“Dad, you said we were going to be on the road at the crack of dawn,” my nine-year old son Kaiam squeaked from the Subaru’s backseat. “This is before the crack of dawn!” Driving I-84 up the Columbia River Gorge into a midnight (well, 5 AM, technically) blue sky underlined by a dark pink horizon, […]
The good folks at Orangatang Wheels have just unleashed the Menopause. We had a chance to find out more. What prompted you to bring on test participants for the launch of this wheel? Product development is a very important part of Loaded and Orangatang. We’re here to build the best stuff we can, and see […]
The story of “Cuban Linx,” aka the “Juergen Gritzner transportation project,” began in the summer of 2015. Ian Comishin and Kalie Racine of Kebbek Skateboards, encouraged by the historical political changes in Cuba, had the idea of bringing 100 completes of my Alps board to Cuba to support and energize skaters there Cuban kids love […]
THE SEVEN-YEAR PITCH KOZAKOV CHALLENGE LIVES UP TO ITS REPUTATION Just over 100 kilometers northeast of Prague, the “thousand-spired” capital of the Czech Republic, a 4- to 6-million-year-old volcano slumbers high above the pastoral Bohemian landscape. While not the grandest peak in the region, for speedboarders worldwide this place is as epic as they come. […]
Defining longboarding’s purpose isn’t easy. Some will say it’s a tool for fun, for thrills, for commuting. Or perhaps it’s a vehicle for pushing one’s boundaries and even finding one’s self atop the humble plank and four wheels. All are legitimate purposes, though, and their pursuit produces a common byproduct: exploration. Skating through countries and […]
While many of us attend skate events, not many people consider what it’s like to actually be responsible for organizing and running them. We wanted to take you inside the mind of an event producer and explore what it’s like to face the challenge of hosting several hundred skateboarders in all conditions on a mountainside […]
LIVING AS A LEGEND: By Kurt Hurley The Bridge has been running for two years now in Concrete Wave. My intent all along has been to grace these pages with legendary skaters who changed the history of skateboarding forever. Biker Sherlock definitely fits that description. Biker’s story has been documented in this magazine before: owner […]
As many of you know, this past October was the Broadway Bomb in NYC. For those who don’t know, the Bomb is an 8.6-mile outlaw race that starts on 116th Street, cuts straight through the heart of the city and finishes by the Bull by Wall Street. It is dubbed the most dangerous skate race […]
I’ve known Victor for a number of years, and trust me when I say that his skate stoke is infectious. “I was 7 years old when I borrowed this kid’s skateboard that lived in my neighborhood,”he says. “The next day I went and took apart my sister’s roller skates, grabbed a 2 x 4 and […]
Over the past several years, more women and girls have started longboarding, a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. There is no doubt the Longboard Girls Crew has been an inspiration to many around the world. But Isabelle can trace her skateboard journey back to 1980. “I started skateboarding with the guys on […]
Stephen Jepson first tried skateboarding at age 25, in the spring of 1965, on a trip from Iowa City to Sycamore, Illinois. “I had gone to visit my girlfriend’s parents,” he says, “and their son was on his board outside of their house. He let me try it, and before I had the chance to […]
Bill Wennerholm hails from Prescott, Arizona. He’s 75 and started skateboarding in 1947 at the age of 7. “We would take a 2 x 4 and nail two metal skates to each end and use that as a skateboard,” he says. “This was years before actual skateboards were made.” It took almost two decades before […]