GEAR Skate Blog

NEW BOARDS – The CHIMERA Series – Artwork by Sketchy Adam

NEW BOARDS featuring original artwork by Sketchy Adam! Officially dubbed “The Chimera Series” Available EXCLUSIVELY at gearskateboards.com and at Rise Surf Shop (106 Dixie Dr, Clute, TX) on September 16th, 2022. Follow Sketchy Adam on Instagram: Minds: Original song written and performed by Guymon Adams for GEAR Skateboards.…

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The Great Egret Skate Deck – PROMO VIDEO

Check out the PROMO video for our newest skate deck “The Great Egret” featuring GEAR team skater Josh Ybarra! Original board graphic by SketchyAdam. Music courtesy of Zogthorgven – “Buy More Ammo” (GEAR Remix) Board now available EXCLUSIVELY at RISE SURF skate shop in Clute, TX, and online at gearskateboards.com

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NEW BOARD REVEAL – “The Great Egret” by SketchyAdam

We have finally revealed our newest board graphic for 2022! “The Great Egret” featuring original artwork by SketchyAdam! Follow him on Instagram at and on Minds at Team rider Josh Ybarra was the first to see the finished product and set it up at the new local skate…

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Crypto Payments Temporarily Unavailable

Well, we were extremely excited when we could use Coinbase Commerce to accept crypto payments. Unfortunately, the website plugin that facilitates those transactions has experienced some weird glitches in recent updates, and was pulled from the market. We are looking into other options for accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other…

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NEW LOCAL SKATE SHOP! – RISE SURF CO (Video)

NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO — “NEW LOCAL SKATE SHOP! – RISE SURF CO.” GEAR Skateboards is stoked to welcome the new local skate & surf shop to town — RISE SURF CO. located at 106 Dixie Drive in Clute, TX! Expect more videos featuring the new shop as our local skate…

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BOARD SETUP with Liberty Richo (VIDEO)

Get to know the GEAR skate crew in this FIRST in a series of board setup videos! Liberty Richo rides an 8.25 GEAR skate deck, with Thunder trucks, Slime Ball wheels, Spitfire Burner bearings, and Shorty’s hardware.

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GEAR SKATEBOARDS – 2021 UPDATE! [VIDEO]

Long overdue GEAR Skateboards 2021 video update! Check it out! Where have we been? What have we been doing? What’s next for GEAR Skateboards? Our website is back online, new video content in the works, and NEW PRODUCT coming in 2022! – Visit our website and check out the online…

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Now Accepting Bitcoin and other Crypto Payments, courtesy of Coinbase!

We are extremely excited to announce that we can now accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on our online Shop! With the increasing popularity of cryptos, this feature has been requested many times over the years. And now thanks to Coinbase Commerce, we can finally accept four of the top cryptocurrencies:…

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FINALLY: the GEAR Skateboards website is back!

It has been close to 2 years since we went offline, first for a short personal hiatus from the biz, but then stayed offline due to the stupid COVID related supply chain problems. But now WE ARE BACK and at least have a limited amount of basic GEAR product available…

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