Plan B Skateboards
Plan B Skateboards is one of the worlds most popular brands of skateboards. The company is committed to producing high quality boards with some amazing graphics and designs. Plan B also has quite a history about when it was started and how it has recently made a come back. It also has many very popular pro skaters that ride for the team like Ryan Sheckler and Danny Way, who is currently one of the owners.
Plan B skateboards are one of the most popular brands of skateboards for a reason. They make their decks out of the best wood in order to create a quality product. Plan B not only sells decks but they sell wheels, clothing and more. Thought is put into every board that is designed and their board graphics are some of the best in the industry.
Plan B was started in 1991 by Mike Ternasky. The company was made of many of the best pro skaters of the time and gained momentum as a great company very quickly, the Plan B team was known as one of the most influential skate teams of the early nineties. That moment was carried all the way through 1994 until Ternasky was tragically killed in a car accident. The news greatly affected all of the Plan B team and even through the best efforts of Danny Way and Colin McKay, who took over ownership, to keep Plan B together, Plan B soon disappeared from the scene. The connection of Mike Ternasky's tragedy to the name Plan B was too great to continue the company. Plan B disappeared from the scene for 10 years, then in 2005 Danny Way and Colin Mckay started the company back up by again building it with the industries top skaters. Plan B is once again near the top of the best skateboarding brands and best skateboarding teams. Their pro riders are Danny Way, Colin Mckay, PJ Ladd, Ryan Gallant, Brian Wenning, Pat Duffy, Paul Rodriguez, Jereme Rodgers and Ryan Sheckler.
In this years 2008 X Games Danny way put on one of the most spectacular performances of all time in the big air competition. On Way's second attempt he crashed his feet and shins into the coping on the way down in brutal fashion. No one thought he would be able to continue but in true Danny Way fashion he stood up and walked off the ramp. Not only that, he got back up on top of the ramp to finish out his last 3 big air attempts. Reports later concluded that Danny had broken his foot on that 2nd attempt, but then went on to land attempts 3 and 5 with a broken foot. Danny ended up walking away with the silver medal. Ryan Sheckler took home the gold medal in the street skate competition in the same x games.
As a company, Plan B has been through many changes, some very bad and some very good. Now Plan B Skateboards is one of the worlds greatest skateboard companies and greatest skateboarding teams.
