The early 2000s were a straight-up golden era for skateboarding videos if you ask me. It was a time when full-length VHS and DVD releases were truly everything. These videos influenced our style, ...

Before the GoPro and the cell phone camera, there was the handheld video recorder, and for the DIY world of skateboarding, it was a revelation. By the late 1980s, video recorders were smaller and more ...

As a way of documentation, skate videos have become the gatekeepers of our history and will always play a defining role in skate culture. For many of us, skateboarding was introduced to us through a ...

A Carlsbad High School stairway famously known in skateboard videos as “The Carlsbad Gap” was the scene on Saturday of one last video shoot before its demolition. A film crew was at the school to ...

I was once talking to a professor about public spaces and how artists use them. At some point, the topic of skateboarding — that most public of activities — came up. He mentioned that his sons had ...

Skateboarding kicked off in west-coast America around the 1960s. Thrill-seekers would drop in on empty pools and sidewalks. The city as the skate park has always fostered the four-wheeled ...

Video might have killed the radio star, but increasingly it is pushing skateboarding—an “outsider” sport, by design—into the mainstream. Skateboarding, which grew out of surfing, has always been ...

Chris Haslam gives a skateboarding demonstration at Innoskate 2013 in front of the National Museum of American History. Image courtesy Innoskate. The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of ...

The world of Skate was already heading in a sterile, sanitized, corporate direction - guided by the trends in real-life ...

The Skate reboot is finally out in early access, ending a decade-long drought for EA's popular skateboarding series. You'd think its various internet subcommunities would be full of cool skateboarding ...

For many of us, skateboarding was introduced to us through a visual medium, whether popping in a VHS skate video, stumbling upon the X-Games on TV or playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. The act of ...