Spanish Skate Brands: Jart, Sancheski, Miller and More (2026)

Ask about Spanish skate brands and almost everyone says Jart and not much else. It makes sense: Jart is the one you see most in shops and at contests. But behind it there is a longer story, and quite a concentrated one, packed into one corner of the map. A good part of the skate gear made in Spain comes from two places in Gipuzkoa just a few kilometres apart: Irún, where Sancheski has been since 1934, and Oiartzun, where HLC has the Jart factory.

Here we go through the brands that are really Spanish: where they are, what they do, whether they manufacture in Spain or abroad and which skaters ride for them. We also talk about clothing, about who builds the skateparks and about some brands that are often assumed to be Spanish and are not.

What the skate industry looks like in Spain

Spain has a lot of skate culture but few factories. Most small brands design here and order their boards from workshops abroad, as happens almost everywhere in Europe. Making decks takes presses, moulds, Canadian maple and enough volume for the numbers to work, and in Europe only a few factories do it on a large scale.

One of those factories is in Gipuzkoa. HLC SB Distribution produces decks, wheels and trucks in Oiartzun, for its own brands and for American brands that license it for Europe. That is why, when you buy a Plan B or Flip deck in a European shop, there is a good chance it came from there.

The other pole is older and smaller: Sancheski, in Irún, which started out making skis and roller skates and was one of the first companies in Europe to put together skateboards.

Sancheski and Slide: the oldest brand

Francisco Sánchez Espinosa founded Sancheski in Irún in 1934. The name joins his surname and the word ski, because the first thing it made was skis and sports gear: roller skates, balls, gym clothing, a bit of everything.

In the mid-60s, the family saw photos in American magazines of surfers riding down the asphalt on a board with wheels. They mounted the axle of a hockey roller skate on a piece of wood and that was their first skateboard. The company presents itself as the first skateboard brand in Spain and one of the pioneers in Europe.

In the 70s came the Top Naranja, an orange plastic skateboard that was one of the most popular in Spain and a very common present on Día de Reyes (Three Kings’ Day, 6 January, when Spanish kids traditionally get their gifts) well into the 80s. Plenty of people who are fifty today learned to skate on one. Later the brand made wooden decks with graphics from the time, like the one in the photo.

Slide, Sancheski’s surfskate

In 2008 Sancheski got into surfskate under the name Slide. At first it worked with the Australian surfboard brand Hot Buttered and with manufacturers in Taiwan, and the first truck was designed by Jack Hu, a Taiwanese surfer and inventor.

Today the board design and testing are done in Irún, and the truck parts are made in Taiwan. If you are searching for a “surfskate made in Spain”, it helps to know that nuance: the board and the concept are from Irún, the metal truck comes from Asia, like the trucks of almost every surfskate brand in the world. Sancheski is still a family company.

If you are not sure whether a surfskate or a regular skateboard suits you better, we explain it calmly in surfskate vs skateboard vs longboard.

Jart and HLC: the Oiartzun factory

Jart is the best-known Spanish deck brand outside Spain. It was created by the three Iraola brothers (Igor, Iban and Ander), from the Bidasoa area, in the early 2000s. The family already worked with wood. They saw American boards in a local surf shop and decided to make their own. They started in a garage, with presses, moulds and screen-printing machines they built themselves, when they were 19, 21 and 23 years old.

That garage grew into HLC SB Distribution, which today has its factory and offices in the Lintzirin industrial estate in Oiartzun. You can find the full story of the brand, its team and its models on our Jart profile.

A few facts to give you an idea of the size:

• It makes boards for other brands. HLC produces and distributes in Europe the decks of Plan B, Flip and Sk8mafia under licence from the American brands, as well as models for other brands such as Element.
• It makes its own wheels and trucks. After the pandemic it set up two new plants, one for urethane for wheels and one for aluminium casting for trucks. It had tried before several times without success.
• It bought a wheel factory in the United States. HLC holds the majority of AEND, a wheel manufacturer based in Texas.
• It turned over almost 30 million euros in 2021. In April 2022 the investment fund Peninsula Capital bought a little over 60% of the company. The Iraolas are still in it, with Igor as CEO.
• Wood and process. It works with cold-pressed Canadian maple and uses CNC machines to cut and shape the decks.

The Jart team

Jart has always had an international team, but with a strong Spanish presence. Its best-known pro is Danny León, from Móstoles. The current team also includes Alain Kortabitarte, from the Basque Country and an Olympian at Paris 2024, and Joan Galceran, from Barcelona. The Portuguese Gustavo Ribeiro, one of the best street skaters in the world, has also ridden Jart decks.

In this 2020 video the team tours the Basque Country and stops by the factory.

The other brands in the HLC group

Besides Jart, HLC owns several brands of its own. Each one aims at a different kind of skater:

Brand	What it does	Who it is for
Iron Trucks	Skateboard trucks	Street and park skating. Made in Oiartzun
Yow	Surfskates and surfskate trucks	Surfers and people who want to carve
Cruzade	Decks and complete boards with an 80s-90s look	Anyone who wants a skateboard with a retro feel
Tricks	Simple complete boards	Beginners and kids
Long Island	Longboards	Cruising and getting around, born in 2012 in Irún
Mosaic	Bearings	Street and park skating

Yow deserves a paragraph of its own, because it is one of the best-selling surfskate brands in Europe. Its front truck is called Meraki and tries to imitate the turn of a surfboard. In 2022 it launched the Ura wheels, the first ones it made entirely in its own factory. It has models signed by surfers such as Aritz Aranburu, from Zarautz.

Mosaic and Player Skateboards are linked to Barcelona: both were founded by the skater Tristán Grijalbo. Player came out in 2021 alongside HLC, with veterans of the city such as Dani Jenks and Carlos Cardeñosa.

Miller Division: surfskate from the north

Miller Division was born in 2012. It was founded by Iván García, a former professional skater who handles the product, and the businessman Ricardo Garrido. The brand is based in northern Spain, between the mountains and the Cantabrian coast, and you can see it in its style: lots of surfskate, longboards and cruisers.

Its signature is the XRKP truck, made of aluminium, with rubber bushings instead of springs and an inverted kingpin. It sells in more than 30 countries and has models signed by riders such as Pablo Solar. Besides surfskate, it makes regular skateboards, downhill longboards and cruisers.

Nomad: boards from Zaragoza

Nomad is from Zaragoza and started around the year 2000, when a group of friends began by printing T-shirts and ended up making boards. Today it has decks, complete boards, wheels, bearings (the NMD line), clothing and accessories, and its own shop in the city centre. It sells in more than 20 countries.

The brand presents itself as the first skate brand in Spain. It depends on how you look at it: Sancheski was making skateboards decades earlier, but it was a general sports equipment company. If we talk about brands made by skaters, with their own graphics and team, Nomad is among the first.

Hydroponic: Mataró, surf and skate

Hydroponic was born in 2002. It was started by a couple of friends from Barcelona after spending a year in Australia, and it is based in Mataró, about 30 km north of the city. It began with clothing and then added decks, complete boards, longboards, surfskates, wheels and bearings.

From the start the idea was to make a surf and skate brand with a European style, not a copy of the American ones. It has had a pro model deck for the skater Fran Martínez and sells in several countries in Europe and Asia. It is a brand with a strong presence in big sports stores, so it is easy to find.

Sour: Swedish, but with a home in Barcelona

Sour (originally Sour Solution) often appears in lists of Spanish brands, and that is only half right. It was founded in 2014 by the Swede Björn Holmenäs, who was team manager at the Swedish brand Sweet, and several riders who left with him: Erik J. Pettersson, Daniel Spängs and Kristofer Hallgren.

Almost from the start the brand has lived in Barcelona: it has its warehouse, its shop and most of its videos there. The team is still almost entirely Swedish. It has no connection to Pontus Alv or to Polar, although people often mix them up. You can find everything on the Sour profile.

Clothing: Spanish brands with skate roots

There are more brands in clothing, although few are pure skate. These have a real connection to the scene:

• Kaotiko (Barcelona, 1999). It started as a multi-brand shop with customers closely tied to skating and surfing, who ended up asking for its own clothing. Today it is an urban clothing brand with its own shops, also outside Spain. More streetwear than skate, but with that origin.
• Damage (Madrid). A clothing brand made by skaters, born around 2013. It makes caps, T-shirts and sporty-cut garments, and works with Madrid skaters such as Gabi Ferrero and Adrián del Campo. It has distribution in Japan.
• Macba Life (Barcelona). It started around 2016 as an Instagram and YouTube account about the MACBA plaza, the city’s most famous spot. Its founder, Alex Braza, drove the #SaveMacba campaign when there was an attempt to restrict skating in the plaza. Today it sells clothing, decks and grip tape, and in 2024 it made a collection with Volcom.
• Metropollie. An online deck and clothing brand launched in 2020 by the businessman Fernando Gárate. The name combined metropolis and ollie, and it manufactured in Spain and Portugal. In 2026 its website is no longer active.

In Seville there is Trouble Skateboards, a shop with its own brand since 2014 that sells decks, grip tape and clothing. It is a good example of something very common in Spain: neighbourhood shops that end up releasing their own boards through a workshop elsewhere.

What about Spanish skate shoes?

There are none. Spain has a lot of footwear industry, but no Spanish brand makes technical skate shoes with a team, signature models and reinforcement for the ollie. The ones you see at skateparks are from foreign brands: Vans, Nike SB, adidas, Etnies, DC, New Balance Numeric and similar. If you are looking for shoes, we have our comparison of the best skate shoes.

Who builds the skateparks in Spain

Public skateparks are put out to tender by each city council, and many projects are won by general construction firms. But there are specialised Spanish companies, some founded by skaters:

• Vulcano Skateparks (Mollet del Vallès, Barcelona). It designs and builds sprayed-concrete parks. It has projects in Catalonia, France, Ireland and Italy, and in 2026 it is in charge of the new skatepark in Castelldefels. It grew out of the Barcelona DIY scene.
• ZUT Skateparks (Basque Country). Its first job was the bowl at La Kantera, in Bilbao, and since then it has built more than a hundred parks in several countries.
• CopinRamps (Valencia). It has built parks in Gandia, Bétera, Arinaga and Lloret de Mar, among others. In 2025 it won the contract for the Torrelavega skatepark: about 2,000 m² of concrete with a bowl of almost 2.80 m, for a little over 370,000 euros.
• Industrias Agapito (Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza). It does not build in concrete: it makes prefabricated ramps and modules, very common in small towns and sports centres.

In design, the architecture studio SCOB, from Barcelona, stands out. It is the author of the city’s “landskates”, such as the ones at Mar Bella and Via Favència, parks that blend into the plaza instead of being a closed-off track.

If you are looking for somewhere to skate, you have our directory of skateparks in Spain (in Spanish).

Spanish skaters who ride these brands

• Danny León (Móstoles, 1994). He started at 9 at the skatepark across from his house. At Tokyo 2020 he finished ninth in park and missed the final by 76 hundredths of a point. In 2024 he won the Dubai stop of the world circuit and went to his second Games in Paris. He is a Jart pro.
• Alain Kortabitarte (Basque Country, 2005). A Jart rider, Spanish champion and Olympian in park at Paris 2024.
• Joan Galceran (Barcelona, 1992). One of the veteran names on the Jart team.
• Naia Laso (Bermeo, 2008). She finished seventh in park at Paris 2024 at 15 and won in Dubai the same year as Danny León.
• Egoitz Bijueska (Bilbao). In March 2026, at 15, he was crowned park world champion in São Paulo.

At Paris 2024 Spain sent six skaters: Danny León and Alain Kortabitarte in men’s park, Naia Laso and Julia Benedetti in women’s park, and Daniela Terol and Natalia Muñoz in women’s street. We covered it in the article on skateboarding at the Olympic Games.

Summary table: Spanish skate brands

Brand	What it does	Where	Since	Made in Spain?
Sancheski / Slide	Surfskate (formerly skateboards and skis)	Irún	1934 (skate from the 60s)	Design and testing in Irún; trucks in Taiwan
Jart	Decks, complete boards, wheels	Oiartzun	Early 2000s	Yes, at the HLC factory
Iron	Trucks	Oiartzun	HLC group	Yes
Yow	Surfskates	Gipuzkoa	HLC group	Yes, with its own wheels
Miller Division	Surfskate, longboards, decks	Northern Spain	2012	Designed in Spain
Nomad	Decks, wheels, bearings, clothing	Zaragoza	Around 2000	No public data
Hydroponic	Clothing, decks, surfskates	Mataró	2002	No public data
Sour	Decks, clothing, videos	Barcelona (Swedish origin)	2014	No public data
Kaotiko	Urban clothing	Barcelona	1999	No public data
Macba Life	Clothing, decks, content	Barcelona	Around 2016	No public data

Brands that look Spanish and are not

• Sour: Swedish with a base in Barcelona, as we have seen.
• Rave Skateboards: some Spanish skater rides for it, but it is French.
• Capsule Skateboards: it has Spanish riders and offices in Cyprus.
• Madrid Skateboards: the name is misleading, it is a California brand.
• Liebre: a longboard brand from Chile.

To keep exploring

• Full Jart profile and Sour profile.
• The best skateboard deck brands, with the most important American and European ones.
• How to choose a skateboard deck and what a deck is made of.
• Complete longboard guide.
• History of skateboarding, to see where Spain fits in.
• What is a truck in the dictionary.