A Patagonia-sponsored athlete set out for a rather long skateboarding trip across a stretch of China that would take him over and down too many 14k mountain passes to count. He filed the story of his trip with plenty of photos and video over at The Cleanest Line. Whenever I read about these cross-country longboard [ more... ]

Ordos in Inner Mongolia contains a town built for 1 million people but just a few thousand live there. Called the “Dubai of northern China,” since it cost a ton of money and has no inherit value, a group of skaters saw the potential and headed out. This is what the world will look like when only skaters are left.

A new measure passed by the city council would require skateboarders to obey all posted speed limits as well as stop signs and traffic lights. The move effectively bans bombing the city hills on long boards, if it’s signed by the mayor. In a rather unnecessary move, the measure will also ban skateboarders from being [ more... ]

How very un-Portland. The city that installed “skateboard route” signs through its downtown is weighing a ban on skaters using the steep and windy West Hills. A very uncool board member named Randy Leonard is brining the issue before the city council on June 27th. Expect many skaters with birds printed on their clothes to [ more... ]

Yes, it seems there is such a thing as a ‘pro downhill skater.’ That our society has risen to the point that we can sustain a man who works exclusively as a professional downhill skater speaks volumes. Most of those volumes are about how much we like skating. This 8-minute video is a short doc of his average day. It’s actually a cool video, definitely worth watching.