The first time I stood on a skateboard, I was in high school. I was transferred from an all-Black school in Detroit to a predominately White one, and learning to navigate a new cultural ...

Skateboard pumping on transitions is a fundamental skill that allows skaters to generate speed and maintain momentum while riding half pipes, bowls, or vert ramps. In this step-by-step article and ...

In America, skateboarding can be a punky act of youthful rebellion, or at least a way to get away from your overbearing parents for a bit. In Afghanistan, it's all that and much more. Learning To ...

The first day I wore my oversized Volcom hoodie to school, a floppy-haired boy with torn-up shoes told me I couldn’t wear it. He asked me, Do you even skate? No, I didn’t skate. When I got home, I put ...

Not much positive news tends to come out of Afghanistan, but a pocket of it shines through in one of this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a ...

Jordan Calhoun is the Editor in Chief of Lifehacker and author of Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture. He’s been featured in places like The New York Times, Kotaku, The Root, ...

(KGTV) - Learning how to skateboarding in 2018 is a lot more user-friendly than in the past. Today, kids have countless skate shops around the country and, of course, the wealth of the internet to ...

"It's completely secluded. You can skate with no shame here." How many people tried skateboarding when they were a kid? And how many gave up quickly after trying? Has this kind of "giving up" ...

Grandmother-of-two Karyn Bennett is a fixture at skate parks in her native Sydney. The 57-year-old took up skateboarding less than two years ago. She broke her foot and her shoulder in two places but ...