https://www.badbillys.com/tags/quiksilver/Recent content in Quiksilver on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comWed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/surf-to-skate-crossover-80s-brands/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/surf-to-skate-crossover-80s-brands/ <p>Skateboarding did not emerge separately from surfing and then drift toward it. It emerged <em>from</em> it. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, California surfers facing flat spells nailed roller skate wheels to wooden planks and rode sidewalks as a substitute — the activity was called <strong>sidewalk surfing</strong>, and for a decade that name stuck. Early practitioners rode barefoot, mimicked trim lines and cutbacks, and drew their entire vocabulary from wave riding. By the time Hobie and Makaha were producing purpose-built boards and sponsoring competitions in the early 1960s, sidewalk surfing had a commercial ecosystem — one that sat entirely inside the surf industry.</p>