A new city park planned for under Fuller Warren Bridge in Riverside will include a fancy, flowing skateboard attraction split into three sections depending on skill levels. That would have seemed like ...

Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors? It's fairly well-known that a drought in southern ...

Tap in to the journey of skateboarding behind the iron curtain from the 1970s and 80s Soviet-era slalom days through the raw and sketchy DIY underground of the 90s and 2000s to the thriving modern ...

Hugh Holland's 1970s photographs of kids and teens skateboarding in empty swimming pools and boardwalks in Southern California are a perfect snapshot of the wild, frenetic energy of that era. Holland ...

The common belief is that the Midwest lags roughly two years behind the West Coast in terms of style and culture. It usually takes that long for the breaking fashions and societal trends to originate ...

When the history of skateboarding is told, the influence of the U.S. is everywhere. From the early days documented in Dogtown and Z-Boys — and the much-told story of California’s long, hot summers — ...

Skateboarding has been a staple of American counterculture for at least 60 years, carving out a niche as one of the world’s most popular “extreme sports.” Popularized in Southern California in the ...

With more participants under the age of 18 than baseball, skateboarding is undoubtedly ingrained in our culture. And as the sport continues to grow in popularity, it's fun to look back on the early ...

Understand this: Even if Dennis Martinez knew then what he knows now, he still would have hopped O.J. Simpson’s fence. Skateboarding empty pools was Martinez’s primary pastime in the mid-1970s, and ...