Skateboarding has been hitting my personal que smooth like Swiss bearings. Thoughts arise of ponying up for a wooden deck with black grip tape and polyurethane wheels to cruise the concourse of the streets. It’s amazing how the landscape is transformed through the eyes of the skater with possibilities presenting themselves along a routine route. …
Last night I stumbled upon Street Dreams, a mini-skate movie on YouTube staring Paul Rodriguez and Rob Dyrdek. Before the unique sports compilation and behind the scenes storytelling of Street Dreams, Skate Mafia threw down the most technical tricks; including dark-slides 3 years ago on my big screen. While I made dinner earlier, (BBQ chicken …
At an impressionable young age, 11, I was introduced to shredding concrete via a wooden deck; on the side streets of suburbia. My first board, a G & S, with a blonde hair babe riding a rocket, with humps upfront for shifting weight, (something that would become obsolete) I learned to ollie up curbs into …