Electric skateboards have quietly changed. Not long ago they were treated like a novelty — something fun to carve a parking lot or cruise the seawall on a sunny day. Today a growing number of riders are using them as real transportation. They’re riding to work, school, the SkyTrain, and everywhere in between. That shift […]
Skateboarding has always evolved by borrowing from other disciplines. Street skating borrowed from freestyle, downhill borrowed from surf stance, and surfskate literally rebuilt ocean motion onto concrete. Now the company behind the Onewheel — the self-balancing board that re-introduced carving to an entire new generation — is stepping sideways into something completely different but strangely […]
Rob Roskopp is one of those names that instantly pulls you into a very specific era of skateboarding — when speed, style, and board graphics were loud enough to be felt from across the park. He came out of the Midwest and landed in Santa Cruz at the perfect moment, then helped define what an […]
There are anniversary drops, and then there are time-capsules you can actually skate. The new 50th Anniversary Skateboard Hall of Fame Gold Reissue capsule from Madrid Skateboards is a full-on tribute to the shapes, graphics, and personalities that helped define an era—done in a gold-dipped, display-worthy finish that still feels true to what reissues are […]
To understand Bronson, it helps to understand NHS. NHS was established in 1973 by Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman in Santa Cruz, originally connected to surf culture, then rapidly pivoting into skateboards at the exact moment the “sidewalk surfing” era was evolving into modern skateboarding. Over time, NHS became the home/distributor for cornerstone […]
If there’s one component in skateboarding that quietly decides whether your setup feels “alive” or feels like you’re pushing through wet sand, it’s bearings. Bones Bearings became the default answer to that problem by doing something that sounds obvious now, but wasn’t at the time: treating skateboard bearings as their own discipline, not as generic […]
Santa Cruz didn’t just build a board company — they built a whole urethane universe. Under the NHS umbrella, the wheel sub-brands became their own loud, fast, graphic-driven identities, yet still felt like one connected family: shared art direction, shared team energy, shared distribution muscle, and a shared mission to make skateboarding look and sound […]
Skateboard hardware seems simple at a glance, but the shape of a bolt head has quietly influenced how boards feel, function, and even look for decades. The two main camps—countersunk and old school (often called panhead)—exist for very different reasons, and understanding the difference helps explain why certain setups feel “right” while others just look […]
The Bee’s Knees 90 mm wheels from Orangatang Wheels mark a confident step forward in high-performance longboard wheel design, aimed squarely at riders who prioritise comfort, efficiency, and dependable grip over long distances. Built around a full 90 mm diameter and poured in Orangatang’s proven Happy Thane urethane, these wheels are purpose-built for real-world terrain. […]
The lineage of the TSG Pass helmet stretches back over a decade, rooted in the company’s deep engagement with high-speed skateboarding and the needs of riders seeking serious protection without compromising performance. The original Pass was developed in collaboration with world-champion downhill skateboarder Martin Siegrist and quickly became a benchmark in full-face headgear for gravity […]
THE ORIGIN STORY Berlinwood starts in 2002, when Timo Lieben began making handmade wooden fingerboard decks in Berlin at a time when most setups were still plastic, improvised, and held together with whatever worked. That alone was a shift, but what truly set Berlinwood apart was how rare and unattainable it felt in the early […]
Testing the Durometer Claims of Popular Hybrid Skateboard Wheels Wheel durometer numbers get thrown around a lot, especially with the rise of “hybrid” formulas that promise soft-wheel comfort with hard-wheel slide. To see how close marketing claims are to real-world hardness, we tested several popular wheels using a Shore C durometer under consistent conditions. Same […]