Birdhouse Skateboards

Birdhouse Skateboards is the kind of company that is a dream come true for two professional skateboarders. Birdhouse skateboarding products include apparel designed by none other than Tony Hawk and Per Welinder as well as equipment featuring the distinct Birdhouse skateboard logo, a number of videos, and oodles of accessories. It is interesting to note that Birdhouse Skateboards not only runs a professional team but also an amateur team which features Tony’s very own son!

Those in search of a Birdhouse skateboard deck will most likely visit the Birdhouse Skateboard official site on the ‘Net and enjoy not only the pictures and news items but also the artwork of the pros. You may choose to purchase complete boards designed by the men who invented Birdhouse Skateboard Company, or you may opt for the individual components, such as the Birdhouse skateboard decks – some claim that there are cheap Birdhouse skateboards, but expense is in the eye of the buyer – which feature the unmistakable Birdhouse Skateboards graphics, wheels, and of course apparel galore. To many in the skateboarding scene the company logo is much like a calling card, and in many ways a skateboarder with Birdhouse insignia is considered to be part of the “in crowd.”

When you consider that the old Birdhouse skateboard decks were in part fashioned because of Per Welinder, you might not think much about it – until you realize that Almost Skateboards’ legendary Rodney Mullen was beaten by Welinder, finally offering this skateboarder the national attention he warranted because of his skill and tenacity. Yet any information about Birdhouse Skateboards would be incomplete without the main name associated with the company: Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder without equal in today’s world.

Offering his name for Birdhouse Skateboard shirts, Birdhouse skateboards and trucks,
Birdhouse skateboards retail stores, and also the much coveted limited edition Birdhouse skateboard itself, this legendary skateboarder is renowned in the annals of skateboarding for invention more aerial tricks with a humble deck on wheels than any other pro. At this point in time, Birdhouse Skateboards is just the latest in a long line of professional successes that include videos, books, apparel, and pretty much anything else an athlete could create, endorse, or lend his likeness to. In addition to the Birdhouse Skateboards Company, he also works with charities that seek to help kids from socioeconomic challenged areas to get into skateboarding rather than looking for less positive activities.