REINE OLIVERIA I’m a Brazilian rider who loves downhill sliding, freeriding and speed boarding. My downhill slide board is my favorite setup. It is part of my roots, has the most style, and is what I have the most fun on. The Abec 11 Sublime Power Slides 100a are perfect for long slides. The Gullwing […]
Every day we are faced with new products that beg to be supported. How many kick starter campaigns have you seen this year involving a newly reinvented skateboard product? It is rare that we come across something truly ground breaking and genuine. There is no kick starter campaign behind Harfang, only sacrifice and ingenuity. This […]
In July, Concrete Wave headed to New York City to meet up with Ray Korman and Luke Ayata. Ray’s son, Noel Korman, was the founder of the Union and Luke was one of his closest friends. Both Concrete Wave and Longboarding for Peace have decided to join forces with the Union and you will see […]
We’re getting close to the ninth month of activities and the kids are developing their skills just fine. I am learning so much about them and their communities too. We have developed a great bond with each other. A couple of months ago we had the annual Montreal Longboard Fest event sanctioned by the IDF. […]
GALLERY SK8 HISTORY 1975-2015 VANCOUVER Vintage Skate shots from 1980’s up to new shop Longboarder Labs 2015.
GALLERY SK8 HISTORY 1975-2015 VANCOUVER Vintage Skate shots from 1980’s up to new shop Longboarder Labs 2015.
Left Coast Longboarders – Born Out of a Breakup Words and photos: Heidi Lemmon I’ve been working with street skaters in South Central Los Angeles for 15 years but until recently had never seen even one longboarder. I was doing a photo shoot with longboarder Neil Weiland in Venice. One of his sponsors, “Da Strap,” […]
H-Street and Tony Magnusson The last thing Tony Magnusson ever thought he would do is help change the direction of skateboarding. But that is exactly what his company H-Street and a few other “skater owned” companies like World Industries, Blind and New Deal did. These companies were previously unknown, as the majority of skate companies […]
Shen “Dominic” Meng, 37, China Dominic lives in Beijing, China’s capital, where he was a designer for the Kempinski Hotel until 2013, when he quit to devote all his time to freestyle skating. In March 2014, Dominic emailed me asking for help in obtaining his Canadian visa so he could travel here and compete at […]
I’m not a skateboarder, but I somehow have become immersed into its culture of people, and especially taken in by the skateboarding scene in Cuba. The skaters’ attitudes and lifestyle inspire me. It sounds ludicrous when I tell people about my experience, but I am convinced it’s the simple life of the skateboarders that is […]
The soul of skateboarding will never die. These are words that have lived with me since the day I saw them enshrined on a Wes Humpston cover of Concrete Wave. (That would be Vol. 1 No. 3, Fall 2002 – Ed.) Then, I believed them only to mean that skaters were brash, disorderly and anarchists […]
There has been a lot of commentary regarding pro skater Leticia Bufoni appearing in this year’s “Body Issue” of ESPN magazine. I have been a fashion stylist working with athletes for the past 18 years for brands like Nike, Gatorade, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Honda, etc. I have dressed (and seen) the bodies of everyone from […]