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By Monica McGuire
When deciding to buy a deck, think about why you’re buying it. Are you looking to do trick or just ride around? Decks come in three shapes, mellow, medium and steep, referring to the concave of the board. If you’re just looking to ride or are a beginner, a mellow [...]
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By Ilse Hagen
Skateboard wheels are attached as a pair at the bottom of a skateboard, held and mounted in place by specialized axles known as trucks. They are normally made from polyurethane, a very hard type of rubber, and range in size between 48 to 100 millimeters. Besides size, skateboard wheels also differ in hardness, [...]
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By Anne Clarke
Considered both a sport and a mode of transportation, skateboarding has found its way into mainstream culture and can be seen not only on the streets and in neighborhoods, but also on TV, in movies and in advertisements across the nation.
The origins of skateboarding are tricky, at best. Some consider it erupted out [...]
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By Geoff Wheeler
Rodney Mullen is one of the undisputed innovates and pioneers of the sport of skateboarding. His unique style and constant ability to pull off new, unimagined tricks has kept him in the skateboarding worlds spot light for over 35 years now!. Creating fundamental tricks such as the flat ground ollie, the kick flip, [...]
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The 3 day even dubbed as the gnarliest skateboarding event in terms of cash purse for the skateboarders went down on July 11th-13th 2008 at no other place than Orange County, California. Everything in the event spelled luxury indeed. It even featured an unbelievable skate park built solely for the event – yes, [...]
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Could there be a better way to kick start the skateboarding year other than Bowl A Rama’s stop at Bondi Beach Australia?! Set on one of the most amazing beach in Australia located just a number of miles away from the Sydney, the country’s most lively and popular city.
This year’s even surely raised [...]
If you thought your skateboard set cost you a fortune, this should make you scratch your head and wonder, “Can a skateboard possibly sell at US$ 8,250 a set?”! French luxury designer Louis Vuitton (LV) does.
Crazy and outrageous as it sounds, the world renowned luxury designer is indeed selling limited edition Stephen Sprouse graffiti skateboards [...]
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Where else is the best place to skateboard than EVERYWHERE? That’s right. Wherever you may be physically located, with a dose of imagination, you can definitely skate there.
Long gone are the days when skateboarders are constricted to skateparts or vertical ramps (vert). This is even more evident these days as the trend of street skating [...]
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Philanthropy in any form is the noblest thing any man can do in his lifetime. Eric Koston himself is giving his share in his own little way. In this case, he collaborated with Girl Skateboards to create a limited edition, (RED) skateboard deck.
Eric Koston’s signature boards are the first set that Andy Jenkins, Art Direct [...]
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After leaving Ethnies, the bowl-king and currently the title holder of the 2008 X Games Superpark, Rune Glifberg joins the likes of Raymond Molinar, Anthony Pappalardo, Ethan Fowler, Nick Trapasso and Sammy Baca who are comfortably at home with the Converse Skateboarding team.
The Converse Skateboarding team could have not picked a more familiar face – [...]
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