A new city park planned for under Fuller Warren Bridge in Riverside will include a fancy, flowing skateboard attraction split into three sections depending on skill levels. That would have seemed like ...

Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors? It's fairly well-known that a drought in southern ...

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The common belief is that the Midwest lags roughly two years behind the West Coast in terms of style and culture. It usually takes that long for the breaking fashions and societal trends to originate ...

When 68-year-old skateboarding legend Tony Alva carved through the concrete bowl at the Surf Skate Expo in Cornwall, a point ...

With more participants under the age of 18 than baseball, skateboarding is undoubtedly ingrained in our culture. And as the sport continues to grow in popularity, it's fun to look back on the early ...

Skateboarding has been a staple of American counterculture for at least 60 years, carving out a niche as one of the world’s most popular “extreme sports.” Popularized in Southern California in the ...

Understand this: Even if Dennis Martinez knew then what he knows now, he still would have hopped O.J. Simpson’s fence. Skateboarding empty pools was Martinez’s primary pastime in the mid-1970s, and ...

In 1977, Michelle Thibodeau, left, and Ellen Moomaw skateboard shoeless on the side of an Interstate 10 overpass near McDuff and Post streets, a section dubbed "The Wedge" after a dangerous surf spot ...

With more participants under the age of 18 than baseball, skateboarding is undoubtedly ingrained in our culture. And as the sport continues to grow in popularity, it's fun to look back on the early ...