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Skater XL Review Skateboard

Skater XL Review

Skater XL's exit from Early Access doesn't feel like a proper 1.0 release, with disappointing levels and a lack of polish letting its good trick system down.By Mat Paget on August 11, 2020 at 4:10PM PDT The world is full of spots. They invite you, seducing you into skating on…
bubmag
August 12, 2020
Freestyle skateboarding brilliance, the Uefa Cup and Ronnie O’Sullivan | Classic YouTube Skateboard

Freestyle skateboarding brilliance, the Uefa Cup and Ronnie O’Sullivan | Classic YouTube

1) Things are hotting up at the Crucible, where the World Snooker Championships are in full swing. So here’s Ronnie O’Sullivan talking us through what is widely considered to be the greatest break of all-time, his 92 against Ali Carter in the 2012 final. Now here’s the Rocket in 2014,…
bubmag
August 6, 2020
Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture Skateboard

Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture

They’re called “strangergrams.” That’s what twenty-four-year-old professional skateboarder Andy Anderson calls them, anyhow. Brief, Instagram-length video clips featuring Anderson skating around the streets of his hometown of White Rock, BC, or Toronto, or Montreal, or Huntington Beach, California. These videos are filmed by complete—you guessed it—strangers. He simply asks a…
bubmag
July 28, 2020
Instant Opinion: ‘the global Covid-19 crisis isn’t close to over’ Skateboard

Instant Opinion: ‘the global Covid-19 crisis isn’t close to over’

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Adam Tooze, professor of history at Columbia University, in The Guardianon the need for a continued and coordinated responseThe latest figures are a wake-up call: the global Covid-19 crisis isn’t close…
bubmag
June 30, 2020