Greetings from a crusty McDonalds parking lot on the shores of the Columbia River near the Maryhill Festival of Speed! After making the trek from the Los Angeles, then Santa Barbara, onward to San Francisco, and then Portland, Oregon, we have finally arrived at Maryhill with a few minutes to relax, let the grooms feed …
For Wheelbase Magazine, the San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate began three years back, when we held our first downhill skateboarding event in San Pedro, California under the name “San Pedro Shred“, which was an unsanctioned, slide jam event with an unprecedented turnout of over two hundred-plus local and international downhill skateboarders. We started that …
Greetings from a rainy and somewhat chilly Portland! After making the trek from the Los Angeles area to Santa Barbara and onward up through San Francisco, we have finally found ourselves a minute to relax and reflect on the radness that has occurred thus far. We have also found a reliable internet connection, so we …
The media crew at Caliber Trucks always seems to be releasing fun edits featuring their team riders. This edit features Nick Ronzani dispensing the radness in the form of long slides and downhill speed runs on his skateboard, as well as in the form of his thoughts and observations. We’re stoked on this peek into the mind …
We like Sam Hay, and this edit from S-One Helmet Co. is a good example of why. He charges on whatever, wherever, whenever! If you don’t have an entire 2:40 to spare, click straight to 1:45 and enjoy the gnarly bail. If you do have some time to spare, watch the whole thing for a lesson on how …
Testing: Our testing of the DB Longboards “Robot Special” was done on a couple steep and winding descents close to Wheelbase HQ. Features: The Robot Special is a 36″ long, 9.5″ wide, 9-ply, maple downhill skateboard and was designed by Spencer Smith. This unique flush-mount deck features bi-directional rail concave, adjustable wheelbase, flares, curved drop, slight …
Long slides and classic California scenery, ahoy! Joey Nickell made his way out to the west coast a few weeks ago to film this edit for Abec 11 Wheels and Jet Skateboards. If you’re a fan of crispy slow-mo shots (as the majority of us are) you’re in for a treat! We’re stoked to know this young dude and we’re …
sanpedroshred.com The San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate is this weekend. SO STOKED!!! We’ll be releasing new info every day this week at sanpedroshred.com and we’ll continue doing so up until the actual event this Saturday—and—just to let ya know—we’ll be pushing all event info out via the SanPedroShred & Wheelbasemag Facebook pages too. Follow ’em for sure. Our Insta and Twitter …
Eric Jensen is known for skating a kicktailed deck real good. As it turns out, he can also do the deed on a sans-kick downhill skateboard. This new edit dropped by Comet Skateboards shows Jensen doing just that on some twisty-turny roads somewhere in California. We were fortunate enough to get a sneak-peek at this edit and …
Landyachtz Skateboards released this recap of this year’s Britannia Classic for those of us who were unable to make the journey to BC this past month. From the looks of it, this race was a bit hectic due to the wetness, but it appears as though a good deal of fun was still had. And also crashes. Crashes …
If you attended Maryhill Festival of Speed last year and paid a visit to the campsite (or, better yet, tried to get some sleep at the campsite), the Maryhill Mini-Ramp Deathmatch 5000 needs no introduction. If you’re a newcomer to this deal, we’ll just tell you this: There’s a mini-ramp at the campsite, there will be …
In English: When you travel to a new place you bring along with you physical baggage, and also cultural baggage. What I mean by “cultural baggage” is all the collected preconceptions and misconceptions you’ve learned about that particular place and it’s people. When I jumped on the plane to Monterrey, Mexico a couple weeks back …
Attention skaters! Registration for Central Mass 5 will begin Sunday June 15th at 8pm EST! We are looking forward to this year’s festivities and you should be, too! The event organizing committee is pulling out all the stops to make the event even better than last year and we are positive it will end up as such. …
Testing: For our testing of Riviera Skateboards’ Zia Stick we took it down to our neighborhood spillway right on the beach. Features: The Zia Stick is a 7-ply, maple double kick designed by Kody Noble. This board features an adjustable wheelbase of 18″ and 19″ inches, mellow concave, and a tapering tail and diamond tip …
Landyachtz Skateboards just released a speed-packed edit of team rider Ethan Galaif on their Crew Cuts Channel. Ethan is melting faces with the speed of his run and camera-wizard Alex Ameen captured it all as he does best! We’re stoked to see this quality of footage coming out of a team rider channel. So rad!
On June 22nd we will embark on this year’s Keep On Tuckin Tour! We’ll be hitting a whole bunch of spots, stops, and shops as we make our way north to Whistler, B.C. from Long Beach, California and we’d love it if you could swing by and say hello, skate a bit, and perhaps point …
Loaded Boards has released a new edit in celebration of their newest deck “The Overland”. The crew rolled deep into the Californian sticks to capture a good ol’ fashioned weekend with the bros. Ethan Cochard, Daniel Fissmer, Nic Escamilla, and Adam Stokowski all got some time on board while obtaining the radness. If you want some more info about …
The Testing: Our testing of Loaded Boards’ Cantellated Tesseract went down on some local asphalt barrels and features the shredding of our homie Justin Preston. Features: The Cantellated Tesseract is one of three offerings in the Tesseract line-up. This board is a 36” long and 9 ½” wide single-kick downhill skate deck made of bamboo, …
While us ‘Mericans were sleeping, the Aussie brethren at Animal House Reference uploaded this gem of a clipstack featuring Liam Morgan during his semi-recent Australian vacation Arbor Skateboards tour down under. Before this edit came a small number of rad raw runs, but this one’s got a little more oomph behind the lens. As we would …
The Caliber Truck Co. homies dropped this behind-the-scenes/product highlight edit in our inbox this weekend. It features some rad slow-mo shots of #WheelbaseFam members Liam Morgan, Big Dave Tanacci, and James Kelly doing their thing in a backyard pool. Take a peek, enjoy the skating, and leaarn a little bit about the R&D process behind “The Standard” …
Our pal Justen Ortiz got himself a new pro model from the crew at Landyachtz Skateboards! It’s rad to see a dude we like have something rad with his name on it. It’s also rad that this deck is all light and good for skateboarding on hills and whatnot. Take a peek at the videos (above and …