Are surfing and skateboarding separate sports and separate cultures? Or did wave-riding begat “sidewalk surfing” of the 60s while skate tricks and aerials of the 70s brought innovation to surfing? A ...

Albee Layer pulled off what looked like an original move on a surfboard. Soon after, the royalty of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding began a debate about what to call it. It was mid-May when ...

The ten page, handwritten document shown here has descriptions of many different skateboarding tricks and the directions on how to execute them. These definitions were written by Michael Hays in ...

Surfing came first, and in the early days, riding waves in the water had a huge influence on riding concrete waves on land. Hence the “Bertlemanns,” or sidewalk layback carves, done on the streets of ...