Skaters Willy Akers and Danny Falla featured in 5Boro commercial
New York-based skateboard maker 5Boro has a new commercial featuring riders Willy Akers and Danny Falla skating those rough-brick pyramids in the city.
View ArticleCurren Caples takes the Volcom Damn Am
As amateur skate contests go, they don’t get much bigger than the Volcom Damn Am, which is held each year at the Skatepark of Tampa and serves as the default kickoff of competition season. Although the...
View ArticleThe unlikely path of pro skater Josh Murphy
Most action sports athletes choose early in life which path to pursue–their sport or their academics–and rarely both. But that’s exactly what Denver’s Josh Murphy did. As fellow pro Leo Romero remarks...
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IVI Eyewear talks ‘The Process,’ new spring line
A collaborative effort on the grandest of scales, IVI Eyewear is the brainchild of three sports giants: skateboard mogul Rob Dyrdek, action sports designer Jerome Mage, and Fox Head Inc. chief...
View ArticleHow pro skater Mark Appleyard got his start
Skater Mark Appleyard, 30, has been in the spotlight for quite some time, having starred in the legendary “Apology Series” of Flip videos, “Sorry,” “Really Sorry,” and “Extremely Sorry,” which began...
View ArticleMeet Slovakian pro skater Marek Zaprazny
Not many pro skateboarders hail from as interesting and as far away a place as Slovakia’s Marek Zaprazny. Marek was born and raised in the Eastern European city of Malacky and has been skating since he...
View ArticleThe history of the infamous ‘Skatopia’
Skateboarding and anarchy have always gone somewhat hand in hand, in a sort of grey area on the fringes of socially acceptable behavior. “Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy” is a skate documentary about one...
View ArticleSkateboarder Luan Oliveira of Brazil wins Tampa Pro 2013
Luan Oliveira won the Tampa Pro 2013 with a winning line Skateboarder magazine described as “insane,” saying “This dude killed it so hard!!” Watch the 5-foot-6 skateboarder from Porto Alegre, Brazil,...
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Nyjah Huston wins guitar for Tampa Pro Best Trick victory
What was the prize for winning the 2013 Tampa Pro Best Trick over the weekend? Skateboarder Nyjah Huston of Huntington Beach, California, will be rocking and rolling with a new guitar. Huston, seen in...
View ArticleCurren Caples’ thoughts on his first pro skate contest
Last weekend’s Tampa Pro event in Florida rocked the house with the ridiculousness we’ve come to expect from the yearly event/party. For Ventura, California’s Curren Caples, the event was his first pro...
View ArticleScott Stevens takes tramp-skating to the next level
Scott Stevens is perhaps most famous for his snowboarding escapades, but the fickle nature of snow leaves quite a bit of free time for boredom-killing activities like tramp-skating, which, for those of...
View ArticleIs Ryan Sheckler’s injured foot ready for X Games Brazil?
Pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler was on a sponsor shoot in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 25 when he took a terrible tumble, injuring his foot. The immediate question became, can he recover in time for X...
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Street League Skateboarding unveils new fantasy game
Fantasy sports aren’t just for armchair quarterbacks anymore. This year Street League Skateboarding adds a new level to the competition, bringing us its very own fantasy challenge, the SLS Fantasy...
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Buy a skateboard, make someone’s life better
“We started with no money, a tank full of gas, some reclaimed oak, and access to a vintage wood shop outside of Bucksnort, Tennessee. We exist to build the highest quality handmade skateboards and to...
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Vans presents new video series ‘DERP’
Vans recently announced the release of DERP*, an urban exploration project featuring their European skateboarding team. The video series is filmed in three European cities: Dubrovnik, Croatia; Hanover,...
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Skateboarder magazine launches new digital platform
In a move that marks the sign of the times in the media business, Skateboarder magazine—the sport’s oldest magazine in existence today—has shifted from a paid subscription print model to a free,...
View ArticleA first: Brazilian three-peats in Skateboard Big Air
Brazilian skateboarding star Bob Burnquist spends much of his time in the air, what with his flying of aerobatic tailwheel airplanes and being a certified helicopter pilot. So it is probably not too...
View ArticleLook ma, no hands! Jake Brown makes history
Many in the skateboarding community remember Australian skateboarder Jake Brown for his horrific body-slam from 47 feet during an X Games Big Air Skateboard competition in 2007. After Thursday night at...
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A digital download with Skateboarder’s Jaime Owens
On the heels of the news that Skateboarder magazine is implementing a major change by converting from a paid-subscription print magazine to a free digital magazine, we thought it timely to ask the...
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Insight presents new denim collection and mini-magazine titled ‘Sharp Pains’
Insight is a fashion lifestyle label born out of the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia. They come from a surf heritage yet lead a lifestyle that encompasses all that is surf, skate, street, art,...
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