Well, this is kinda weird. Check it out. This gem was created by the Sunset Sliders and uploaded to Stephan Reinhardt’s YouTube channel, so it’s not an official anything (yet?), but perhaps we can take this as a sign that there’s more fun stuff to come from Caliber Truck Co? Not sure? Just stumbled across it on …
The Wild Boar is 37” long , 10” wide, and is a 9 plys maple top-mount deck with minimal taper from nose-to-tail. It is designed with both flush mounting and CNC wheel-wells and it is Anthony Flis’ recently released downhill pro model. The Testing: For our testing of Comet’s new Wild Boar, we shredded one of …
From the South African branch of Mercedes-Benz comes this edit “cinematic portrayal” of a downhill skateboarder (Decio Lourenco) racing alongside a tasty piece of machinery from the MB lineup (driven by Robbi Smith). The video itself is pretty bad-ass and the car doesn’t look too bad either, though we’d probably still rather skate down this …
Alright, Orangatang Wheels, you’ve got our attention. Now show us what they look like on a board! More to come on the new Cage, Kilmer and Keanu wheels as the story unfolds. (The full release edit is due on October 8th.) Until then, this goofy edit, the following bit of text—which we find particularly interesting—and the …
The Abec 11/Sk8Trip/Jet/Liquid Trucks crew made their way to the Giants Head Freeride in true skateboarder fashion: a long road trip in a smart car filled with smelly skaters and way too much gear. Complete with pit stops and skate spots along the way, this long-form edit (it’s just about 10 minutes long—bring a snack!) encompasses all …
Comet Skateboards is continuing their #CrimeUnit series with their second board, “The Farmer“, crafted specifically by/for team rider, and blueberry farmer extraordinaire, Eric Jensen. We’re not entirely certain what part of the #CrimeUnit this new Farmer deck represents, but something tells us a lot more than “blueberries” went in to the production of this edit and …
Billy “Bones” Meiner, winner of the 2013 Cathlamet Downhill Skateboard Race, sat down for a bite and a little Q&A action with Landyachtz Longboards. He says he skipped a few of the “dumb questions” and the “weird” ones, but it seems to me like he went through them all, so check in on the video for Billy’s answers to the …
Trust me, bro, you can’t even handle my #swag now that I’ve got my S-Walker Board. It’s basically the best thing to happen to this alternative skateboarding thing I see all the kids doing these days. Not only does it go down hills like mad fast for a battery-operated device, it also goes up them, bro! Not very …
Party people over here say yeaaayyeeeeaaaaaa! Timeship Racing has taken it upon themselves to drop some Pikes Peak coverage that’s got us jonesin’ to grab our timemachine-slash-airplane and transport ourselves back to the Pikes Peak weekend since we were unable to make it out there ourselves. (Next year f’sho! …Unless we get invited to another backstage …
Do you like wriggling through cones? racing winding roads in sexy leather suits & full-face helmets? hurling yourself over long, sketchy gaps? tearing it up on banks & walls? slashing hardily over whoop-tee-doos? or simply shredding long, tasty ‘thane lines? If you answered “yes” to one or more of the above then you need to …
The current skateboarding industry is home to a whole lot of wheel companies. Quite saturated, if you will. Just how many wheel companies exactly? I don’t know. A lot. Enough? Nah. Though we are basically spoiled with selection here, guys. Assuming we can come up with the ca$h, we can pinpoint our next purchase to …
After what’s felt like an entire billion teaser edits, the Greener Pastures Offshore web-series has finally begun! In the first episode, “The Island”, the Greener Pastures crew finds itself stranded on a desert island in the middle of the Eastern Atlantic with nothing but the bags on their backs and the boards under their feet. How …
I think I remember my first picture, serious picture, without a helmet while doing a slide—it was a black & white Caliber photo my homie Dustin Damron shot and I was wearing an A’s hat. I had seen people complain about the lack of helmets in downhill before, so I was expecting some backlash, but …
As if the Broadway Bomb weekend wasn’t already guaranteed to be filled with excitement, Bustin Boards has brought us on board for the “World Skate Fam Welcome Party” along with Push Culture Apparel. This fest of awesomeness will take place Friday, October 11th in the Lower East Side of New York City. If you’ll be in the city at noon, …
*And it has been for a week now. How could I have overlooked this?! The newest addition to the Orangatang Wheels lineup can be ordered right now from your favorite downhill skateboarding supply-house. The Kegel—known to most outside our industry as the muscle of the tussle—is a really large wheel for conquering the really large hills in your neighborhood. …
This is in response to all of those kooks & criddlers out there that choose to propagate shit-talking, hatefulness, and ignorance in and around our skate community. Firstly, I’d like to start by saying: “Stop it!” and “Go fuck yourselves!” Secondly, and more closely to my actual point, I’d like to express my personal belief …
Just in time to stoke us out before the weekend drops, Arbor Skateboards has released an edit of Tyler Howell (his first “official” edit) slicing and dicing the hills around Santa Barbara, California. Well-known within the downhill-skateboard-illuminati-community, T. Howell’s got rad moves on launch ramps and also knows how to make his way down a hill with a good …
Growing up in a relatively rural Northern California town I wasn’t exposed to very many large and/or well-paved riding surfaces. The biggest places for us to skate were cul-de-sacs and long sidewalks—though most were covered with enough cracks, potholes and dirt to persuade even the most dedicated skateboarder to swap their board for a bicycle. …
Levi Green does not get the amount of acknowledgement he deserves. He skates fast, does the technical stuff the kiddies like and makes it all look way too easy, adding an element of style making other riders mad jelly. For this reason, we are stoked to see him get some face time in Rayne Longboards’ release edit …
Hot off the Comet Skateboards press comes “The Wild Boar” downhill skateboard deck brought to life by the Wild Boar himself, Mr. Anthony Flis. Straying a bit from their more prominent design scheme of colorful, trippy-esque graphics, this deck places the word “POLICE” all up in your innocent-until-proven-guilty grill accompanied by the Comet insignia below. This deck …
Calling all artsy-rippers & design-savvy-shredders, If you have ever dreamt of having your art featured on radical skate products then our new Wheelbase Package Design Challenge: Vicious Grip is your gravy-train to greatness. We have teamed up with our friends over at Vicious Grip in order to present to you this latest Wheelbase Package Design Challenge. This challenge is …