The Parking Block Diaries

We experience skateboarding with all of our senses, but we consume it with our eyes. Ironically, when you are actually skating, what you...

Ron Allen gets a lot of respect for skating hard and putting out street parts at 53, but to really get it you have to put that number...

When Welcome skateboards apparated onto the scene in 2010, they immediately got attention for putting out boards that looked like no one ...

The exchange between skateboarding and music is  as old as skateboarding itself, a cliche really. As a fanatical skater Lucero guitar...

Skating often captures the imagination of those who lack the will, temperament or dedication to take it up. This is why trends like r...

Not me...but pretty close In recollecting all the shenanigans and illuminations surrounding my first ever quarter pipe session in Jim...

I've always loved that little clip from Speed Freaks where the late, great Jeff Phillips declares: "I skate for fun and that...

WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE AXLES!!!! There are things in life so ingrained that we never notice how weird they are unless we take a big ...

If you are familiar with the work I've done with The Ride Channel or even hung around the Parking Block Diaries Facebook page, yo...

In the days before I stumbled upon my first issue of Thrasher magazine, seeing the odd skater flying off a launch ramp or doing an inve...

This is the second part of series of posts about one of the most important days in my skateboarding life. Read the first part here . I...

The ever popular, Truck-Grab Butt Stall When I hit up Kristian Svitak to do a Slapchat, I figured it would be the the journalistic equ...

The slappy: it's oh so much more than a skateboard trick. Its an attitude, a way of life, a philosophy. Every once in a while we g...

(Mine had neon green zigzags) “Wait! I’m locked up again.” Monty’s bike skidded to a halt in the gravel at the end of the drivewa...

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...