Skateboarding
Invented in the 1950s by southern California surfers who sought a way to surf without waves, skateboarding has itself experienced several waves of popularity. Almost universally outlawed...
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Free Will and Expression
Skate boarding is not a crime! Why is it that our society frowns upon the typical
skateboarder? Is it because of the looks or is it because of the crewed form of
art wh...
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Can you not live without something? Anything? Give it a thought. Music? T.V? Or perhaps a pair of legs? Well I'll tell you one thing, ever since my friend showed me a skateboard and we were just ridin...
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A protest of the city's reinstatement of a police officer involved in a fracas with skateboarders drew more than two dozen chanting protesters to the scene where the boarders were arrested.About 25...
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Skateboarding could make its Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games.The International Olympic Committee said Friday it has held discussions with cycling's world governing body about introducing ska...
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Two skateboarders who were videotaped in a scuffle with a police officer in downtown Hot Springs have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges.Neither was sentenced to jail time.Skylar R. Nalls, 1...
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A police officer who appeared to choke a skateboarder and put two others in a headlock in a video posted online used appropriate force when making his arrests, an internal police investigation foun...
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A police officer who appears to choke a skateboarder and put two others in a headlock in a video posted online has been put on administrative leave while police investigate, officials said.Hot Spri...
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goes.” Mr. Mahe doesn’t ride to work every day (“Some days it’s all you can do to find your way to the train,” he said), but he has joined a contingent of late–...
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On the evening of May 31, 2006, a shaggy-haired teenager in Buffalo, N.Y., peddled his skateboard toward a flight of concrete steps and launched into the air. A few seconds later, Mason Jukes lay a...
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Skateboarders aren't exactly obvious eco warriors, but Pierre Andre Senizergues is no ordinary rider: he's the CEO of Sole Technologies, the parent company of Etnies. We caught up with him to talk ...
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Christian Hosoi wants to explode. The 39-year-old skateboarding legend steps onto a board he just made and drops into the boomerang-shaped, outdoor bowl at Quiksilver headquarters in Huntington Bea...
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Cannes, France (dpa) - In US director Gus van Sant's Paranoid
Park, which premiered at the Cannes film festival Monday,
skateboarding is a dream-like world for helping its t...
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