Piso Skateboards: By Skaters, For Skaters.
Piso skateboards is an Indian skateboard brand completely run by skateboarders, for skateboarders. We want to create a happy skateboarding community and provide the best quality skateboard products that match the average skaters wallet in India. The journey so far has been full of adventure and challenges. All those sleepless nights and hard work feel totally worth it, when we see you skateboarders having fun out there with our boards.
What is Piso?
Piso is a story of a bunch of skateboarders from India who got together and dreamt about living the skatelife one day. We risked it all to make this happen. After years of work, fortunately few things clicked & Piso took shape! We do not know where this is going to lead us, but all we know is its going to be worth it! Yep, it is challenging & we are pushing our limits every single day. Lets see what our story unfolds as we keep pushing & our wheels keep rolling!
Why ‘Piso’?Every time we’re skateboarding, we draw a lot of attention from people passing by. Some are intrigued, but most people just cannot wrap their heads around it. They think we’re crazy when they see us fall or whizz past them. In Goan local language(Konkani), the word ‘piso’ literally translates to ‘crazy’. We thought this was perfect!
Our Journey:2013:The Third Eye Tour!Our journey starts back in 2013 with the
Third Eye Tour. It was the first time where skateboarders from all over India came together and were going on a skate trip. A bus full of skateboarders traveling from Bangalore to Goa, skating anything and everything that came in the way. There was so much stoke all around us, it was almost unreal. We had never experienced anything like this in our entire lives!
2014: Goa Local Skateboarding Scene Build.After coming back from the tour, life was never the same again. It was almost like someone had clicked on the refresh button. We knew skateboarding was what we were going to do all our lives. We started with skateboarding camps in Goa to get a local skate scene started. Some days there were no kids and some days there were just one or two kids. But as months became years the number grew.
2015 to 2017: Experimenting with DIY boards.We started making our own skateboards DIY style. We pooled in knowledge from the internet and fellow skateboarders and built our own concrete skateboard press. We rolled out a few skate & cruiser decks. We were all set to launch our own skateboard company. But the reality of the situation was different. Neither were our products of great quality nor was the entire operation economically or logistically viable. We failed several times and even came close to giving up on the idea entirely.
2018: Piso skateboards becomes a reality!!This year fortunately our hardwork, focus and grace worked upon us. Finally! We launched our very own Indian skateboard brand - 'PISO SKATEBOARDS'. Crafted by skaters, for skaters.
2019: Ups and Downs, aah!
This year was filled with so many ups and downs! A year full of lessons. Thank you all for the support and love shown towards our brand. Sorry to keep our website out of stock for most time of the year. We are pushing as hard as we can, so that no one has to wait to grab their hands on the board :).
2020: COVID 19.
Well, this year everyone knows how tough the things were. Fight was for our survival this year. Covid-19 pushed us back in time, had to start again from zero; had to restructure everything for the new world. This one really tested our limits! We are still pushing and figuring out our survival in this challenging phase.
2021: Pandemic Effects :(
Due to the Pandemic, prices of all our raw materials soared up, as a result pricing had to be revised to make everything sustainable. R&D is into works on how to reduce the pricing and to be efficient. Hopefully in coming years prices will come back to normal :).
2022: Piso Reloading.
So it's been 5 years, constantly running and trying to figure out how to run a business and handle accounts. None of us knew anything about business, but now we spend most of our time figuring out all the economics and excel sheets. This year we decided to take a break from everything and go back to our roots, why did we start all this? Are we missing out on something? Have we become too much involved into strategies and always thinking about sustainability and growth.? The answer was Yes.
It was time to introspect and spend some time in solitude. It was time we needed to change the way we are running things, and do something more impactful for a wider audience. We took a decision that Piso is not going to limit itself just to skateboards any more, it's going to grow beyond. Yes! New Piso is on its way, Stay tuned for more updates!
2023: New ideas taking Shape!
So as you all know Piso is working on a much broader vision from 2022 onwards. Our full team is chalking out plans to make this happen. The scale is big and its going to take few years to bring our plans into reality. We are constantly striving towards it every single day and making progress. Let us see where this new journey and vision of ours takes us this time :). Our plans will be announced next year.
2024: Presenting you The Piso World.
We finally announced our plans on which we were working for the past 2 years. 'The Piso World project': A world where everybody is invited, does not matter whether you are a kid or an adult! A space for every life to blossom :). To know more about our project you can
click here. To make this project happen we have got all our core members at our headquarters in Goa. We got Kima down, our OG team member Shreyas is back on board to structure everything, we have also added a new team member Meera in the team.
A new world is coming your way! This time crafted by skaters, for the World.
2025: A message from team Piso.
So it's the end of 2025.... After almost a decade our Piso core team is finally together at one place! As always pushing our limits every single day and progressing towards the Piso world vision. This update is straight from the heart of Piso family. After being in the skate scene for almost 10 years, this is what we have to say:
'Piso was never here to just sell skateboards, or to be the best skateboard brand out there. We just wanted to be a happy skateboarding company, sharing joy in the world through skateboarding. Whoever is reading this and has been following us through out our journey or know how to skateboard... Our message is simple - Just have fun with your board! That's all there is :). We don't think there is anything more to skate-life than living it totally. We have been through it all and seen it all. Skateboarding has shown us mirrors. and directed us towards a simple and joyful life. We are at a point that, we don't have any dreams anymore. Life is the dream :), and we want to live it totally while our wheels are rolling. So before our life passes by, our team wants to cherish and share the joy of skateboarding with the world around us. Our whole team bows down to everybody out there who gave us the opportunity to serve and supported us right from day one. Without the support from the community and love from our extended family members (all Piso board owners), nothing could have been possible. It has been our honor!'
Our team - Andy Topo, Vaibhav Rasam, Velister Rodriguez, Astral Boom, Shreyash, Meera Pai, Mystica, Nunkima Ralte, Jewel Paul & Rajat Kosh.
Below are some of our old photographs from when we started out, the quality of images are low but the story is gold!.
