The Parking Block Diaries

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

For decades, skateboard magazines have dealt mostly in celebrity.  Skaters buy mags to see and read about the exploits of famous skat...

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

My days of peak skill on a skateboard are long past.  In fact, at 42, I may be one ankle injury away from never popping an ollie again....

Bill likes them. When Speedlab Wheels started in 2002 it wasn't about cashing in, it wasn’t even an act of rebellion against bi...

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...

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

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...

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...

Courtesy Skateandannoy.com 1985 was the year Back To The Futur e came out, the year I got my first wide-bodied department store knock-of...