Skateboard

VISTA, Calif. (AP) Three-time world champion Nyjah Huston of Laguna Beach tops the 2020 USA Skateboarding National Team heading into the sport’s Olympic debut in Tokyo next summer. The 24-year-old Huston is considered the gold medal favorite in men’s street.…

Skateboarding at 40+

For the last couple of years, I was a frequent visitor to a magical place, a place where, honestly, I had no real business being at age 42: a skateboard shop! I was instantly a kid again, trying to figure out how many lawns I'd need to mow to buy…

Hard-charging skateboarding pioneer, Hockey frontman and Fucking Awesome co-founder, Anthony Van Engelen is teaming back up with Vans to released a Holiday 2019 Pro Collection, centered around a fresh “Rainy Day” take on his signature AVE Pro. Over his treme…

I really miss Skate. EA abandoned its flagship skateboarding series for some reason, despite passionate cries from fans to revive it. When I first heard about Session, an attempt to capture Skate's magic, I was sceptical. But after reading this preview by fel…

LONDON —Gucci is taking to the streets for its latest watch campaign, Gucci Grip, named after the grip tape that skateboarders use. The brand has collaborated with skaters in cities including London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul, for the new campaign. In…

I used to email Brendan regularly trying to offer him freelance work, and he’d always be too busy with other jobs. Little by little we got him doing more and more for us, though – a weekly free games column called Free Loaders here, a weekly Premature Evaluat…

To go along with our online cover story, we spent time with Na-Kel Smith in his native Los Angeles and in New York City for his concert in our new documentary Hard Nak Life. The skater-turned-multi-hyphenate got candid looking back and his path to going pro a…

FRONTPAGE is Highsnobiety’s weekly online cover story exploring the people, moments, and ideas shaping culture today. For the second edition of our series, Highsnobiety’s Robbie Russell explores the mind of Na-Kel Smith.  At 25 years old, Smith skates for Su…

Skateboarder Scott Oster and Chicago-based architectural firm MANA have installed a skate ramp dubbed Le Cube at Paris’ Le Bon Marché department store. The six meter-square cantilevering square features a 360-degree full-pipe plywood skate ramp, which is ill…