The Parking Block Diaries

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 in my early twenties, back in a time when skaters still had to contend with the question of “how old do you have to be before...

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...

1988 was the year I made the transition from being a kid with a skateboard to being a “skateboarder”. The distinction between the tw...

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 ...