I always played eith them as a kid but always borrowed them from my frienfI saw a single tech deck left in the toysrus next to the Legos which I was there tu but. The tech deck was 5 dollars, and to this day I still have it, and use it for nostalgia. After years of using the original tech deck, and using a small homemade box to store my stuff from the others I had bought, and then I searched tech deck on my computer and found mike schneiders rendezvous 5 video and was hooked. After about a year of using my tech deck, I bought a Holywood deck, and lived it. I ended up quitting because I was bullied and sort of lost friends because I had a stupid tech decks. About 4 months later I found my old setup, and fell in love again. I bought some g4 wheels, as well as new trucks and tape for my board. Then I got better boards later on, and managed to get to rendezvous 13, and had so much fun! I couldn't do any tricks besides the Ollie, and someone still filmed me, and taught me how to kick flip, and hung out with me all day.