Words: Jake Grove Photos: Khaleeq Alfred & Jake Grove On the side of a mountain, in the california of canada, sits a long and winding road; one that’s steeping corners and towering trees bounce rider’s back and forth through its forest terrain. We’re talking about Giant’s Head; one of the raddest freeride events we’ve come …
WORDS & PHOTOS Jake Groove, shot throughout SoCal We are skateboarders. We are the ones you see bouncing between the traffic of the streets, speeding down mountain roads with the wind in our faces, slashing alleyways, and grinding ledges with the screech of our trucks. We find ourselves in different terrains, different spots, different features, and doing different …
WORDS & PHOTOS Josh Dunn The small town of Port Jarvis, New York was the epicenter for the gathering of a group of elite downhill skateboarders this past weekend to race in the IDF qualifier, The Mahackamack 400. This event attracted riders from all over the world, many of whom own one of the top spots amongst the current world rankings. …
ILLUSTRATION KRIS HARO The International Olympic Committee just voted unanimously to include skateboarding in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. WOW! It is important to note though that there is one more IOC session in August down in Brazil that will ultimately determine the deal for certain. That being said, most believe it has already been decided. If you …
Words: Wheelbase News Photos: Beauty Out of Babylon The beginning of May means many things to many different people but for some of us this time of year means simply one thing: Ditches. There has been an annual pilgrimage made by these Ditch Disciples for the past ten years to the event that has been dubbed …
Words & Photos: Thomas Richmond The 5th annual Ithaca Skate Jam returned to East Buffalo Street for another stacked day of riding skateboards, sharing stories, and flourishing smiles. At the root of the event in 2012, Ben Dub pitched a ramp into a PVC pole jam that pushed the envelope for building dimensional features in …
WORDS Jake Grove PHOTOS David Ruano & Jake Grove Catalina Island is a true paradise; as it is approached from the open ocean, the shimmering water, filled with vibrant orange sea creatures, all accents the majestic cove of Avalon. The colorful town of houses and shacks lines the beach, and sits between the broad and rising mountains of …
WORDS & PHOTOS Jake Grove The Muir Skate Downhill Disco goes off every year, and brings out the grooviest grinds, gaps and grins direct to the Southern California skate community. The team over at Muir has a love and devotion for skateboarding that is so rich and this action-packed weekend full of bell bottoms, ramp boosts, dance …
WORDS Greg Noble PHOTOS The Lone Star Lensmen When it comes to Texas there is a plethora of the following: humidity, guns, pickup trucks, oil wells, honky tonks, bbq joints, Mexican restaurants, churches, and downhill skateboard races. When it comes to races there is no other like the annual Gnarathon in Waco. This staple of the Texas …
WORDS & PHOTOS Marcus Bandy Not this last weekend, but the weekend before that, I loaded up my dog Colbee, a cooler, a couple-few skateboards, and my box of cameras into the Ranger and I headed out to one of my favorite places in Southern California, Kern County. My buddy Daniel Engel turned me on to the area …
WORDS & PHOTOS Jake Grove Racing at Barrett Junction is a game of strategy & nerves—a struggle to make it down the hill without slamming while still maintaining the fastest line possible. It’s super sketchy and the riders who maneuver between, around, and over the road’s wrinkles, cracks, chinks, and pitted face are the one’s …
WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTOS Erick Barrandey VIDEO David Ruano As with last year’s Bayou Battle event, I feel that a less rattle more roll approach is best, so I’m just gonna let Erick Barrandey’s images and our crew’s video—and of course the Houston, Texas garage skating community—shine for themselves, collectively. That said, please enjoy our 2016 Bayou Battle recap. …
PHOTOS & WORDS Brobrahham Lincolnlog & Jake Grove A Proclamation of Shredsgiving That, on this sacred Saturday of November in the year of Skatan twenty-twelve, a year which has been filled with the blessings of fruitful ripping and healthful thane-lines, I do therefore invite my fellow skateboarders in every part of the United Skates—and also those who shred the …
PHOTOS & WORDS Marcus Bandy New works, selected pieces, and live music by skateboarders. This is what it said on the flier for this year’s 2015 Bonzing Art Opening and it was exactly what I needed to hear to get me in my whip and truckin’ toward San Fransisco, California for a few days of inspiration and shredification-relations. A …
PHOTOS & WORDS Jake “the Groove” Grove It’s 2015 and the world still has its issues and society still has its flaws, but one thing that’s changing for the better each and every day is skateboarding, its audience, and its impact. More girls than ever are embracing skateboarding, and the culture within, and we here at Wheelbase couldn’t …
PHOTOS Austin Michels WORDS Nathan Bailey Hey guys! I’m here to give you the rundown of this year’s sixth annual Soldiers of Downhill race in Bainebridge, Ohio. I’m actually finding this article difficult to write though, but not for a lack of content. Rather, I’m simply lost on where to start off. . . That …
Please enjoy our full-length homie video featuring this year’s Keep On Tuckin’, 2015 tour—it’s crusty, lo-fidelity, shaky, blown-out, low-budget, too-long, yet it’s a super fun-filled skateboarding video featuring our entire roadtrip from Long Beach, California all the way up to Summerland, B.C. Canada for this summer’s Maryhill Festival Of Speed & Gian’t Head Freeride events. …
WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTOS Jake Grove & Marcus Bandy This year’s 2015, Santa Gnarbara event was amazing and truly reflects a hearty and diverse downhill skateboarding community in Southern California. This year’s event saw hundreds of skaters—young, old, female, dudes—and riders from all over the U.S., Europe, Canadian, and Mexico mixing it up and shredding …
WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTOS Khaleeq Alfred This year’s Central Mass 6 Skate Festival was amazing and truly reflects the vibrant, thriving, and diverse skateboarding community of the North Eastern U.S. and beyond. This year’s event saw 416 skaters from 25 U.S. states, 4 Canadian provinces—it also saw riders from as far as Australia, the Philippines, …
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTOS Jake Grove, Joe Carlson, & Marcus Bandy The choice to attend just the finals of this year’s Maryhill Festival of Speed was a collective and unanimous decision made by the entirety of the …
Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name. - Samuel Butler, Erewhon WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTOS Saemus Barnacleos Each and every year that we take our Keep on Tuckin’ trek up into the Northwest, we make …
Do you remember the 90s? Ya know, people were talking about getting piercings and getting tribal tattoos, and people were singing about saving the planet and forming bands? Well, there’s a place where that idea still exists and it has a reality, and I’ve been there: Portland! . . . remember when people were content …
When I first caught sight of it I was 50 miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since. - John Muir WORDS & PHOTOS Marcus Bandy Mount Shasta is one hell of an enchanted place and we had an amazing time skating and hanging …
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and …
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, …