WORDS Marcus Bandy PHOTOS David Ruano & Jake Grove We kick-it at the Muir Skate Downhill Disco every single year, and we keep on coming back because the Muir family loves skateboarding and because their event reflects an unparalleled passion to ride, for community, and because the event embodies that playful spirit at the very …
Famed for its groovy vibes and funky ramps of goodness, MuirSkate Longboard Shop‘s Downhill Disco will return for the year 2015! Over the weekend of April 10-12 hundreds of skateboarders from all disciplines and areas will converge in San Diego (official location TBA) for a groovin’ downhill skateboarding par-tay! For those of you unfamiliar with “the Disco”, …
Abec 11 Wheels is comin’ in hot with the groovy Downhill Disco vibes. Truth be told, the Abec 11 camera is much fancier than ours and dagnabbit if the slow motion bits in here don’t put ours to shame! When you combine that with the camera-magic put forth by Abec 11 media master Mike Alfuso, you’ve got …
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 …
MuirSkate Longboard Shop‘s 2014 Downhill Disco is a three day downhill skateboarding event that will take place on the weekend of April 11-13. The 2014 Disco is the fifth-annual and is guaranteed to be filled with just as much fun as the rest! The general theme of the event is getting rad on skateboards, which makes it something …
If you’re going to lug your whole crew across the country (to San Diego, for an extremely rad event nonetheless) you best be planning on skating everything while you’re there! That’s precisely what this edit is. Original Skateboards has just posted the recap of their trip to San Diego for MuirSkate‘s 2013 Downhill Disco. They’ve managed …
The 2013 Muir Skate Downhill Disco was an epic three-day event filled with excessive shredding and some serious downhill festivities. San Diego is a badass locale and the downhill community is doubly as badass—slap those two pieces of the puzzle together “Disco-style” and what you get is one of the raddest skate-weekends of the year! …
Prepare yourselves and your disco sticks for an epic weekend of shenanigans in San Diego, California! This weekend (April 12-14) is MuirSkate.com’s Downhill Disco! Plan for some downhill/cones-course-esque ramp jamming by day and some level-ground ramp jamming by later day. If you’re already planning on being in attendance for the ‘Disco, leave some space on your Saturday Night …
Back for the fourth year in a row, MuirSkate’s Downhill Disco (A Freeride Style Cones Race + Slide Jam) has evolved into a three day long cluster of events that is guaranteed to have something for everyone. Everyone, that is, who enjoys skateboarding on ramps, music, skateboarding on hills, more skateboarding on ramps, after-partying*, and shenaniganizations. This …
The event season is well underway and we’ve been out and about trying to cover as many of them as possible. The reason we document so many events is because no matter it a race, demo, tour, or jam; much of the growth of the larger scene happens, on-site, at these events. It’s all about …
This weekend’s 2012 Downhill Disco was off-the-chisel, -chain, and -charts! Crazy obstacles, hella skaters, and gnarly shredding. We’re currently working on putting together a sweet full-length article of the event, as we speak. Check back regularly as the article will be dropping real soon. In the meantime, take a close look at this crazy photo of …
Lookee what we have here! Introducing Muir’s 2012 Downhill Disco presented by Wheelbase Magazine and sponsored by a whole slew of your favorite shred brands. It’s all going down on on April 14th in San Diego, Ca. We had a blast skating and covering last year’s event, so when Scott and Seth from Muir asked us to …
Pump Station, a spot appropriated a while ago by local riders, has played host to a number of events and gatherings, but not one of this magnitude. On the final day of April, a formidable collection of skateboarders, of an even more impressive variety of age and sizes, congregated at this spot to get down …
At Wheelbase, we’re not big fans of polyester shirts, bell bottom jeans, or the Bee Gees; but we’re always down for some skateboarding-disco-action. Muir Skate.com is having what seems to be a pretty cool slide jam and race. The event is being held on April 30th in the San Diego vicinity. A secret location for …
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 …
Journey with us as we jettison our latest Weekly Wrap-Up news collection for Feb 13 - 26, 2016 straight outta the cockpit of our shredworthy skate vessel (wheelbasemag.com to be exact). This right here is another one of those “two-for-ones”, as we were on a filming mission last week and were unable to get enough web-time to …
“It was a magical time and magical place! Summer, 1978, and on the road to Cascade Springs, Utah—in the Timpanogas, close to Sundance Ski Resort and the Alpine Scenic Loop drive. My friend, Kenny George, and I discovered this when we were camping out in the Uinta Mountains above Park City, and found this 7 …
WORDS & PHOTOS Jake Grove The Menlo Park Slide Jam is one of those events that I had never personally been too, but always got stoked on it just from the coverage alone. Of course, the rest of Wheelbase Fam has been shooting, skating, and representing at the event for some time, and this year …
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 …
You unlock this Weekly Wrap-Up for Feb 26 - March 11, 2025 with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of shredding, a dimension of shralping, a dimension of radnasty. You’re moving into a land of both ‘thane-lines and griptape, of wheels and of decks. You’ve just crossed-stepped over into the Wheelbase Mag Zone!!!!!!!! …
PHOTOS & INTERVIEW Jake Grove Looking back at all the different projects photography class has thrown my way I’ve realized that my friend Jasper Ohlson has been the subject for the majority of my work. With a solid understanding of photography and a serious talent for skating everything, Jasper has made for the best subject …
Howdy homies, We know, it’s already 8 P.M. and we’re just now getting around to posting this week’s Weekly Wrap-Up for April 18 -24, 2015. Well, we have an excuse: the computer at HQ literally blew the hell up—true story! Anyway, that whole fiasco took some hours to remedy, but we’re solid now, so here …
Give a hoot and peep our new Wheelbase Weekly Wrap-up for the week of April 11 thru April 17. Let’s start things off with some skater-made goodness! If you haven’t heard yet, the MIDS crew just released their new t-shirt line. We just received a couple here at HQ and we can vouch that these …
Alrighty y’all! here’s our third Wheelbase Weekly Wrap-up for the week of April 4-April 10, 2015! We are at the Muir Skate warehouse as we type this getting ready for the Downhill Disco festivities to begin. The a mini-ramp session is already getting heated! Bricin “STRIKER” Lyons is in the house as well, so you know the Downhill Disco weekend is gonna go off! Speaking …
Re-introducing the second-ever Wheelbase Weekly Wrap-up for March 28-April 3, 2015! To start things off, let us remind ya that the Muir Skate Downhill Disco is coming up soon on April 10-12, 2015 in San Diego, and also that the Comet Skateboard‘s hosted Ithaca Slide Jam is happening on May 9, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. Speaking of Comet Skateboards, they are holding a re-edit contest called …