#skateboarding

11 teams of professional skateboarders recently traveled down to The Big Easy and teamed up with Red Bull to takeover an abandoned airport terminal. It is as if Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater came to exist in real life, which is epic. The annual Red Bull Terminal Takeover continues to produce some of

Founder of VANS sneakers, Paul Van Doren, opened up the The Van Doren Rubber Company with his brother in 1966 in Anaheim. In 2004, VANS was acquired by the VF Corporation for an eye-popping $396 million. That is an eye-popping sum of money for a shoe brand that was operated out of a small store at

As any fan of the long-running Jackass series knows, former member Bam Margera has had quite the struggles with addiction during his life, particularly following the death of his best friend Ryan Dunn in 2011. These days, however, Margera seems to be in a moment of health and happiness, as he’s

Rune Glifberg is a name I haven’t heard or thought about in possibly two decades. But there was a time and place in my life when the Danish skateboarder was a bigger part of my life than my own dad. I’m talking, of course, about my Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 phase when I used to put in like 5 hours a

If you ask a random person on the street who the greatest skateboarder of all-time is the answer you’re most likely going to get is ‘Tony Hawk.’ But if you ask Tony Hawk, or many of the OGs of skating, who the greatest skater of all time is the answer you’re almost certainly going to get is ‘Rodney