Some may think that San Diego is always blue skies and sunny but this isn’t always true. For example, we have something locals call June gloom. June gloom happens when the air near the ocean's surface is cooler than the air above it creating a blanket of marine layer of clouds that sometimes does not clear up for an entire day. However...

500 phones out grabbing clips and live video at the NYC Street Invite, but a great photo still captures a moment in time that’s open for interpretation. They provide moments that can be savored, studied, scrutinized for subtle details that the quick motion of a video clip may not provide.

Ten of us left San Diego on a Tuesday afternoon in early August with a destination: Colorado. We were a caravan of vagabonds who indulged in rolling on eight wheels, gathering wood, making massive fires, soaking in hot springs, shocking ourselves in the Rocky Mountain waters, chowing on the local burger scene, and pulling at local parks like we owned ‘em.

While standing among the crowd assembled at Modern Skatepark in February 2023, watching some qualifying round of the 10 year anniversary Bitter Cold Showdown as Derek French landed a solid TTS across the tombstone, I realized that not too many people in the skatepark knew what happened to Derek and Mike French during the last 15+ years. This is their story.

One of the highest levels of achievement in the world of action sports is earning a pro-model item with your name on it. For rollerbladers, while there are pro frames, wheels, shirts, and more, the big ticket item with the most prestige is a pro skate. The allure can be motivating, intoxicating, frustrating, and, for most, unrealized. But for some, it’s a dream come true…

Step up your daily blade representation with the three flavors of this blade-centric pattern for your computer or phone wallpaper. Can you spot all the tricks and recognize all the skaters? Let us know in the comments! And tell us if we should make more! Thanks to Alan Hughes for sending these through.

For twelve years the Blading Cup has been an annual tradition on blade calendars, and a growing presence in the Santa Ana community. And for each of the previous outings, the event has fundamentally been judged the same: skater are grouped, skate in groups for a few minutes, the highest judged skaters are pushed on to the next round, and so on. But this year, for the second showing of the "Spring Cup," the event organizers are mixing things up and introducing a new format: cash for tricks...

On a weekend spent up in the northwest of England visiting friends, I couldn’t help myself in keeping one day free to go hook up with my favourite North Welsh dude, Tom Barrio. The plan was to have a day of adventures along the beautiful North Welsh coastline, with the hope of bagging a few snaps along the way...

Ten years may have passed since the last BCSD but the excitement raged on as an international field of bladers took to the course at Modern Skatepark for a chance to earn the title of BCSD Champ. After a long day of impressive blading and exciting tricks, Luke Naylor took the title with an incredible Finals-round showing where he leveled up in real time, linking highly technical tricks back-to-back to come out on top. Congrats to everyone that came out to Detroit for the event and each and every competitor, with special thanks to Daniel Kinney for making it happen “one more time.”

Winterclash 2023 went off! Julien Cudot took his third win — a first for the event — and a whole bunch of the most exciting blade talents from around the world descended onto the recently refurbished Area 51 skatepark to prove who would earn a place on the top 3 podium. There were hard slams, impossible transfers, jaw-dropping switch-ups, and the high energy, crowd-stomping atmosphere that only comes around once a year every February in Eindhoven. Congratulations to all the competitors and thanks to the organizers and volunteers that make Winterclash possible. See you all next year!