CalStreets Chance Skateboards Demo session on Saturday September 24th was a big hit! Right across the street from CalStreets Skateshop & Boarder Labs at RYU. Respect Your Universe (RYU Apparel) has a sweet concrete courtyard perfect for skating. On top of that they are such amazing people that they let us roughians tear it up […]
Based out of Miami, Florida, the Skateboard Supercross Academy or SBSX Academy is where you go to learn how to shred and where you go to ride pumptracks. Founded by Jonathan Strauss and Alon Karpman, SBSX Academy is the educational side of skateboarding, where all wheel sports come together. You are familiar with soccer, basketball, […]
The Labs crew invaded our fave indoor skate park, the Dry Spot, for a refreshing slice of four-wheeled fun CalStreets style. Longboarders traded in their stand-up slides for rail slides. King pins were reversed as soft wheels were shelved for a night of hard-wheeled fun. Flying down hills was replaced with flying through the […]
It sounds simple, right? To go out there in the world today and just express yourself however you want? But it’s not so easy anymore. There are so many false standards in this world, and kids today are plagued by the media, especially social media, to try to live up to the standards they believe […]
Thanks again to Rick at CalStreets, as well as Coastal, for supplying the prizes and riders to demo for the kids. Much appreciated.
Having had a 35 year love affair with all things skateboarding, I was stoked beyond belief to recently have the opportunity to leave the U.K shores to go on a tour of the American northwest with a production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night . The production was to tour for 9 weeks and included the cities […]
Based in the Netherlands, Sickboards has just constructed a new shop, inspired by places they have visited. They hope it will inspire other shops, and of course their customers. As founder Martijn Schrama explains, “The name Sickboards is sometimes confusing to people. They think we are a board brand. We did actually start out like […]
These days, it’s easy to get worn down by the effects of our modern lifestyle: traffic jams, pollution, fast-food diets, social media overload, the reality of “reality TV.” It’s only natural, then, that we search for a means of escape. For some, it’s getting lost in the pages of a good book; for others it’s […]
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I step on the board and leave the town of Aomori, located in the northernmost region of Japan’s main island, Honshu. I’m eager to skate on deserted country roads that will lead me deep into the hilly heartland, famous for its dense forests and many rivers. This is Tohoku, a mostly rural part of an […]
Vancouver winter is like spring anywhere else. Seemingly endless days of rain and wet weather. Luckily we have a nice “Dry Spot” to throw down at on the nasty days and evenings this beautiful city can throw at us. I needed a subject for a mock magazine spread I am working on for University and […]
It’s 6:30 a.m. and I am dreading the rather dull hour-long commute into Vancouver. To make things worse, it’s raining and still dark outside. Flipping through the stations on the radio, I hone in on an upbeat song – and since I’m familiar with it, I sing along: “She’s got a heart of gold, she’d […]