Opened in 1987 by Bones Brigade member and McTwist inventor Mike McGill, McGill's Skateshop on Encinitas Boulevard is a core skate shop built by a pro skateboarder whose 540-degree aerial rotation trick reshaped vert skating worldwide. The shop stocks roughly 600 decks — minis, longboards, street, vert, pool, and vintage shapes including 10-by-30-inch Powell Peralta boards — alongside the complete hard-goods selection at fellow Encinitas board retailers like Encinitas Surfboards. McGill relocated from a nearly three-decade run on South Coast Highway 101 to the Moonlight Marketplace complex at 140 Encinitas Boulevard in early 2023, landing next to Lazy Acres Market. The Bones Brigade connection — the 1980s Powell Peralta team that included Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, and Tommy Guerrero — gives the shop a direct lineage to the most influential skate crew in the sport's history, a pedigree shared on the local retail map only by Rose Street Skateshop. Full hard-goods inventory covers Independent and Thunder trucks, Spitfire and Bones wheels, Bronson and Bones Swiss bearings, plus Pro-Tec and Triple Eight certified helmets and pads meeting ASTM F1492 and CPSC 1203 impact standards.