Maryhill Festival of Speed is set to return for the 2015 IDF racing season. We’re not surprised to see it come back for the ninth year running (this event brings one of the best turnouts in the scene) but we sure are stoked for the downhill skateboarding and mini-ramping goodness! We will be there in full force […]

Downhill skateboarder and top-mount collector/aficionado, Max Capps, has made a video detailing his design process for his personalized (and radical) downhill decks. In this example he’s chopping up a Sector 9 Downhill Division “Lacey” Deck into some sort of downhill ripping machine. We’re stoked on the personal touch that a customized skateboard entails. Be it […]

Testing the Gullwing “Reverse“: We took these trucks out to a scenic spot overlooking the Port of Los Angeles to see what they were made of. Features: The Gullwing “Reverse“ come with a 182mm hanger and 47 degree baseplate. They feature a raked, reversible hanger with a raised grinding surface, increased axle height, built in speed […]

WORDS & PHOTOS Ali Mehraban The majority of human emotions can be conjured by the act of skateboarding. The joy of accomplishment, the aggressiveness of persistence, and the fear of failure are felt by all skaters in practice. The unrelenting battle of commitment and frustration, followed by a self-determined conclusion of either radness or sadness, is […]

Hot Heels Africa, the final race of the IDF and SAGRA downhill circuits, took place on December 11-14, 2014. The race itself is filled with the top downhill riders from around the globe along with some excellent views of a beautiful South African landscape. This recap takes advantage of both with some strong follow cam […]

Flyer artwork by Jay Cronin. Houston, Texas‘ first-ever sanctioned garage skateboarding race is less than a month away. The Bayou Battle is gearing up to be a weekend filled with awesome experiences both on- and off-board! (See that schedule below!) We’re particularly fired-up for this event as we are big fans of the skateboarding scene […]

Testing the Jet Skateboards “Vulcan” Deck: In order to text this board we hit some of our local hills in the South Bay. Features: The Jet Skateboards “Vulcan” is a 37.5” x 10.0” rockered downhill deck, with a 26.0″-30.4″ adjustable wheelbase. It features flush-mounts, flares, ample wheelwells, and is constructed in the USA with 9-plies of maple. […]

Take it from Abec 11 Wheels and Jet Skateboards: Don’t Crash Here! Or there. Or anywhere for that matter. But if you must, do it with some style like Jordan Crosby. (After all his stylish hill jammin’, this dude takes a walloping and comes away clean! Good on you, sir!) And if you must film your homies skating down some hills, do it like Aviel Hod has done […]

WORDS Haydon Reese & Erick Barrandey PHOTOS Erick Barrandey It stared about six months ago, when after a couple years of talking about doing a race out on this one hill in San Marcos (which is about thirty minutes south of Austin and the home of Texas State University) I decided to finally just say fuck talking, […]

Testing the Cloud Ride “Ozone” Wheels: In order to understand what the Cloud Ride “Ozone” wheels are all about, we grabbed some friends and hit some small paths and steep descents in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Features: Cloud Ride’s “Ozone” Wheels measure in at 70mm in diameter with a contact patch of 37mm. The Ozone’s centerset […]

Gullwing Trucks just squeezed out this video of Will Royce making moves deep in the Colombian mountainside. . . Deep enough that Pablo Escobar chose to live on the property situated at the top of the run! Hills like these induce curiosity towards the historical and infrastructural backgrounds of downhill skateboarding’s rudimentary factor, the road. […]

This is Team Dream Team. It is an awesomely over-the-top edit featuring some funboarding (and some abstractboarding) by Dillon Buss and friends. Does art imitate life? Or does life imitate art? What if skateboarding is life? Is skateboarding art? What type of art is skateboarding? All the types? Yes. We have the questions after seeing this video. Further, […]

Testing Landyachtz “Dinghy” Deck: For our testing of this board we hit the streets, slashed some banks, and found a couple new spots along the way. Features: The Landyachtz “Dinghy” is 28.5” long, 8” wide, mini kicktail board featuring a 14.6” wheelbase, mellow concave, a small nose-kick, ample wheelwells, and is constructed of 7-plies of […]

Testing Blood Orange “Liam Morgan Pro Series” 70mm 84a Wheels: For our testing of this wheel, we got pitted on some steep and winding local asphalt barrels. Features: The 70mm, 84a “Liam Morgan Pro Series” wheel features Liam’s signature urethane formula, a 32mm contact patch, with a 2.5m offset core. This signature Blood Orange wheel also […]

Team Mids dropped this stack of follow cam action on their YouTube channel and we figured y’all would enjoy it. We sure did! #JustDownhillThings #UGK #Jenkem #Buzzword #M4L Riders: Matt Deitch, Pete Laf, Mac Holmes Filming: Kai Salam Edit: Mac Holmes

Our Texas homies at Carve Skate Shop & Team NoBull have teamed up to present what they’ve been calling “the first legal garage race in U.S. history”. The Bayou Battle, as it’s called, is a three-day skateboarding event held in Houston, Texas and it features a little sumpin’-sumpin’ for all types of board-riding fiends: ditch skating, bowl & park […]

What advice do you have for a guy who still loves skateboarding as much as when he was 20, but his body is 35? I’m not content just doing push races, I want to continue to learn new slides, new mini ramp tricks, and reach new DH speeds, but my body isn’t allowing it due […]

Bustin Boards has started up a new initiative dubbed For All Who Push to highlight skaters, artists, and musicians who are pushing it whichever way they see fit. There’s some pretty rad related content to be had on the Bustin site, but the video of Noah Fischer (as seen above) has caught our attention. Noah’s […]

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