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5 TYPES OF SKATERS YOU WILL MEET IN COLLEGE
1. The Jockboarder: Somewhere along the line, when skateboarding reached the X-Games and longboarding rose to popularity, jocks realized they wanted a piece of the action. They wanted to look edgy and...
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JEREMY & JONAS WRAY LAUNCH WRAY BROS SKATEBOARDS
Sometimes when skateboard companies aren’t doing it for you, you gotta take matters into your own hands. And in this case, “skateboard companies” would refer to Element, and “aren’t doing it for you”...
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6 THINGS YOU SHOULD STOP PUTTING IN YOUR SKATE VIDEOS
For being as creative and out of the box as skaters like to say they are, skateboard videos are still pretty formulaic these days. If you’re making a video, feel free to print this one out to remind...
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HOW DO YOU GET A JOB IN THE SKATEBOARD INDUSTRY?? PT. 2
Let’s face it, if you have ever spent any significant amount of time on a skateboard, you have probably dreamt about working in the elusive “skateboard industry” at one point or another. So several...
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SKATEBOARDING & JAZZ: A BRIEF VIDEO HISTORY
western edition skateboards Whether we like to admit it or not, skateboarding is made up largely of dichotomies. You can be hesh or fresh, rock or rap, tech or gnar, carcass tosser or manual master,...
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5 MORE TIPS FOR BEING A “COOL GUY”
“Forget” people you’ve met before: It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve met the person, if they aren’t in your crew, just pretend you don’t remember them. Imagine you have short term memory loss,...
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10 BEST CURB ROLL OFFS OF ALL TIME
Historically, people created curbs to separate carriages from people. And while I imagine they still serve this function in some places (Scotland? Disney World?) they do more now. For one, they can be...
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5 THINGS SKATERS DO THAT “NORMAL” PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND
1. “Test” tricks with our hands You know when a spot catches your eye and you just HAVE to go up to it and start imagining all the trick possibilities? And then you hold up your hands and pretend like...
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IS SKATEBOARDING READY TO OPENLY EMBRACE A TRANSGENDER SKATER?
Is skateboarding ready to embrace an open member of the LGBT community? A few years ago I would have answered the following question with a definite no. Shit, even finding a home for this story would...
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MAKING UP LEGENDS IN THE ERA OF ZERO BUDGET SKATEBOARDING
Skateboarding is about nothing if it is not about itself. We are the men on the street talking to ourselves without shame or remorse. Even when we are doing it we are watching it done – it is beneath...
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