Awesome Skateboarding

The Zenga Bros. teamed up with BOOOOOOOM! and Flexfit to create portable skateboarding structures, including a ramp on wheels, a boat with a ramp and a grind rail underneath and a half-pipe that rolls on train tracks.

“It’s hard to know what’s more sketchy—skating the most rudimentary spot, or being the most rudimentary spot.” The Berrics improvise ramps and roads using a couple pieces of plywood – and each other – in this sweded skateboarding video.

Formic is a CGI/live-action short animated by Roman Kaelin and Florian Wittman which gives us an ants-eye view on the universe, as the tiny insect does its best to survive the dangers of a typical day at a skatepark.

Just as it did with its new cross trainers, the Nike SB Free skateboarding shoe inherits the Free’s flexible outsole and lightweight construction, while the suede and mesh upper and thick rubber sidewall ensures the shoe stays tough.

(NSFW: Language) Eric Lerner created this amazing short film which seamlessly merges the real and animated worlds, as skatepunk Gabriel shows off his sick moves. Buy Orel Tamuz & Tal Yogev’s dreamy electronic score here.

This video may make you want to try out downhill longboarding. It just seems like the right combination of freedom, relaxation and excitement. Give it a couple of minutes, and it’ll change your mind right back to NOPE.

A creepy old psychiatric hospital in New York serves as the backdrop for JENKEM’s skateboarding video. We were waiting for them to bump into the crew from one of those ghost hunters’ TV shows. Some great still photos here.

Vimeo member Brandon Rein and his friends made one of the most pleasantly unique skate videos you’ll ever see, featuring a rock formation as a skate park and a scenic view of Sierra Nevada, topped off with bluegrass music.

While it’s not quite the hoverboard we were promised in Back to the Future 2, the Hendo does actually exist. Here, pro skater Tony Hawk and his buddy Dave Carnie give it a whirl. No grinds, kickflips, ollies, or pogos here, unfortunately.

Pro skater Arto Saari scored a unique setting for this team skateboarding video – Finland’s Helsinki Airport. From an airplane hanger to the terminals and runways, the high-security setting serves as a great backdrop for the team’s trickery.

Made by HEXBUG, these tiny remote-controlled skateboards can do tricks just like the pros, if they were reduced to the size of mice. The premium set includes one motorized R/C skateboard and a complete miniature skatepark.

Cy Kuckenbaker used his mesmerizing time collapse trick to showcase the skills of 15-year old pro skater Cory Juneau and promote the Nokia Lumia 930. It took 6 weeks to edit the 90-second video. Behind the scenes here.

Devin Supertramp captured skateboarders zipping through Lindon, Utah’s Banzai Skatepark, as they rode through a veritable ocean of blue balloons. Despite the occasional pop, it’s way less messy than wakeboarding through cranberries.

Wanna know what separates a trip to the hospital from a funny viral video? A helmet. YouTuber Cameron Kirkner shares his friend Cameron’s adrenaline-infused outburst after a scary skateboard crash.

(NSFW: Lyrics) In this flick captured back on Halloween 2011 by Zenga Bros., we get a visceral look at today’s skateboarding culture, with raucous, fireworks-filled skatepunks tearing up the Leeside Tunnel in Vancouver, BC.

To promote Arbor Skateboards, KJ Nakanelua takes us on a downhill run through Hawaii at a pace that we’d have trouble keeping up with in a car. Kudos to chase cam operator Nate Shute for capturing the action so flawlessly.

A skate video in what appears to be a deserted Los Angeles. Russell Houghten used After Effects to pull off the visual trick. Russell will send any donations to his video and proceeds from the stills to Los Angeles county animal shelters.

This awesomely colorful candy for our eyeballs combines Kandy Kruisers’ Firecracker LED wheels, Chris Chann’s skateboarding talents, Darren Dyk’s slow-motion camerawork effects artist John Felipo’s VFX to amp things up.

A few years back, this guy in Slovakia gave new meaning to the term “rail grind” with his own single-person trolley car, made from a wooden pallet and wheels that set into narrow-gauge tracks. It’s great until you run into an actual train.

According to The New York Times, by age 14 girls are twice as likely to drop out of sports as boys. The Pink Helmet Posse want to beat those odds. These 6-year-old girls dream of becoming professional skateboarders.

Rival skate crews battle for the attention of babes in Thrasher Magazine’s rad and irreverent homage to the ’80s skateboard scene. The only things missing are the grainy VHS filter and bad dubbing. Also, nobody had a beard in the ’80s.

(NSFW: Language) Eight professional skateboarders travel to Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. This beautiful film by Patrik Wallner of Visualtraveling is part skate video and part travel documentary.

While most of us would choose a pack of huskies or malamutes for our dogsledding team, George Evans clearly thinks outside of the box, being pulled at breakneck speeds by his four pit bulls while riding his skateboard in Florida.