The collaborative crushboarding cronies crew of MuirSkate Longboard Shop and Wheelbase Magazine cruised out to Albuquerueuqueureque ABQ, New Mexico earlier this spring to take part in a non-event that definitely doesn’t exist, but could hypothetically be referred to as Ditch S.L.A.P. The recorded & edited collection of animated photographs (the R.E.C.A.P., that is) you see before you was collected by …
The 2nd annual Catalina Island Classic went down in style this year. The racecourse was winding & technical, the event organization was stellar, and this time around the skaters were allowed two days of shredding on the hill rather than only one. Insert a smile here. Tall and panoramic peaks surround us as we float …
The 2013 Muir Skate Downhill Disco was an epic three-day event filled with excessive shredding and some serious downhill festivities. San Diego is a badass locale and the downhill community is doubly as badass—slap those two pieces of the puzzle together “Disco-style” and what you get is one of the raddest skate-weekends of the year! …
Many of you have already seen at least some visual remenance or heard at least one tall-tale attempting to explain exactly what happened this past Saturday between the hours of 10am and 4pm, atop & flowing downward from each side of the legendary Gaffey Street hill in the City of San Pedro, California. Well, we are …
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 …
The Guajataka Downhill event is held annually in the small town of Quebradillas (Pronounced something like: “Cameron Dias”) on the northwestern shore of the tropical Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. This year’s 2013 event was much like those of years past, with thousands upon thousands of pina colada-toting spectators overflowing the length of the entire roadway, a huge pool of downhill skateboarders …
A few weeks back, just before the new year, we decided to get the Wheelbase Team together for a little “family outing.” Liam Morgan, McLovin’, Amanda Powell, Pete Eubank, Justin Preston, Marcus Bandy, Ryan Evans, and Dubes all piled in the Resource Distribution van, along with two mini kegs of Stone Brewery’s “Rumination” as well as …
Earlier this month, well over two hundred skateboarders from across the globe either hopped on planes or piled into various other people-movers, and converged on one of the longest standing skateboard parks in the world: Jacksonville, Florida’s Kona Skatepark. Each and every one of these skaters traveled to Kona for one reason and one reason …
Skating down Barrett Junction is a Wild West type of downhill experience—harkening way back to the days of the true outlaw, a rougher and much ruggeder time when simply to survive was the struggle of the day!
Please enjoy our coverage of the “Skate For Life” Slide Jam held last month in Harlem, New York the day after the 2012, Broadway Bomb. This awesome event was organized by the ever-epic Steve Kong of Earthwing Skateboards. We are proud & extremely stoked to have had the opportunity to attend “Skate For Life”, and as you …
Wikipedia tells us that Menlo Park is an affluent ($$$$$) town on the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. According to these Wiki peoples, it’s one of the most educated areas in all of the United Stated with 70% of its populous having earned some sort of advanced degree. There were definitely some …
On Saturday, October 20, at noon, skateboarders from all over the globe and numbering close to 2,000 individuals converged upon the world renowned Broadway Blvd in the heart of Manhattan. A handful of these shredders come every year in order to race for cash down the eight mile stretch of road between 116th and …
The Moto Radventure is Wheelbase Magazine’s first annual celebration of, and an exploration into, the undeniable connectivity between skateboarding and motorcycles. With the recent explosion of downhill skateboarding, it is now more apparent than ever just how connected skateboards and motorcycles really are. A huge thanks goes out to AJ & Scott of Muir …
Sessioning a mini ramp with friends is definitely one of the funnest things you can do on a skateboard. It doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a street technician, a pool shralper, a downhill mobber, or whatever—if you continue to skate in the long-term chances are you are gonna spend some quality time shredding on …
The town of Britannia Beach is about 40 miles northwest of Vancouver, Canada, nestled between the expansive blue waters of Howe Sound and an ever-rising, dark mountain forest. The area used to be an old copper mining settlement beginning in the very early twentieth century; before that it was home to its indigenous inhabitants, the …
Wheelbase homie, Seth Brown of Muir Skate, recently flew up to Goldendale, Washinton to attend the “2012 Maryhill Festival of Speed“. Upon his arrival back home he put together this Wheelbase exclusive video showcasing the event from his particular lens. Get stoked! Also, make sure to peep a few of Seth’s images from the …
Attach of Danger Bay is definitely OG—a downhill skateboarding event that has been held every third weekend of May for eleven years running—rain or shine. This annual event is hosted by the legendary Bricin “Striker” Lyons of Coast Longboarding and goes down in Pender Harbor, Canada—a beautifully badass ferry-ride north of Vancouver and smack dab …
Our homies over at Rip City Skate & PDX Dh are truly hands-on when it comes to their local skate community. One of the ways in which they get involved is by throwing rad grassroots freerides and races, such as this one, whenever possible. Their community building efforts have helped foster a diverse and thriving shred community …
The idea for the Way Out Westward tour was simple. The goal being to gather as many ripping skaters as possible, pile them into a van along with some quality videographers and photographers, and then set out to spread the Gospel of Shred. We began our adventures in Abuqurquie, New Mexico at Timeship Racing’s SLAP …
Boomtown 5 was a blast! Janky ramps littered the hill everywhere. The road itself was definitely steep and windy enough to get the blood flowin’ and the ‘thane lines thoroughly distributed. The cast of skaters in attendance was both large, and in charge. The weather was fine, the industry kicked down some serious support, and …