Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "In the early '90s, during a time in my life when most of the kids that I knew in high school had just gone away to college, my ...

Skateboards are not complicated design objects. They consist of little more than a simple deck, usually made of wood, which forms the riding surface. The board is completed by a pair of trucks ...

Even before he was born, Gui Khury owned a skateboard, and even before he could walk, Khury was learning to skate. “I saw this mini skateboard made for kids and I went crazy so that was his first toy, ...

Can you discuss Phoenix’s skateboarding history without mentioning the band JFA? The answer is no, unequivocally. The Tempe History Museum opened the “ Dry History: Local Skateboarding History” ...

After charting British skateboarding’s journey from the late ‘70s to the turn of the millennium in Part One, the second installment of our oral history of U.K. skateboarding looks at its modern era.

How one photo became a cultural touchpoint, mirroring those rarely seen in skateboarding culture. When photojournalist Andrew Craft scanned a forgotten photonegative from the Fayetteville Observer ...

To the naked eye one may not assume that the scorching desert would be the pioneer-land to skateboarding in the 1960s, but you'd be wrong. Arizona is widely considered to be home to the world's first ...

It’s where the modern skateboard was designed, where a historic skatepark is located, where a major skateboard competition is held every year. Paul Guzzo is a former culture reporter. The Tampa Bay ...

CARSON, CA - JULY 30: Cara-Beth Burnside competes in the Women’s Skateboard Vert Final during X Games 15 at the Home Depot Center on July 30, 2009 in Carson, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty ...