I spotted this vid over at sissy’s site. Gotta be the coolest longboard skating I have ever seen. One guy even got some of his tricks from Per Welinder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLFZcONQAs

These banks are replicas of the King City banks, a legendary Oregon skate spot that was never meant to be skated and now defunct… Once again Dreamland Skateparks pushes the boundaries of cutting edge skatepark design by incorporating inspiration from unintentional historical skate spots. Photo by Jeff Petersen

Check out this post over at treehugger about Kris Lovett and her skate shoes.

Portland continues to get spoiled with ever more skateparks springing up in and around our city. What’s more these aren’t generic skatepark designs. Each park has cutting edge and unique features. Here is a photo of Dave Fitzpatrick with a steezy frontside rock and roll on the brick banks at # 3 of the eventual 19 [...]

The Brits seem way ahead of the game in terms of electronic publications. Check out Drift an online surf rag and Tweaker a skate version. Both are beautiful to look at with worthy indepth content. So good, I almost wish they did print versions…

Cold War skateboards have been putting out decks for a few years now. They are a Portland based company but unlike most other skate companies they get their blanks from a local source, Portland’s M and M, who actually press and cut decks in their own basement. It is all very DIY with great graphic [...]

We just sent the latest off to the printers, so keep an eye out for it in a few weeks. We have more really great stories for you like the one I’d mentioned before, the Riding the Spine crew in the Copper Canyon of Mexico. The update on the front page of the wend site [...]

If you are in Portland this Thursday, come by. I’ll be repping Wend and Foulweather…
Skate art, photos, skate zines, free food and drink–come see the ½ pipe in front of City Hall put together by Commissioner Sam Adams.
August 2nd 5:00-8:00pm
Portland City Hall: 1221 SW 4th

Apparently in an effort to boost tourism, Capitola in Santa Cruz County wants to reintroduce the legendary Capitola Classic, an annual downhill skateboard race. While, nearby cities are making efforts to build skateparks, Capitola wants to re-visit the now fringe discipline of downhill. If they pull it off, it will be one of [...]

Buddy Nichols and Rick Charnoski of NCP films have put out several impressive skateboarding documentaries. In recent years there has been an abundance in skatboarding documentaries that focus on legends and personalities from the pool and halfpipe era of the 1970s and 1980s. This new flick is unique in that the lead character is the [...]