The Beginnings | 21 Years of Loaded Boards | #1 of 4 

I feel this is something that enthusiasts like me really need to listen to and enjoy. You've worked so much, grinding everything you've aknowledged and putting always so much effort in creating something that stands out in the whole market. Thank you for all you've done and all you're still doing for us folks out there, love you all.

I have my original loaded dervish, and dervish sama. I grew up riding some of the hills the OG whirling dervish video was filmed. What a great video. I started out on the sector 9 cosmic series. And the sidewinder. Man this whole video hit home.

Very nice & informative, I started on a Loaded Dervish Sama, captivated by your edits 🤩 and now it's great to know the story behind Loaded!

Don, you did emulate snowboarding and it became so much more

Happy anniversary 🥳🎉. Thanks so much for sharing all those storys!

congratulations for everything you have created over these years. From our brief chats over the years and from the information on Loaded that I have followed with passion from the beginning, I had gotten the wrong idea of ​​what was behind the brand, of Don, Pablo and also of the roles. Thank you for sharing your story dears. a hug from Italy 🇮🇹

I still have my Vanguard from 2008, I believe, Still have the ABEC 11 wheels too! I bought it from my friend in High School and have always loved it. It even got ran over by a car and the only damage to it was one of the trucks snapped in half! All the Adam & Adam videos got me and my buddy hooked, always wanted a Dervish.

Thanks for doing this video! Still rocking my ‘08 Dervish and ‘09 Dancer. I can’t begin to express how hyped I was for a new video back in the day! I remember downloading the song used in the whirling dervish video and listening to it like I knew what I was doing lol Thank you to Adam Colton too, you are the shit!

Yes. Thank you.

This was great! I understand there would be extra work, but i would love some accompanying photos of the early boards they were referencing.

Coming back to longboarding next summer inshAllah. I'd like to buy Dervish Sama mainly because of that old video of Dervish boards with nice music onit.

Still have my vertically laminated oak Vanguard. I think I bought it from Daddy’s in late 2002/early 2003. Still ride it.

WE LOVE YOU ❤❤❤

NYC is an awesome place for longboarding

i do hope to see more innovation in trucks, especially in one that has adjustability in hanger width along with angle. something that can be 'tuned' for LP pumping and even downhill. so far it seems to be done in wedging/dewedging or an expensive bracket, but if all that can be done on a 'stock' style truck with no additional hardware, it'd be a real game changer

Do you think you will ever make electric skateboards again ? I think esk8 racing could surpass downhill racing in popularity due to not needed hills. I bought the loaded ride unlimited race kit and loved it, wish it did not die off.

Thank you for existing Loaded

As i have gotten older i have really gotten into surfskating like carver and such its low impact and your feet dont have to push . Where i would love to see it go is lower to the ground but with still that double pivot kind of truck.

Still rocking the original DERV

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QUESTION - Would you recommend people cutting, or having cut, that key hole to the larger size on already released dervish boards?

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Why there never was a 720p Whirling Dervishes video?

Where's Adam? Lol

I've had happen what happened in the thumbnail of this video. Vanguard happened to be fine. It rolled away like nothing happened, really.

They had the symtail months in advance

the deck that needs tweaked is the Bolsa surfskate. it's too narrow and needs to be at least 10 inches wide and the flared up wheel wells are too pronounced and the 70 mm wheels get major wheel bite. Would work better with Love Handle wheels and just a little tweaking to the deck. It seems like it was rushed to market to cash in on the surfskate thing a couple of years ago when it looked like surfskate was going to get big and I knew it was not going to and just a passing trend. Loaded try to do a cash grab with Carver and it's a failure. relieve Carver and do a surfskate right that is at least 10 inches wide and tone down the flared up wheel wells that are uncomfortable on the feet. I could spend a half hour on that deck and make it perfect and also rout some channels on the bottom and wide wheel wells like that of down hill decks. The Bolsa was poorly engineered and again seems to have been rushed to market for the surfskate cash grab thing of a couple of years ago. Loaded could get this right but this version is a complete miss

"motorized bearings?!" apparently Ari's loaded...

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love the history here

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