Shortly after the movie Back to the Future came out in 1985, my parents gave me a skateboard just like the one in the flick for a birthday present. My good friend Andy fueling really liked my board, and after about two months(when his birthday came) his parents got him a board of his own. Now, I don't exactly remember how, but over the course of the next few years we managed to acquire a few ramps and had strategically placed them throughout our neighborhood. We had a few good friends who would ride until the sun went down, and then do it all over again the next day. One of those friends, Adrian Shreve, was always bragging about his uncle Matt, who was a bad ass skater. For years, this went on. I think we all had this ten foot tall image of him.

I think it was 1993 when I first met Matt Splat. He isn't ten feet tall. He is, however, a skater through and through. I remember back then thinking man, why doesn't this guy have a store. Well fifteen years later, he does. Matt Splatt's Dethbox skateboard supply opened its doors to the public for the first time on 5/1/2008. For the record, I was the first one there. I was there at least thirty seconds before Andy Fueling. I was pretty well beside myself seeing him pull in. What a Flashback. In any case, as I stood there thinking of the past, Andy slipped in and bought a new long board. Dethbox is on the planet-skate or die- Josh