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NOT QUITE GONE: BEHIND THE STORY OF PAUL ALEXANDER’S BATTLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
About a month ago, Vice released a documentary entitled, “Gone: How Mental Illness Derailed the Career of a Promising Young Skateboarder,” that focused on the story of Paul Alexander, a ripper from...
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THE GEOFF ROWLEY INTERVIEW
photo: anthony acosta / vans Geoff Rowley is a good communicator. Writing and sharing this Cosmo-ish thought with you kind of makes me embarrassed, but I only mention it because, from my experience,...
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SKATEBOARDING AS A CAREER WITH RYAN LAY
switch boardslide / photo: weston colton For all the diversity people tout about skateboarding today, it can still feel really tightly controlled. Ryan Lay stands out because he doesn’t do what’s...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH BUBBA, A NATIVE AMERICAN SKATER FROM PINE RIDGE
bubba MCing / photo: galen clarke As you may already know, we took a trip with Levis skateboarding this summer to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to check out a skatepark they were finishing...
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JUSTIN BROCK ON BEING BROKE, ADDICTIONS & THE SOUTH
photo: gabe morford Skateboarders are freaks, no doubt about it. Those of us who are lucky enough to have gone on tours or seen ridiculous feats go down in person know, the tricks are insane, but...
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VANESSA TORRES ON GETTING SOBER & THE SKATEBOARD INDUSTRY
photo: brett wilhelm As much as some of us don’t want to admit it, in 2015, skateboarding is still a “guys industry”. Sure, there’s more girls skateboarding now than ever, but the opportunities for...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH A PROFESSIONAL FINGERBOARDER
Let’s travel back to the late ’90s and early ’00s… You’re sitting in class, Lou Bega’s “Mambo #5″ or that Blue da-ba-dee song is stuck in your head, the teacher’s droning on about algebra or grammar...
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MEET SKATEBOARDING’S FORMER DEMON CHILD, KNOX GODOY
photo: sean garrison In the 00s, Knox Godoy was everything your parents hated about skateboarding, in the form of a 7 year old boy. He was a little redhead kid from the Baker clan who cursed more than...
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AN INSIDE LOOK AT WELCOME SKATEBOARDS
photo: stephen cox If you told me several years ago that Welcome Skateboards was going to be a successful board brand in 2016 I would have laughed at you. With graphics that look like they were taken...
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THE COREY DUFFEL INTERVIEW
photo: dan z All those guys going big in the late ’90s and early ’00s were always exciting to watch because it felt like they could really get hurt. And they did. I’m not trying to take away from what...
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JOSIAH GATLYN’S LIFE AFTER SKATEBOARDING
photo: david stoessel If you’ve been skateboarding for more than a couple of years, you most certainly remember Josiah Gatlyn. He’s the guy who kickflipped over that basketball hoop, got “discovered”...
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CLINT WALKER’S KING OF THE ROAD MISCHIEF
photo: morgnar If you’ve kept up with Thrasher’s King of the Road contest over the last three years, you’ve come to know Clint Walker pretty well—you might even think he’s a bit of a dick. We’ve seen...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH VASU SOJITRA, THE ONE LEGGED SKATER
photo: seth langbauer Everyone that has ever stepped on a skateboard knows that it’s hard. It takes weeks or months just to feel comfortable riding it, and it could take years to learn a simple...
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MIKE CARROLL ON THE FUTURE OF CRAILTAP
photo: nick zegel Skateboarding always likes to refer to itself as one big family. No matter how many billions of dollars the industry makes, we want to see company owners and riders – bosses and...
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INTRODUCING STATE FOOTWEAR, A NEW SKATEBOARD SHOE BRAND
While there is an overabundance of startup skateboard brands popping up over the past 5 years, they’re pretty much all board brands or clothing companies. The market for skate shoes on the other hand...
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THE BUSINESS OF GROWING SKATEBOARDING IN CHINA
photo: dani bautista / guangzhou, china A lot of people talk about China being one of the next big potential scenes for skateboarding, but after visiting several cities, I think we’ve got a ways to go....
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DAVIS TORGERSON ON “NAPTIME”
photo: cameron strand Yesterday we put up a video filmed and edited by Real’s Davis Torgerson, but we wanted to get the full scoop on whether dude is hanging up the Formula 4′s for filmer wheels or if...
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WHERE’S JOHNNY LAYTON?
photo: ben karpinski Having a career as a professional skateboarder is a fleeting thing, and people come and go within a blink of an eye. But it’s not everyday that someone still well-respected by the...
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MAKING MOVES WITH TAYLOR NAWROCKI
photo: palozzolo Big risks create big rewards, and it seems for Taylor Nawrocki, he’s still reaping the benefits of his move to NYC. Taylor was your usual working class dude from the Midwest before he...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WORLD INDUSTRIES’ CUSTOMER SERVICE GUY
There are few brands within the skate industry that have a more notorious and convoluted allure than World Industries. Almost two decades since its heyday, the brand that pretty much invented and...
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