Landyachtz has always felt right at home on the West Coast. Founded by childhood friends Mike Perreten and Tom Edstrand while they were attending the University of Victoria, the brand started with the simple idea of making better boards for getting around campus and having more fun on the way. From those early BC roots, […]
Rick and Graham from CalStreets /BoarderLabs made a visit to Catoro on East Broadway in Vancouver to make a food donation. Fingerboarders at Blade Park have been donating to our cat food basket for exactly this purpose – to support cat rescue and adoption programs. Founders Dan and Annah welcomed us and gave us a […]
Christian Hosoi did not just become one of the biggest skateboarders of the 1980s. He became one of the clearest examples of what skateboarding could look like when raw talent, personal style, celebrity energy, and original product design all collided at full speed. In an era packed with giants, Hosoi stood apart because he made […]
Gullwing is one of those skateboard truck companies that feels permanently welded to the sound, look, and attitude of skateboarding’s second great explosion. While Independent, Tracker, Bennett, ACS, and later Thunder all carved out their own territories, Gullwing built its name on a different kind of promise: fast turning, high-speed stability, wild design ideas, and […]
Nick Boos: The Airbrush Artist Behind CalStreets’ Iconic ’86 Corvette Long before digital graphics dominated automotive art, there were artists who mastered the airbrush — a challenging tool that lets painters blend colours seamlessly and create vibrant, flowing imagery directly onto vehicles. One such artist working in Western Canada is Nick Boos, best known locally […]
Antihero Skateboards has always felt like the brand that shows up with its shirt half untucked, a dent in the van, and zero interest in pretending skateboarding is cleaner, safer, or more respectable than it really is. Founded in 1995 under the Deluxe Distribution umbrella, Antihero came together when Julien Stranger was given room to […]
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G&S Skateboards, short for Gordon & Smith, sits right at the roots of modern skateboarding. The company was founded in San Diego in 1959 by Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith as a surfboard brand, then grew into one of the most important early surf-and-skate manufacturers in California. By the 1970s, G&S was not just dabbling […]
When two legends collide, the result is loud, fast, and impossible to ignore. The new OJ Wheels x Black Sabbath collaboration brings together one of skateboarding’s most respected wheel brands with one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time. It’s a meeting of cultures that have always lived side by side—skateboarding and […]
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 […]
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 […]
