Deathracer413 is a group of skateboarders in their 50s and 60s who feel the dangerous sport is their key to health and longevity.

So, Skateboard comes from a place of greater maturity, complexity and paradox. The extended deadline for Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech Awards is this Friday, June 27, at 11:59 p.m. PT ...

News 8 Throwback: Sidewalk Surfing and Skateboarding in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Our special “Sidewalk Surfing: A Dive into the CBS 8 Archives” premieres on Saturday, August 6.

Featured in Full Bleed and canonized when he died in 2009, Kessler best-represented skateboarding as street culture, in the ‘70s, a time that was already changing by 1979, when something ...

Larry Stevenson (RIP) founded the first modern skateboard brand, Makaha, in 1963 and invented the kick-tail in 1970. His son, who is bringing back the brand organically, gave a touching speech ...

Initially considered an anarchic form of self-expression practiced by a small band of outcasts, skateboarding exploded on the west coast of America in the late 70s and 80s coinciding with the ...

Donnie Crist was something of a legend on the Phoenix skateboard scene, where he was better known as Don or Donnie Ho.. A sponsored skater as a young man in the ‘70s, he appeared catching air in ...

As Michael Cornelius of Phoenix skate-rock band JFA says, “Donnie really is a local legend. He put Arizona on the map back in the ‘70s.” Crist died on the morning of Tuesday, July 2, eight ...

Are surfing and skateboarding separate sports and separate cultures? Or did wave-riding begat “sidewalk surfing” of the 60s while skate tricks and aerials of the 70s brought innovation to surfing?