The internet is a wonderful thing! When you have access to it, you’ve got the world at your fingertips! But when you don’t, you spend several hours driving around Vancouver, BC looking for a coffee shop with fast enough wifi to allow you to upload Episode 3 of the Keep On Tuckin’ Tour in the …
Greetings from a crusty McDonalds parking lot on the shores of the Columbia River near the Maryhill Festival of Speed! After making the trek from the Los Angeles, then Santa Barbara, onward to San Francisco, and then Portland, Oregon, we have finally arrived at Maryhill with a few minutes to relax, let the grooms feed …
For Wheelbase Magazine, the San Pedro Shred: Festival of Skate began three years back, when we held our first downhill skateboarding event in San Pedro, California under the name “San Pedro Shred“, which was an unsanctioned, slide jam event with an unprecedented turnout of over two hundred-plus local and international downhill skateboarders. We started that …
Greetings from a rainy and somewhat chilly Portland! After making the trek from the Los Angeles area to Santa Barbara and onward up through San Francisco, we have finally found ourselves a minute to relax and reflect on the radness that has occurred thus far. We have also found a reliable internet connection, so we …
In English: When you travel to a new place you bring along with you physical baggage, and also cultural baggage. What I mean by “cultural baggage” is all the collected preconceptions and misconceptions you’ve learned about that particular place and it’s people. When I jumped on the plane to Monterrey, Mexico a couple weeks back …
This year’s 2014 Catalina Island Classic was good times as usual. This event is one of our favorite races of the year. Shit, it’s held on an island off the coast of Southern California: warm sun, refreshing ocean beaches, deliciously strong beverages, and a backdrop of awe-inspiring scenery. Hell yeah! And that’s not even mentioning …
Wheelbase Magazine’s Video Recap: The Ithaca Skate Jam is a community-centric downhill skateboarding event that features ramps, slopes, a whole bunch of radness, and a solid grasp on the DIY lifestyle. Perhaps most frequently acknowledged as being the home of Cornell University, the town of Ithaca, New York is also home to a sustainability-oriented community. …
Jamie Jacobson, method air. Photo: Brian Babish. MuirSkate Longboard Shop has been throwing the Downhill Disco annually for the past five years. In that time, we’ve watched as the event evolved from a hippie-jump-heavy cones course to a hang-time-heavy downhill skateboarding party, with some slalom cones thrown in to mix it up a bit. Knowing …
Bombing hills is fun, racing your friends down hills is super fun too; doing both on a racetrack that skaters, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles have been rolling on since 1957 (skateboards since 1980) is extremely, super, and doubly badass! Our friend Conner Welles and the dudes over at NHS revived the Laguna Seca race back …
Puerto Rico is always a good way to start off the race season—a place with beautiful landscapes, amazing hills (EVERYWHERE!), epic parties, and lots of ladies. After embracing the East Coast cold for a while, this Puerto Rico trip presented itself with perfect timing—a nice getaway to embrace some warmth and sunshine! The Puerto Rico races started off with …
Jacksonville’s Kona Skatepark has been around since the early days of the skateboarding we have come to know and love. (1977 to be more precise.) Home to a large snake-run, plenty of ground space for camping, and Florida’s totally radical climate, it’s no wonder that Kona Skatepark has become the destination of choice for hundreds of North …
Slide jams are serious business these days. Billions upon billions of dollars and countless man-hours are invested in such events every single day across the entire globe. And 9 times out of 10, the winners of these events go on to become Mega Longboarding Super Stars with huge corporate contracts and baller mansions and other …
Quality skateboarding, like quality motorcycling, is all about craft, community, and freedom. The Moto Radventure is our annual ride in celebration of this confluence. This year, the second year of the Moto Rad, we hit the road starting in Los Angeles, California. We made our way up to Santa Barbara, and ultimately, we headed back …
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” The above quote by Hunter S. Thompson might as well be the official motto for this past …
Do you like wriggling through cones? racing winding roads in sexy leather suits & full-face helmets? hurling yourself over long, sketchy gaps? tearing it up on banks & walls? slashing hardily over whoop-tee-doos? or simply shredding long, tasty ‘thane lines? If you answered “yes” to one or more of the above then you need to …
The East Coast is hands-down one of the most vibrant, diverse, and raw downhill skate communities in the world. The skaters back East are some of the most talented and passionate skaters on the planet. With much of the industry of skateboarding residing on the West Coast, East Coasters must continually make shit happen for …
What do you do if you’re a skater that loves to go fast but there isn’t one damn hills worth bombing within 30 miles? Well, that is exactly the dilemma skaters in Houston, Texas face—but we’ve found a solution and it’s in the garages! What started many years ago as a simple solution to a …
Exactly one month ago our Keep on Tuckin tour was on the final leg of its adventures and hangin’ in Whistler, BC Canada for Arbor Skateboard’s downhill race. What an epic finale to an amazing road trip! We meet so many rad skaters, we lurked heavily with black bears, we gave away a hardy supply …
When you set out on a true adventure you never know what’s gonna happen. You can organize and strategize all you want, but once you hit the road all of that shit flies out the proverbial window. On a true adventure you are protected by little more than the mercy of Mother Nature and the …
Maryhill: Festival of Speed, 2013. . . ummm. . . okay, I’ve got ten minutes to write something really in-depth about the event. Well. . . fuck it! Anyway, the event was grand and fun and stuff. We definitely skated Maryhill a lot (backside & frontside), we drank stuff, some smoked some stuff, we lurked heavily …
Twelve hours later, after leaving the Sunset District of San Francisco, we rolled into the ever-radical city of Portland, OR at five AM. Specifically , the PDX Skatehouse—home of JP of Rip City Skate, the legendary ATV of shred, Casey Morrow, as well as a solid cast of other serious Oregon shredders. We all passed …
The Angie’s Curves event all sewn-up and the shredding shredded, we piled in the Muir van and drove through the night to meet up with Big Dave and the Sunset Sliders crew in San Francisco. We arrived the next morning at 5AM after a couple inopportune pit-stops. We lurked on Ocean Beach for a spell, …
The first stop of our “Keep on Tuckin’” tour brought the crew to one of the gnarliest races to date: Angie’s Curves. Hidden in the rolling hills near San Diego, California, Angie’s Curves is a steep and winding strip of road that only a select few have ever skated. Multiple speed-checks into hairpins coupled with 60+mph …
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 …