Hot off the Volante Wheels channel comes a new edit featuring the talented Mr. Eric Jensen! As summarized quite eloquently by the video’s description, “Eric Jensen blew off the Canadian winter for a week to shred the hills in Northern California.” ‘Round these parts, we have good feeling about Eric Jensen and Northern California, so …
Like a bobcat in the springtime, Comet Skateboards’ Ithaca Skate Jam is creeping up on us real quick-like. Unlike a bobcat, however, in order to harness the radness of the Ithaca Skate Jam, you gotta register! “What’s so rad?” Checkit: The Skate Jam takes place on a closed street with a 15% grade and a plethora …
So I get a call from homie Connor Welles over at Road Rider a couple weeks back—he tells me that the Road Rider boys are putting together a small old-school spec-race up at the Sonoma Raceway, and he says that Wheelbase should come out and get in on the action. He further relates that …
In parallel to the program that brought the Comet FSM in to the world, Comet Skateboard’s new Cometogether Design & Test Pilot Program for 2013 has been announced. This program will offer riders (from around the world) the opportunity to take part in collectively designing a new skateboard shape for the next step in world domination coastboarding fun! …
Gullwing Truck Co has recently re-released their Pro III Truck in to the wild world of skateboarding. The Pro III was a hit, nay a cult classic, in the skate scene of years gone by and Gullwing’s edit to reintroduce the truck appears to pay homage to those days in particular. Take a couple minutes …
Holla, holla, to the rad power(s) that be behind Unkle.Ca! Unkle’s got you covered with a comprehensive image/schedule/calendar of North America’s downthehillboarding events for the upcoming year. As you can see, the events are listed in chronological order. (This puts the San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate way up there on the left! HINT HINT!) …
Following a pre-release//overview edit, Comet Skateboards has released the official “release” edit for Liam Morgan’s Signature deck: “The Morgan”. We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: We’re stoked for this dude to have a deck with his name on it. Evenmoreso, the thoughts put forth through the design of the deck are ones that should be …
Rayne Longboards has a van a.k.a. a motorhome a.k.a. a “magical, motorized living room” a.k.a. Tiffany Minx. Miss Minx, as she is apparently oh-so-lovingly referred to, transports the Rayne crew where they need to go when they need to get there. The journey at hand covers the Rayne crew’s cruise from the 2012 Maryhill Freeride in …
Wheelbase Magazine is now rollin’ mad deep in NYC. We are officially all about the bagels, knishes, pastrami on rye and getting extremely lost exploring new neighborhoods via the subway. Bustin Skateboards team rider William Royce found himself in New York City during the finnicky-weather days of early spring, and we jumped at the opportunity …
Divine Wheel Co is making the dude typing this text very jealous with the release of their Ditches Be Crazy edit. It’s currently hovering around freezing in many locations on the east coast and the thought of riding curved pavement for what appears to be an eternity while wearing shorts and a tank top is beyond …
The “San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate” is going to be an epic event indeed! Come join us on Saturday March 30, 2025 from 10 AM to 4 PM in San Pedro, CA on the corner of Gaffey & 36th St. for this one-of-a-kind skateboarding festival. The San Pedro Shred is sanctioned & permitted …
When pondering the substance of what separates a good rider from a great rider in this skateboarding-age, where so many up and comers are throwing down the most mega of lines, one must look for marks of Style. That said, my filet mignon might be your sausage filler, and vice versa. Thus, Style is something …
Landyachtz Longboards found skate spots off the beaten path and mingled with the locals during two weeks of racing in Puerto Rico. Something tells me that they (a) have been to PR before or simply (b) had a guide to all the sick spots ’round the island… Either way, we’re stoked to see how their trip went …
If I remember correctly the first slide jam I attended was back in 2009 or early 2010. Times have changed since then and today slide jams are carried out pretty differently. I remember how a slide jam was considered bangin’ if it was 30 homies basically just skating a hill with maybe a couple …
Comet Skateboards has, for you, two shiny new decks for 2013, in a videologigraphical fashion: the Archetype and the Morgan. These two decks are hereby showcased and exemplifized in the hills of Laguna by sirs Riley Crone and Liam Morgan of LBDR. We’re quite stoked to see Liam (our Wheelbase brother from his own mother) have …
Switchback Longboards be blastin’ down the hills at high speeds all the live long day, and throwing down at rad events whenever the opportunity should arise. Their recent edit for the Saltspring Slip & Slide III should serve as proof of all of the above and then some. It would also appear that these dudes like …
Fernando Yuppie is a character and a ripping skateboarder from Florianopolis, Brazil. If you do not know who he is, well, just watch this video and you’ll understand why this dude is an inspiration to so many in Brazil and across the world. Fernando is a good friend of us here at Wheelbase Magazine and …
Blood Orange is on track to drop some rad edits in their “1 Day” Series. This one heeyah features Aaron Grulich and gets right down to it with some rad skating alongside a Q&A session regarding Aaron’s opinions on life, skateboarding and a bunch of stuff in between. As expected, AFB throws some rad & …
NorCal native Nick Ronzani has now joined forces with Comet Skateboards. Comet’s YouTube Channel was graced today by a raw run featuring Nick somewhere in the hills of Northern California. Also worth noting is the solid camera work by Nick’s NorCal neighbor Byron Essert. Keep stroking the stoke, dudes!
Road Rider was established back in 1973, and hails from Santa Cruz, California. Although the brand lay in hibernation for decades, they are back on the scene with some killer riders, solid product development, and major style. The Road Rider crew has some, if not the, deepest roots in downhill skateboarding, and their recent video …
2013 is destined to be a monumental year for the downhill racing scene: Eight race tracks, on four continents, have been selected and fine-tuned to make the IDF World Tour something to write home about. Or, perhaps more realistically, a reason to post sick edits. (Case-and-point seen above.) The 2013 IDF World Tour will kick off …
The Longboard Girls Crew now has a fan page geared toward their USA branch in particular. The LGC’s USA Ambassadors — Possala Wang, Daisy Johannes and WheelbaseMag’s shreddin’ sista’ Amanda Powell — are holding a photo contest/giveaway to increase the stoke and awareness of the crew’s adventures. The photo contest details can be seen at the LGC’s USA …
Folks living in the Mountain Time Zone appear to have it made. Ditches, winding roads and plenty of highways in between make for some noteworthy skatecations. The Paris Truck Team rolled out to the zona da las montañas to take advantage of the wide variety of paved terrain and documented the trip accordingly. The riders to be seen (Griffin …
Many of us skateboarders are nomads. We love to travel to new places, shred new terrain, and with a fresh cast of rad skaters. Plenty of us in the community dare to follow our skateboards wherever they may roll, and in many cases this passion to hit the road rolling takes us around the world. …
User NotMeDrivin has uploaded a video (below) of a driver demonstrating one of the dumbest things you can do on a mountain road. The foolish individual behind the wheel has taken it upon himself to pass the skateboarders in a blind left-hand turn, in what appears to be an attempt to get a better view, while nearly killing a motorcyclist in the process. You …