This year marks the 25th anniversary of legendary skateboard trucks company, Independent. While skateboard trucks are certainly not immediately deemed as punk rock, it is hard to deny the kinship both skateboarding and punk music have shared. Even the timelines for the history of both are nearly identical, going from alternative idea in their respective genres (sports, music), to being associated with outcasts and those differing from mainstream society, to overall social acceptance and part of everyday culture.

Ask any 10 kids that skateboard, or are into punk rock, and more than likely at least 9 of them will tell you of some sort of affiliation they had with the other. Independent trucks have been a constant in the skateboard scene for as long as we can remember, so we salute them on a successful silver anniversary.