COntributors
Robert was born and raised in Germany and started skating in 1985. He moved to the US for work in 1999 and started collecting in 2002. His collection is focused on anything H-Street, early 90’s Powell Peralta and some other gems. Deckaid invited Robert to show some of his collection at the DC (2017) and Hoboken (2018) shows, and he’s traveled with the family to the Chicago (2019) and Tampa (2020) shows to support Deckaid’s fundraising efforts and show his love for skateboarding. He would love to see the Deckaid show move to the west coast and Europe in the future.
Robert Albrecht
John Arbuckle
John has had the skate nerd bug ever since he saw his first video, The Reason, in 1999. Although he came up during the Flameboy/Wet Willy era, John has developed a deep appreciation for skateboarding’s past. He started seriously collecting skate videos after moving to Long Island in 2013. His VHS hoarding eventually evolved to boards and, thanks to the influence of Bobshirt and other collectors, his apartment now looks like a Deckaid show, covered wall to wall with 90s popsicles. John would like to thank Tim and Sarah for all that they do for the skate community. He has 3 Deckaid shows under his belt so far and looks forward to many more in the future.
Tim is the co-founder of Deckaid, and runs Bobshirt.com, “a clunky, low-tech website about skateboarding in the 90's.” He began collecting 90s-centric skateboards in the early 2000s, which started with the 1st board he owned (Dune baby), and then filled a closet… and then two closets, and then a basement… Eventually, but not surprisingly, he was pressured to share his collection with the public to benefit a community skate park. He has exhibited his collection in various forms at every Deckaid to date.
Tim Anderson
Since first hearing the local junior-high kids thunderously roaring down his street in 1987, Tom has been obsessed with skateboards and skateboarding. His obsession for deck shapes & graphics from his favorite eras lead to his involvement in the skateboard collecting community. He loves studying the nuances of the boards he’s collected and nerding out with fellow collectors over those details. In his early 40s now, Tom is still skating as often as he can, riding custom, hand-shaped boards inspired by favorite shapes from his collection. Tom was a major contributor at the Deckaid Boston show in 2016.
Thomas Atencio
Chris Davis grew up skateboarding in the mid 90s in Trenton, NJ. His skateboarding was heavily influenced by the Philadelphia scene. Chris’ collection portrays that influence. His collection consists of mid 90s to late 90s east coast companies like Illuminati, Silverstar, Zoo York, Alien Workshop and Habitat. Chris has collaborated on two Deckaid shows, the Philadelphia event and the Hoboken event.
Chris Davis (Pictured right with Kerry Getz)
Skateboard Enthusiast / Unprofessional Skateboarder, founded Conscience Skateboards in 2001 as a creative outlet and fundraising effort for public skateparks in Milwaukee, WI. He is currently working on resurrecting the legendary Turf Skatepark due to reopen in fall of 2022. Jesse has been obsessively curating a collection of boards, wheels, stickers and artwork since the mid 90’s. It started with simply saving his broken boards and has turned into a massive collection he holds an odd mix of both pride and embarrassment towards. He has a special focus on early 90’s due to the nostalgic time he found his identity within skate culture. Has slowed down on board collecting considerably and shifted focus to building the world’s largest wall of individual skateboard wheels. Proud to represent Midwest skateboarding by taking part in Deckaid Chicago.
Jesse Geyboy
At first glance, Nick exhibits all the textbook signs of a moderate to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder; however, his mania is sincere in that he genuinely desires to collect, preserve, and occasionally showcase the good, the bad, and the ugly of this Americana life—so much so that he staked his claim early on as “The Skateboard Museum,” with an extensive collection spanning decades of decks, tees, zines, original art, and other ephemera. Portions of this collection have since gone trotting about the globe, most notably so in the "Beautiful Losers” exhibition, earning him a notoriety as a VIP in the eyes of the Smithsonian Institute, where he’s since weaseled his way behind the scenes to see all the pop culture treasures not on public display. Currently, Nick works for Super7 and is a partner in StrangeLove Skateboards, ensuring his ability to continue playing with toys well into his golden years. —Sean Cliver
Nick Halkias (Pictured left with Jaime Owens)
Alan Keller (Pictured right with Robert Albrecht)
Contributer to Deckaid D.C. (2017)
Kevin has been collecting skateboard magazines since he first found skateboarding in 1986 in middle America; Kansas to be exact. He's one of the folks that has worked inside the skateboard industry his entire life. Local Kansas skate shop, to opening this own shop in Colorado during college, to working for TumYeto in the late 90's, to writing for most of the magazines, to running a skate dvd distribution company. In 2015, he took his magazine collecting to a whole new level by founding Look Back Library - the skateboard magazine preservation society. They build magazine libraries all over the world from donated collections and also archive all printed skateboard material at their HQ in San Diego. Kevin featured a collection of covers at the Chicago Deckaid in 2019 that focused on deck graphics. In 2020, for the Tampa Deckaid, he provided a display that showcased covers from all the winners of Tampa Pro. He plans to continue to incorporate a magazine exhibit at future Deckaid events.
Kevin Marks
Craig is a 44 year old skate rat that loves every aspect of skateboarding, so it was a natural thing for him to collect decks. He has always been a collector of stuff, but particularly boards, because of his obsession around 2006 when he found the internet. Ever since then he has been trying to recreate the small skate shop that he went to as a kid. The shop specialized in World/blind/101/ plan b stuff, and that’s pretty much all he collects. Craig was really honored to be able to show his collection at the Boston Deckaid show and to be apart of something good. It made him feel like he hasn’t been wasting his time and money with this hobby he has. Craig loves skateboarding.
Craig Paiva
Richard has been collecting since 1994. He got more serious about collecting in 1999 after he graduated college and had more disposable income. Rich set a goal to get all of Tony Hawk's decks in 2006 and completed that in 2019. He also collects the decks he skated. There are quite a few other decks he collects because of the skater and or artist that made the graphics. Rich was asked to be a part of Deckaid Chicago in 2019 and instantly said yes. He says it was truly a pleasure to be a part of this amazing event and organization, and he looks forward to being a part of Deckaid however he can in the future.
Richard Shroeder
Matt Terwilliger
Contributer to Deckaid N.J. (2018)
Kevin’s board collection started in the early 2000’s when he bought a couple boards because he liked the graphics on them and actually put them behind some furniture in his room so he wouldn’t skate them. Over the years he bought more boards, mainly Habitat and East Coast boards and his room had boards all over the walls. Kevin’s first Deckaid show was the Exit Skateshop Philly show in which he had one board on the wall. His next one was the NJ Skateshop Hoboken show where he had around 30 boards or so on the wall. Kevin enjoys filming skateboarding and has contributed footage to a bunch of different projects for NJ Skateshop and homie videos like Totally Nector. He also filmed and edited two videos for Skatejawn Magazine Bruns and Bruns 2. He thinks the Deckaid shows are awesome events- it’s cool to see all the old boards in one place it’s like being able to time travel back to an old skateshop.
Kevin Winters (Center with Steve Lenardo & Chris Davis)