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“When I was very young, I was like, ‘oh, I’m a boy. I just am,’” Leo Baker recalls of his childhood. For years, Baker tells TIME, he put questions about his gender on hold as he grew a successful career as a skateboarder, going on to win a series of…

While the Olympic Games have been taking place for over 100 years, they haven’t always looked the same. New Olympic sports, events, and medal opportunities have been added and removed over the years of the competition—and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be no different. The competition—which is scheduled to kick…

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Evolve Skateboards make electric skateboards and have just launched the Hadean Series, with 4x times more performance than its predecessor the GTR series which launched back in 2019. There’s now 37% more battery capacity and a crazy top speed of 50km/h, double what’s found in electric scooters and eBikes. The…

Avril Lavigne is sending us back to the early '00s with her TikTok debut. On Monday, the "Flames" singer posted her first video on the app, and it's a nod to her "Sk8er Boi" roots. Decked out in her iconic tie and tank, Avril lip-synched to the pop-punk hit that…

Published: 7:30am, 21 Jun, 2021 Updated: 8:31am, 21 Jun, 2021 Read More

OlliOlli World is a new approach, but the skateboarding still ownsThere was a moment while I was playing OlliOlli World‘s demo where I stopped thinking about how to ollie. That didn’t mean I forgot; it was just that I was so locked into everything else, the ollie was becoming reflexive…

When Prerna discovers a love for skateboarding, she struggles to balance her passion and local traditions.  Kerry Monteen/Netflix In the opening scene of Skater Girl on Netflix, a teenage girl tugs on a purple rope attached to a rudimentary skateboard made from a slab of wood and scrap metal wheels.…

A skateboarding game with wings by Liam Doolan Sat 12th Jun 2021 Skateboarding has experienced a bit of a resurgence in the land of video games over the past few years. For example, in just a few weeks the Birdman himself is bringing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2…

The title of this documentary about the making of the mid-90s exploitation picture “Kids” is a rebuke to the way that movie was perceived when it came out, as a truthful portrait of a lost generation devoted to sex and drugs. The survivors of that experience who are interviewed in…