As interactive public spaces and tactile surfaces, skate parks have slowly begun to shape the way we think about urban design. Beyond the boundary of parks themselves, skaters look at the architecture of the built environment outside of its intended purpose, and in turn, are rethinking how we...
“It’s on the school curriculum, you’ve got Vans paying for free access skate parks in central London, social enterprises using skateboarding to help hard to reach youth. It is being gradually integrated into the mainstream [but not in a way] that destroys its essence.” ...
From event and competition galleries to sneak peeks of new parks, exhibition galleries, skate jam pics and brand's tour galleries. Flick through photos from team and crew trips to get an insight of what went down. With photos from top skateboarding photographers, we're showcasing the best ...
We’ve featured Brinkworth’s beautifully designed skate parks on the site before when they launched Nike’s BaySixty6, a community project under London’s Westway that invited people of all ages to pick up a deck and try their hand on the ramps. The initiative was such a success that ...
skateboarding has raised heated discussions in areas where the activity, although legal(合法的), has damaged stone works, steps, benches, and parks. Certain cities oppose the building of skate parks in their neighborhoods, for fear of increased crime (犯罪) and drugs in the area. The disagree...
The new skateboarding sites are not private houses or suburban roads, hidden from public view, but univer- sity campuses, urban squares, public institutions and buildings, national theaters, and commercial office plazas, as well as the more quotidian spaces of streets, sidewalks, and car parks...
dangerous if done without caution. Some of these basics are mounting, forward-backward motion and stopping. After you mastered these skills you can try to perform basic tricks like "tick-tack". There are many venues or parks in cities that are suitable for skateboarding, you can find online...
cowritten by the beach boys’s brian wilson, was an anomaly that predates the emergence of skate punk—hard, dark, loud—and mtv. even as the sport developed, and broadened its reach as skaters moved out of drained pools and parks, off of ramps, and onto streets, skateboarding retained ...
London’s Design Museum Examines the History of the Skateboard “From Californian hills to British car parks, today the skateboard’s presence is ingrained in our everyday.” By Shawn Ghassemitari/Oct 22, 2023 3.2K 0 Sports Tapping into Saudi Arabia's Ever-Growing Skateboarding Scene Hypebea...
That's pretty much why I didn't skate in Paris. But then by the time I was in Amsterdam, since it was such a long trip, I was already skating again. It was cool to skate with Pontus. We went to some skate parks. The footage I have in mind of you so far, like from the ...