WORDS & SCREENSHOTS Marcus Bandy Memes are awesome! Downhill skateboarding is awesome! Put the two together and: Awesome! Awesome! Recently, there has been an explosion of Instagram accounts launched within the downhill skateboarding community focused on memes and jokes and jabs and stuff targeting the DH industry, other skaters in it, other communities in it, and …
WORDS & PHOTO Marcus Bandy This is a tribute to all of my fellow lone wolves—a shout-out to the skaters and creators who understand the necessity and value of purposeful isolation. Some of us learn this value willingly while other are forced to learn it. I myself fall somewhere in between having discovered the enjoyment …
WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTO A. Mazon Affilatestein The topic of this week’s Action Now column is simple: There’s a whole bunch of fake-ass “longboard Review” websites out there these days and many of them are so SEO heavy that all three Fat Boys sitting on top of two sweaty walruses while eating a basket of McChubbles couldn’t even …
WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTO Aaron Enns This week’s Action Now column is simple: Ask me stuff and I’ll answer that stuff. Also, that spider on my shoulder is hairy like my back. Ewwww! Anyway, please try and keep your questions positive and focused on skating, rad shit, awesome stuff, photography, adventure, my puppy, gardening, motorcycles, skateboards again, and …
WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTO David Ruano Change is upon us and the writing is on the wall. Skateboarding is evolving big time. So much so that it’s a bit scary and confusing at times. Where’s it going? Who’s leading? What’s next? But the crazy thing to remember is that you as a skater are the answer to …
WORDS & PHOTO Marcus Bandy No Locals. Kooks Only! Yeah I said it—I’m fully backing the fuckin’ kooks up in here: the nerds, the geeks, the artsy-asses, the thinkers, the tinkers, the readers, the painters, and all the guys and gals who give zero about what anyone else is doing—the skaters who have no interest in …
WORDS & PHOTO Marcus Bandy I’ve been involved with skateboard competitions for over 25 years now—anything and everything from small skate shop contests and regional amateur leagues to Word Cup street skating circuits and currently professional downhill racing. During these same years, and concurrent throughout my involvement in the traditional sporting side of skateboarding, I’ve also …
WORDS Marcus Bandy For me, skateboarding is an amazing sounding board for creatives to share ideas, culture and politics, and music has always been one of the main forms for creative communication in our community. I feel so grateful for all of the rad music and ideas that being a skateboarder has allowed me to enjoy …
WORDS & PHOTOS Marcus Bandy For this week’s Action Now column I’m here to discuss one of my more recent passions: Dogboarding. Simply put, dogboarding is a shrednasty interspecies bonding activity betwixt us humanoids and our canid companions, it provides quality exercise for our four legged friendos, It’s a shitload of fun, and it is a …
It is absolutely paramount for my personal happiness—as a skateboarder and creative—to set aside time for play, or what I like to call Mind Spray. Mind spray is not something I just made up right now—I was first introduced to it via Jeru The Damaja’s OG hip hop track “My Mind Spray”. Anyway, although Jeru’s song …