Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta Instagram – Another very rare board from my collection and the story behind it: Right after the collapse of the Zephyr team and months before getting sponsored by Gordon&Smith I was sponsor-less, as were many Z Boys at that time. Bob Biniak had just hooked up with Sims and said to me one day; “You need to get off your Zephyr board, you need a board with a kick-tail for the pools we’re riding. He then handed me a flat wooden Sims board and said; “Go home to your kitchen, boil a pot of water like you’re gonna make spaghetti, drop the tail in the pot and boil it over night. In the morning take the board into your garage, clamp it from the middle into a vice, tie a piece of rope around the tail, pull the rope as hard as you can until the tail bends and then tie the rope to a hook in the wall. Let it sit for a week. After that you’ll have a board with a kick-tail. I did exactly as Bob said; I dropped the board into a pot and boiled it overnight. Next I clamped it into a vice, pulled back the tail and tied it to a wall. A week later, I untied it, opened the vice and there it was, a board with, if not an actual angled kick-tail, a tail with a really strong and effective warp. I mounted it with Bennett Trucks and Sims Pure Juice Wheels. Later that day we got word of a new pool way out at the far end of the San Fernando Valley in an area of old farm houses and orange groves. We were told a 90 year old woman lived on the property but she was hard of hearing so sneaking in wasn’t a problem. Biniak, Alva and I drove out in my VW Squareback, found the place, hopped the fence and encountered what I still consider today to be the best backyard pool I’ve ever ridden. We called it the Devonshire Pool because it was the Devonshire exit off the 405 freeway. That Sims board rode incredibly well and was a huge step up from my Zephyr and the tail worked just as Biniak had said. Shortly thereafter Gordon&Smith came to me with a great offer. At my contract signing Larry Gordon asked me what I’d like to call my new skateboard model, to which I replied; “Why don’t we call it the Warptail?” | Posted on 23/May/2023 20:46:54