On Wednesday, Tony Hawk the 41-year-old king of skateboarding became the first action sports star to get a paraffin replica of himself in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Here is a picture of Tony next to his wax figure likeness.

Here are some pictures from the X Games 15 Street Course that is being built at the Home Depot Center in Carson. From what I can tell this course is going to be big! California Skateparks just got done building the Maloof Money Cup Street Course a few weeks ago and that park was pretty [...]

Three-time Dew Cup champion Ryan Sheckler won the skate park finals and vert legend Bucky Lasek won the skate vert finals on Saturday at the Dew Tour’s Skate Open.
It was just like old times in Boston as the Dew Tour held its first skateboarding event of the season — the Dew Tour’s Skate Open, which [...]

We went to the Home Depot Center to see the much anticipated X Games 15 Super Park course. There is nice combination of wood and concrete and this course is built for speed! There is a nice big cradle that you can grind or air over which is going to be where the sickest tricks [...]

Chet Thomas has been a pro skater for a long time – he owns Darkstar, and has a long history of making great shoes with Globe. Chet Thomas retired his pro model shoe with Globe and is now the skate brand manager. I thought I would put together 10 video clips that have highlighted parts [...]

According to a post by made by espn it looks like X Games park builder Nate Wessel is talking to California Skateparks with regard to building a concrete bowl in the parking lot of the Home Depot Center. Hmm this is right down the street from my house I am going to have to get [...]

In the past, MACHNAU, HASLAM, MUMFORD, DUNCOMBE, and LUTZKA all fell under the spell of the mysterious BLACK VAN. Where it’s taken them, we don’t quite know. But alas, the youth are getting restless. The hunter becomes the hunted in EPISODE 5, as RYAN DECENZO and the GLOBE skate team are UNITED BY FATE. This [...]

Today June 15, 2009 at about 4:30 pm the last corner was finished on the Red Bull side of the Coastal Carnage bowl. I initially got a call from my friend Seth Elson from Four Star Fabrication and he gave me the scoop that he and his partner Brian Ferrel had designed the red bull [...]

Alex Perelson was ripping it up all weekend long and was landing a variety of tricks on the mini mega ramp at the Maloof Money Cup. The 18 year old from San Diego clenched the title when he was the 4th person to land a 900 in a skateboard contest. Perelson joins Hawk, Brazilian Sandro [...]

Here is a brief look at the evolution of skateboard wheels. The skateboard wheels where pretty basic in 50’s as they where just steel wheels taken of roller skates, then after realizing how poorly those handled the clay wheel came out in the 60’s. Skateboard wheel makers realized that clay didn’t handle much better than [...]