Archive for January, 2007

Worlds Largest Skateboard Ramp

Ok I couldn’t resist, I know most of you have probably seen this before. But it’s a first for me and it’s totally sick!

VISTA, Calif. — The largest skateboard ramp in the world can be found on a 12-acre farm north of San Diego among the green foothills of the San Marcos Mountains. Pilots […]

QuadLine Skateboards?

I’m am not sure what to think of this new invention yet, it looks promising as an idea, but doesn’t look so great in terms of the aesthetics. Here is what the designers/producers say about the QuadLine “100mm wheels on Longboards and Skateboards for longboarding and skateboarding. The QuadLineâ„¢ is the fastest skateboard / longboard […]

Art of Skateboarding Website

I’m sure this will be old news to some of you, but… I thought I’d give props to this website, if only to give everyone on this site something to check out while there’s no skating to be had - at least not outdoors.)
I found this website late last night and ended up staying up […]

Longboard Skateboarder Is Still Alive!

HE HAS battled 40C-plus heat, punishing headwinds, sunbaking snakes, impatient motorists and hundreds of blisters.
But tomorrow Dave Cornthwaite will come to the end of the road when he rolls into Brisbane, finishing his five-month, 5800km odyssey skateboarding across Australia. The Welshman and his longboard Elsa left Perth in late August on his BoardFree charity skate […]

Serious fun: The art of the skateboard

TEMECULA —- Instead of being used for pulling ollie’s or kickflips, more than 20 skateboards found use on the plaster white walls of the Mercantile Gallery on Friday night for the opening of “The Art of the Skateboard.”
The art show, which will run through Feb. 4, began in typical gallery fashion with appetizers, circles of […]