Features

Brian Sumner I was visiting your website [briansumner.net] and noticed that a lot of your graphics have to do with ninjas. Are you just a fan of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee movies, or do you actually practice martial arts? Do you think that there is a link between martial arts and skateboarding? My friends [...]

Question Authority Rick McCrank You’re my favorite skateboarder. Not only do you kill it on the streets, but also on transitions. And you’re not a dick or all flashy and hype, y’know? How do you manage to be a pro and live in Vancouver? Do you ever think of living in California? What do you [...]

Vert Best Trick and Big Air from Los Angeles Bob Burnquist and Danny Way come out on top at the X Games. These guys are driven; both of them suffered repeated slams, both of them ignored the beatings and moved on to take Gold. Vert Best Trick The crowd was behind Shaun White and his [...]

4 teams, 3 cities and one week to destroy them all.

We tracked Chet Childress down at his home in Portland Oregon to ask him a few questions about art, inspiration and and his alter ego. Once your done reading this, Click Here to win some Childress art T’s What inspires your style of art? Traveling, being stuck in limbo (airplanes, bars, hotels, tours). …drawing on [...]

Grindline Comes To California. The trannys are poured, and the Mammoth Skatepark is soon to be open. It’slated to be the biggest park in California at 45,000 square feet. This skatepark was built in memory of pro snowboarder, avid skateboarder and Mammoth native, Jeff Anderson and will be titled the “Brothers Skatepark”.

Los Angeles, Calif. – Blood, sweat and tears went into creating the etnies Stereo Collection. etnies designers worked with Jason Lee and Chris Pastras around the clock to develop footwear that possessed Stereo’s urban Americana style. After all the hard work that went into the project, etnies and Stereo hosted an evening of Martinis and [...]

…

Q. Ok.. from Beer City to Illenium to Krooked to ALMOST…. Was it hard to decide what you wanted from a team? A. Well I just wanted to be a part of a company that makes sense with the team. A team where traveling is fun and every one gets along and are friends. Then [...]

Grab your extra pair of socks and your brown bag lunch, it is time to board the Skateboarder short bus for a field trip. We all know that field trips are always better than sitting behind the same old desk but four years of touring the same old apple juice factory can get kind of [...]

Jamie Thomas 60 Seconds Last trick you learned? Haven’t learned any new tricks. I’ve just been relearning old tricks. What would you do today if the world was going to end tomorrow? I’d call everyone I could and tell them about Jesus. Then I’d call everyone I cared about and talk about how rad it’s [...]

SKATE ANATOMY BRAD STABA “My ribs punctured my liver and cut it three-fourths of the way open.” Left Side Broken finger I broke my index finger on a camping trip. I was holding a football for my midget uncle to kick. He kicked my finger instead and broke the tiny bone in it. Later on [...]