Awesome Skateboarding

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series introduced skateboarding, its music and its lifestyle to a mainstream audience. Former THPS producer Ralph D’Amato is working on a documentary about the series’ origins, featuring interviews with Tony, Rodney Mullen and more.

Skateboarder Tory Pudwill is a man on a mission – to balance his board on the best, longest, and most challenging flatbars he can find. After watching this clip, we’re pretty sure it’s mission accomplished. Read more about his epic quest here.

Penny loafer skate shoes? Surprisingly, Adidas’ new slip-on looks crazy good. The Acapulco has a full-grain leather upper adorned with the brand’s trefoil logo and paired with what appears to be the classic rubber outsole. Drops 3/1/17 for $80.

Kuma Films presents footage of a fun and different way to get around the skatepark, using a pair of tiny, independent boards instead of a regular skateboard. Isamu Yamamoto – the kid in the video totally kills it.

(PG-13: Language) Watch 2016 Thrasher Magazine Skateboarder of the Year Kyle Walker and rising star Elijah Berle pull off one mindblowing line after another. These guys have titanium ankles and adamantium balls.

HUF and Thrasher Magazine’s early Holiday special for skaters. The Tour de Stoops collection features 90’s style tees, shirts, socks and caps as well as coach jackets, anoraks and shoes. The two brands also made a skate video to complement their collection.

A versatile everyday bag for work and leisure. It holds a 15″ Macbook Pro, gadgets and gear, has a water bottle pocket, and hide-away straps for your skate deck, a pocket for your action camera, and they throw in a smartphone stand for watching videos.

Patrik Wallner’s latest short contains all of the requisites we’ve come to expect from the talented filmmaker: stunning locations, stellar skateboarding, and fantastic cinematography. So sit back and relax, and take a wonderful foot-propelled ride through Southern Africa.

The guys at Braille Skateboarding test out a crazy skateboard made by Peter Brown of Shop Time, using LEGO blocks and epoxy resin as the only deck materials. Watch it in action to see how it holds up at 5:00.

It took our puny human brains a while to figure out exactly what was going on in this brief, but brilliantly edited skateboarding clip from Colin Read aka MandibleClaw’s film Spirit Quest, but if our brains have to hurt, so do yours.

Swiss pro skater Jonny Giger has on ongoing YouTube series in which he tries to recreate the special tricks from the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games. He should enlist Colin Furze’s help to pull off the Jango Jump Jet.

Stop-motion animator PES dusted off one of his classic clips, and remastered it in HD for us to enjoy. This spot for Steve-O’s now defunct skatewear brand Sneaux will put a smile on your face in exchange for just 30 seconds of your day.

We were trying really hard not to fling boogers at our classmates when we were 8 years old. Sky Brown on the other hand is already a skilled skateboarder and an avid surfer. She was even invited to compete at the 2016 Huntington Vans US Open.

Skateboarder Dylan Jones shows off a crazy trick in which he spins his board 360 degrees around the rail that it’s sitting on. It’s an impressive feat, though we wonder if he could figure out a way to combo it with a rail grind.

Filmmaker Patrik Wallner and a team of skateboarders take us inside a land most Westerners are unfamiliar with. Independent since 1991, the world’s 9th largest country (by area) is a fascinating blend of modernity, Soviet era relics, and daunting desert landscapes.

Tony Hawk might be 48 years old, but that hasn’t stopped him from riding his skateboard. Here, he shows that he’s still the man, pulling off the same incredible trick he set the standard for exactly 17 years ago. We’re amazed he’s still standing after all those falls.

While you could go spend over $1000 on an electric skateboard, you could also do what Inspire to Make did, and build one using a power drill, an extension bit holder, and a couple of other off-the-shelf items. Total cost: less than $500. Perfect for a literal cheapskate.

Skateboarders Tony Hawk and Aaron “Jaws” Homoki left behind the ramps, rails, and half-pipes of Earth, and took advantage of a Zero G aircraft to catch some serious hangtime. The biggest trick? Not hurling their guts out.

“I’m not trying to prove anything. I’m just trying to have fun.” Veteran skateboarder Daewon Song has never been comfortable in the limelight. But he’s smart enough to leverage social media to stay relevant. These days he’s playing HORSE against himself on Instagram.

Twenty three-year-old Mike Schneider founded FlatFace Fingerboards when he was 9, believing he could do better than the popular Tech Deck fingerboards. He spoke with Great Big Story about his love for the sport and what goes into fingerboard tournaments.

Shaun Rodriguez shows off is ability to skateboard without wheels, pulling off lengthy downhill slides with nothing more than tennis shoes and socks between his feet and the ground below. We’re surprised his shoes still have soles. Video by Christopher Chann.

A team of talented and thrillseeking skateboarders literally set their boards and ramps on fire, then performed a variety of cool tricks in front of the watchful lens of BeyondSlowMotion. Needless to say, don’t dare try this at home.

Once a year, The Palm Dubai’s Atlantis Aquaventure Water Park drain the water from its two biggest slides – including the world’s biggest waterslide – for maintenance. This year they invited some of Red Bull’s skaters to carve on the rarely empty pipes. More here.