by admin | May 10, 2023 | Community, Competitions, Industry, Opinion, Skateboard, Social Media
What does the right-wing online video platform Rumble want from its partnership with skateboarding’s premier contest? Street League Skateboarding (SLS) kicked off its 2023 season at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena on April 29. From a competitive perspective, it was...
by admin | Apr 6, 2023 | BRA Community Partners, Community, Competitions, News, Olympics, Skateboard
For Alexis Sablone, skateboarding was never supposed to be the thing, which is not something you expect to say of a person who does their thing at the Olympic level. But Sablone is a multi-hyphenate who walks the walk, an artist and designer and architect with...
by admin | Mar 24, 2023 | Competitions, Olympics, Surf
Just imagine putting an inexperienced young WSL or ISA Olympic hopeful into the kind of position that almost killed heavy water veteran Rodrigo Reinoso. Photo credit = Ted Grambeau Recent headlines concerning Kelly Slater’s Olympic aspirations has me...
by admin | Mar 16, 2023 | Competitions, News, Surf
Caity, at just 17, captured her first Championship Tour victory. Photo: Damien Poullenot//World Surf League “We’re seeing a generational shift here in Portugal.” Well, duh. That was overwhelmingly the overused phrase from the broadcast during the MEO...
by admin | Mar 7, 2023 | Competitions, Snowboard
Elena Hight with a tricky exit off a knuckle of terrain that suits her style perfectly. Photo: Tom Monterosso//Natural Selection The white dust has now settled on “Boulder Park,” a gnarled chunk of terrain in the Canadian Wilderness outside Revelstoke that...
by admin | Mar 3, 2023 | Competitions, Legends, News, Olympics, Surf
If Kelly Slater makes the 2024 Olympics at Teahupo’o, he says he’ll hang up the jersey. Photo: WSL Kelly Slater is pretty famous for retiring. Or not retiring, I guess. Famous for almost retiring? Famous for saying he might retire? Anyway, people talk about...
