I don’t understand most of what is going on with and/or in this edit. (That’s OK. Understanding is only part of the reason we’re here.) From what I can gather, The Gonz met up with a fellow named Bernard Geluk at NYC’s Chelsea Piers Skatepark for some skateboard fun. The part I can understand, and the …
I had a dream a while back that I was skating a mega ramp. Maybe it was this one or maybe it was the one from the Whistler event — I don’t recall. Regardless, I was not doing anything nearly as rad as what Bob Burnquist is doing IRL on his Dreamland setup. Because I have obtained …
New York City thrives on the balance of opposites. A blazingly hot and sticky summer is balanced with a bone-chilling WTF-and-windy winter. At a hot dog cart, a middle-aged TriBeCan business-man converses with a painfully hip twenty-something from Green Point. In the evenings, the Lower East Side laundromats and leather shops swap spots with the storm doored store fronts …
Arbor Skateboards and Caliber Truck Co. teamed up to double the fun (and perhaps save a couple bucks on gas) by cramming two vans full of stench stoke-strokers and releasing two edits from the same road trip to Whistler Longboard Festival. Birds and stones? Girls and cups? That’s so passé. These days, it’s all about killing two edits …
California Bonzing Skateboards is hosting an art show at the Sub-Mission Gallery in San Francisco on August 15th, 2013. The group art show features skateboarders that are all from San Francisco including Adrian Charter, Aaron Breetwor, Chad Lybrand, Freddie Sizemore, Yvonne Byers and Austin Graziano. The event happens on Thursday and will begin at 8pm. …
In all things skateboarding the hierarchy goes: style 1st, speed 2nd, and safety 3rd. Anyway, that’s how I see it. Welcome back to my Yeehaw! column here at Wheelbase Magazine. Don’t get the wrong impression about how I prioritize safety—it merely expresses the motivation of myself as a rider coupled with my particular experiences. “I …
Maryhill: Festival of Speed, 2013. . . ummm. . . okay, I’ve got ten minutes to write something really in-depth about the event. Well. . . fuck it! Anyway, the event was grand and fun and stuff. We definitely skated Maryhill a lot (backside & frontside), we drank stuff, some smoked some stuff, we lurked heavily …
B.C. Skatebronies SwitchBack Longboards have initiated movement for Phase One of their plan for total and ultimate and thorough world domination by way of their new web-series “SwitchBack Labs“. Come along for a purportedly goofy ride with Cleary Donnelly and learn some stuff and things about skateboards, skateboard setups and whatever else they think up. …
We’re restless in anticipation of the Central Mass 4 Longboard Festival! We understand there’s nothing that event organizer Mike Girard can do to speed up time, so in lieu of time-travel, he’s got some words to share with us as we wait oh-so-patiently for the event to arrive! From the man, Mike G, himself, here are some important …
Come join us, and our homies Rayne Longboards, as we get slide-jammy this Sunday, 11:00 AM (7/21/2013) at the infamous Talega, near San Clemente, Ca. Member’s of the Rayne, Paris, Divine, Vicious, Gunmetal, Deathwish, Toy Machine, Nascar (those last three, not so much!) teams, plus many, many more will be out getting all sorts of sideways (straightways too!) and we’ll …
Dearest Town of Goldendale, Washington, Hi. It’s us. The group of skateboarders who take-over your town each summer as if we were a swarm of cicadas with a natural gravitation toward cheap beer, loud music and your ever-so-impressive offering of fireworks. Though it may be a bit late to apologize for the ruckus that occurred …
Seemingly longing for the days of skateboard past, Landyachtz Longboards has released an old-school-inspired shape for your rollyboarding pleasure. There sure are a lot of Max’s in skateboarding… But, in this instance, I’ll leave it to the shapist of the “El Barbaro” deck Max Gradlmiller to describe the reasoning(s) behind the deck’s form as well as show the …
Young, yoked up, talented and oh-so-popular with the ladies, brasilero Jonas Richter is an up-and-coming force in the realm of downhill skateboarding. In between traveling to and from races all across the US, we got to spend some time with Jonas skating around the borough of Queens in New York City. Being unfamiliar with the …
If you happen to be an unfortunate soul who is currently unable to view videos — be it due to work, school or some sub-par DSL internet service that you pay way too much for simply because you’ve got no other option (Thanks, Verizon.) — let me sum up this video for you real quick-like: James Kelly rides …
The Blood Orange Leather Slide Gloves feature leather-reinforced knuckles and fingertips, inverted seam stitching, a one piece palm design, perforated leather for ventilation, and they include 2 Blood Orange “wedge” pucks. The Testing: In order to test the Blood Orange Leather Slide Gloves we took them into the cuts of downtown Long Beach. Results/Findings: Pros: These …
Skateboarding and adventures go hand-in-hand. We’ve made posts on this topic many times before, but I feel that the connection isn’t going to die out any time soon! Have skateboard, will explore. That said, I feel that I should step up my #adventuregame and follow in the footsteps of the wise Justen Ortiz and plan a …
Volante Wheels is continuing their “The Spot” series with an edit featuring blueberry farmer Eric Jensen. Considering the absolute scientific fact that Eric Jensen is already a household name, Blake Smith has graced said households with a stokeworthy digital representation of Jensen’s skateboarding prowess. It’s one thing to have a rad skater in an edit, but dropping a talented filmer/editor …
In a state where everything is bigger, is skating everything more impressive? From the looks of the edit from Red Dirt Media the answer is yes. or perhaps it’s got something to do with the large number of skaters and radness/clips featured in this video. Either way, this video has got us stoked to get …
Twelve hours later, after leaving the Sunset District of San Francisco, we rolled into the ever-radical city of Portland, OR at five AM. Specifically , the PDX Skatehouse—home of JP of Rip City Skate, the legendary ATV of shred, Casey Morrow, as well as a solid cast of other serious Oregon shredders. We all passed …
Blood Orange has made an excellent choice in adding OG SanFran ripper JM Duran to their team. JM has been around since the days of yore (in hillboarding terms, that is) and harnesses the #SkateEverything ethos the rest of us admire oh-so-dearly. Check in on this edit and get a glimpse of JM’s SF skate-life …
Bear Trucks have been in the #longboardgame for quite some time now with their Grizzly RKP lineup and now have something to satisfy your other needs. The newest addition to the Bear lineup comes in the form of a TKP/Standard Geometry/”Indy-style” truck in four different sizes: 105mm, 130mm, 155mm & 180mm. Being the sharp minded …
The crew at Muir Skate has come through with a thoroughly-exciting recap of the first ever/annual Angie’s Curves Downhill Skateboard Race. Crafted with love by Muir’s video editizers Derek Smith & Joe Gutkowski, this edit covers pretty much everything to go down at the event: skateboarding, faster skateboarding, amazing views, some serious bailz and a whole lot of celebration. It’s …
The 3rd Annual Whistler Longboard Festival is happening this weekend, July 4-7. This time around, the Whistler crew has set up a live feed so that everyone who couldn’t make it all the way up to Canada can still enjoy the thrills of downhill skateboarding, beer, mini ramps, a big air contest and guns. Check in at the Whistler …
The Angie’s Curves event all sewn-up and the shredding shredded, we piled in the Muir van and drove through the night to meet up with Big Dave and the Sunset Sliders crew in San Francisco. We arrived the next morning at 5AM after a couple inopportune pit-stops. We lurked on Ocean Beach for a spell, …
The Maryhill Festival of Speed has drawn to a close, winners have been named and the #KeepOnTuckin tour will continue on to America’s hat over the next few days. The tempz soared to 100°F+ today as the heats led to the final showdown. Patrick Switzer took the top spot for the Open division, and Elena Corrigall …