About Cowtown Skates

Cowtown Skates Calgary is a very small shop that stocks products that are difficult to source in the Prairies and Southern Rockies. Started by a group of skaters and past employees of late Royal Board Shop. We're here to support the local skateboard racing scene, and currently sell online, and in person at local events. With your support hopefully we can grow and better support our scene and the riders we care so much about.

Aaron Christensen, Anna O'Neill and Paul Kent have been active members of the Calgary downhill skate community since 2005. They organized local group rides and skate clinics but it wasn't until they partnered with Royal Board Shop before things took off for the Calgary Longboard scene. Each of them gained experience working for Royal, and racing professionally and even manufacturing products for companies like Landyachtz. They organized the Paskapoo Downhill Rodeo skateboard racing event held at COP between 2007 and 2013. They also set up and taught at Royals wildly popular Wednesday evening skate clinics. Aaron moved into manufacturing. Anna became a Sales rep for Landyachtz, and would qualify for the roller games in 2022 and Paul transitioned into long distance skating and helped build a new genre of skateboarding while collecting a few world titles and records that would stand for over a decade. 

In 2020 Royal Board Shop closed and the community was out a place to get equipment. There was no way to make small purchases in a convenient way as a single pack of bushings would still cost quite a lot to be shipped from Vancouver or from across the boarder.

In 2023 the three were at a skate competition in BC and they decided the best thing for the community was to open a small "Not a Real Shop" catering to the local skate scene specializing in the items that are hard to find at the box shops or local Snowboard shop. If this initiative grows naturally we will begin to consider opening a brick and mortar in central Calgary. 

Please take a look at our inventory and let us know if you need anything. We also do special orders and our list of Vendors is growing week by week. 

Thank you for your time and support.