Comments on: Santa Cruz advert featuring Natas Santa Monica Airlines deck

By: Damian

Damian — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:49:35 +0000

I had that deck, it was great. I think it was one of the first to move away from sculpted rails and cut outs (see the santa cruz ones below) and towards the ‘lollypop’ shape that became the norm not too long afterwards. But what do I know!

By: Skater

Skater — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:16:51 +0000

There’s a great video on youtube about the whole SMA/Natas thing here (watch all 4 parts) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXRo4HbQLNk

By: Guy Tomcykowski

Guy Tomcykowski — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:07:40 +0000

Ok here is the scoop, N.H.S. was partners with Rib Lake Plywood, In Marion Wi. They owned the saw mills, They pressed the NHS brands whom NHS dist. for. Titus SMA and Santa Cruz. Rocco tried to take the name SMA world ind. without prior approval and was quickly convinced by some of his lawyers to do some other name. So then came World ind. this never had anything to do with nhs. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things, skateboarding doesn’t always make sense.

By: ME

ME — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:01:45 +0000

Yes, SMA decks were made by NHS, as were/still Santa Cruz. It was Natas himself, that went to Santa Cruz and worked the deal for Skip at SMA, to have NHS press their decks.

No, Steve Rocco, wasn’t in the mix of all that. At that time, I believe was his last few years of running Vision.

By: Dan Mason

Dan Mason — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:07:05 +0000

Isn’t Steve Rocco mixed up in there too?

By: joe_damage

joe_damage — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:03:52 +0000

Isn’t the connection that SMA and Santa Cruz were both manufactured by NHS? The Santa Cruz vids always had Natas in them although that maybe because he rode their wheels.