The Parking Block Diaries

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

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...

You can take practically any physical endeavor and turn it into a “sport”. Just flip through the cable channels late at night and you...

For the last two years I have been one of the thousands of skaters who has embraced alternate skate deck shapes. I've ridden shovel...

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...

Skaters like to wax poetic about the virtues of core skateboarding, the values fostered by the underground...they go on about how import...

If there was a Mount Rushmore of curbs, Danny Sargent’s face would be on it, three stories high, right between John Lucero and Tom Knox....

Every year when Go Skateboarding Day rolls around, I get to thinking about other holidays skaters might think up to celebrate their cultu...

In the mid 90’s Matt Field and his Real Skateboards teammates like Keith Hufnagel, Mark Gonzales, and Greg Hunt did just as much to bring...

All photos: Jason Bash When Ohio Skater Donny Humes started Smelly Curb Zine in 1987, skating curbs wasn’t a nostalgic trend or a ti...

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...

Depending on your point of view, skaters like Ace Pelka are either saving curb skating, or ruining it forever. On one hand, watching t...

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...

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

(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...

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