https://www.badbillys.com/tags/skate-history/Recent content in Skate History on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/australian-skate-culture-1980s/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/australian-skate-culture-1980s/ <p>Across the Pacific from Southern California, a parallel skate culture was taking shape in the 1980s — smaller in scale, thinner on infrastructure, but no less serious in attitude. The Australian scene that emerged during that decade was shaped less by skatepark design and industry marketing than by the same coastal geography that had already made the country a surfing nation. Understanding that context matters, because it is the world Bad Billy's — Billabong's short-lived 1987 skate sub-label — was built for.</p>