Journey with us as we jettison our latest Weekly Wrap-Up news collection for Feb 13 - 26, 2016 straight outta the cockpit of our shredworthy skate vessel (wheelbasemag.com to be exact). This right here is another one of those “two-for-ones”, as we were on a filming mission last week and were unable to get enough web-time to …
WORDS & PHOTO Marcus Bandy I’ve been involved with skateboard competitions for over 25 years now—anything and everything from small skate shop contests and regional amateur leagues to Word Cup street skating circuits and currently professional downhill racing. During these same years, and concurrent throughout my involvement in the traditional sporting side of skateboarding, I’ve also …
WORDS Marcus Bandy For me, skateboarding is an amazing sounding board for creatives to share ideas, culture and politics, and music has always been one of the main forms for creative communication in our community. I feel so grateful for all of the rad music and ideas that being a skateboarder has allowed me to enjoy …
This week is a mixed bag of skate goodness—everything from park ripping madness to hill bombing delights—street ripping too! Welcome to our latest Weekly Wrap-Up news collection for Feb 6 - 12, 2016. Lurk it and enjoy. Kicking things off we have Tai Nakayama of LongboardLarry ripping in the Bu. This dude is a Malibu hill slaying legend …
WORDS & PHOTOS Marcus Bandy For this week’s Action Now column I’m here to discuss one of my more recent passions: Dogboarding. Simply put, dogboarding is a shrednasty interspecies bonding activity betwixt us humanoids and our canid companions, it provides quality exercise for our four legged friendos, It’s a shitload of fun, and it is a …
Drop a knee, relax a spell, and grind across our latest Weekly Wrap-Up news collection for Jan 23 - Feb 5, 2016. This week’s news is one of those “two-weeks-in-one” jobs because got too busy skating stuff. Anyway, this one is hecka lit and filled with tight tidbits and massive morsels of skate goodness. Enjoy then delploy: …
It is absolutely paramount for my personal happiness—as a skateboarder and creative—to set aside time for play, or what I like to call Mind Spray. Mind spray is not something I just made up right now—I was first introduced to it via Jeru The Damaja’s OG hip hop track “My Mind Spray”. Anyway, although Jeru’s song …
WORDS & ART Jake Grove I’ve been working with Wheelbase for a little while now and I’m stoked to announce something new—my monthly column. I’ll be sharing my views on skateboarding as an outsider, insider, rightsider, wrongsider, backsider, frontsider, and a no-sider. If you don’t know me, I’m a skateboarder, a photographer, an aspiring artist, …
WORDS Rachel “Bagels” Bruskoff ILLUSTRATION Kris Haro It is absolutely incredible to witness the growth of women in …