As skateboarders, we have all had that Uncle, Neighbor, or onlooker at the skate park tell us “when I was your age I had a Natas board” or something of that nature applied to their favorite skateboarder of the time. Being a young skateboarder I couldn’t imagine saving a skateboard and NOT skating it! Collecting…
I want to make it clear that the following article is not influenced by working and being an instructor for Goskate.com for the past decade. This is not biased praise just because I work for them but they truly are a great company and I have always been thankful for all the connections they have…
El Toro High Schools 20 Stair has seen many years of body hucking and carcass tossing left and right. Anyone that comes to pull something off at this spot means business. And more often than not people leave unsuccessful and broke off. There are however a handful of tricks that have been pulled off and engraved…
We live in an age where skateboard footage and video parts are a dime a dozen. Where every day your mind is flooded by instagram video parts and gnarly footage that despite how groundbreaking it is you forget about it the next day because it gets overwritten by something else. Its just to much and…
Phoenix Am is a legendary contest that is a not only a tradition in Arizona but a staple in the skateboard industry in general. Every year the biggest brands on earth and the best am skateboarders in the world gather in the desert to skate one of the most important skateboard contests there is. This contest…
Skateboarders are artists, crafters, entrepreneurs, musicians and more. We all have a set skill of never giving up and pursuing something till we “land it” or accomplish it. We have this drive within us to make things happen. A lot of skateboarders run their own businesses and sometimes its not always in skateboarding. Here is…
This skateboarding toddler is gaining an international reputation for his skills after just a few months on the board. Wyatt, only 22 months old, has been learning to skate alongside his three siblings at the Young Gun Skate School afterschool care programme in Auckland. Instructor Simon Thorp said Wyatt “pretty much learnt to skate and…
We all love to mix things in one way or another. It keeps things fresh, interesting and exciting! Wether it be non skate related brands we like or other things such as,comic books, movies, television, you name it! The following are four of the coolest current skateboard deck collaborations going on right now in the industry.…
Two words: plexiglass skateboard. The folks at Braille Skateboarding have an open challenge to their fans—that they’ll try to skate anything you want to send them (if they think it’s possible.) Their definition of possible is pretty broad, though. In this video, a fan sends them an awesome-looking, but pretty perilous, clear plastic skateboard. It…
By McKenna Marsden There’s more than one kind of skateboarding. Longboard dancing, which involves doing actual dance steps on a moving longboard, is taking off with some girls in Korea—and while it may be lower impact than trick-heavy skateboarding, there’s no denying there’s some serious skill and finesse going on here. Hyo Joo Ko (you…