The Parking Block Diaries

The term "old school"gets thrown about a lot nowadays. Old school tricks. Old school boards. Old school style... It's a term...

The Kid at the Transportation Unit red curb invitational. 1st place. Time to start thinking about Street League No trick can inspire...

I made a promise to myself when I started this blog that I wouldn't do lazy, click-farming stuff like top ten lists. Whether memes fa...

In 27 years as a working pro, Mike Vallely’s impact on skateboarding has been nothing less than comprehensive. In pursuing his craft, Va...

When I was a kid my dad used to tell lots of stories about growing up as one of 13 children on an Indiana farm. He’d usually trot these s...

Skateboarding now has its own quasi-holiday with Go Skate Day. Every year the occasion gets bigger and that’s pretty cool, on the other h...

The mainstream of modern street skateboarding, if you define it by what the media is selling, has a pretty high barrier to entry. The...

There are a lot more women skating today than there were when I took up a board way back in the pleistocene era of the late 80’s. Of ...

When it comes to skatesploitation, the 1986 film epic Thrashin ’ is the proverbial Vallely elephant popping bonelesses in the middle of...