Camcorder Downhill Classics is our latest Wheelbase Magazine video series and features digital home-movies of downhill skateboard racing from the late 1990s and through the early 2000s. This was the heyday of downhill skateboard racing on prime time television—an era where Biker Sherlock and a cast of other downhill skaters helped put downhill skateboarding back […]
Introducing our third ASPHALT BARRELS follow-run. This series featured downhill skaters from across the world getting way, way shacked on their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy East Coast ripper Jacob Hales as he froths a deep & winding blacktop-tube somewhere in the state of North Carolina. Filmed by Matthew McKeon of Team Broke Off. __________________________ If you’d like to […]
Camcorder Downhill Classics is a new Wheelbase Magazine video series featuring digital home-movies of downhill skateboard racing from the late 1990s and through the early 2000s. This was the heyday of downhill skateboard racing on prime time television—an era where Biker Sherlock and a cast of other downhill skaters who helped put downhill skateboarding back […]
Here is numero dos of our new ASPHALT BARRELS follow-run series featuring downhill skaters from across the world getting way shacked down their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy East Coast ripper Marshal Parrish as he surfs a deep & winding blacktop-tube somewhere in the state of Georgia. Marvin’s perhaps? Anywho, filmed by Matthew McKeon of Team Broke […]
ASPHALT BARRELS is our new follow-run series featuring downhill skaters from across the world getting so pitted on their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy Mason Chiaramonte as he surfs a deep & winding blacktop-tube somewhere in North Carolina. Filmed by Matthew McKeon of Team Broke off. __________________________ If you’d like to see your gnarly follow-run featured on our […]
RANGER is a tribute to finding balance & exploring nature through the lens of downhill skateboarding. Set on a lesser known asphalt barrel in Southern California, RANGER takes you through a single day’s session—rolling its visual revolutions up and down and revolving temporally through graded rotations so as to reinvigorate and revitalize your sense of stoke. […]
It’s a familiar sensation. A protracted return to the world around me, cradled by my hammock’s synthetic material. I gently swayed above the cracked white paint of the bleachers below. Pulling myself upright was enough to expose me to the morning sun. Its intensity rudely forced recognition of the previous nights descent into vice. […]
Words & Photos: Jake Grove You know you’re in for a rad day of skating and shooting when you get a call from the Rad Train Conductor, Jimmy Riha… San Diego is home to countless all around amazing skate spots, and an abundance of steezy shredders to shralp them up! Living in the […]
It is very easy to get caught up in today’s media driven age in which the sentiment of “if you didn’t get it on video, it didn’t happen” rings all to true. Nearly every single skate trip, whether it be a group of professionals or just the local skate crew getting down, is now almost […]
WORDS & ART Jake Grove I’ve been working with Wheelbase for a little while now and I’m stoked to announce something new—my monthly column. I’ll be sharing my views on skateboarding as an outsider, insider, rightsider, wrongsider, backsider, frontsider, and a no-sider. If you don’t know me, I’m a skateboarder, a photographer, an aspiring artist, […]