Skateboarding Articles
We began the Articles area by writing informational articles - how-to sort of stuff. Then we got pissed off by a number of things and began writing about them. Finally we realized that most of our articles fell into groups of similar categories. Thinking we were onto something BIG, we continued writing. Well, nothing big surfaced, so we just kept writing anyway. Enjoy!
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Skateboard Article Categories:
Skateboard Parts & Assembly Articles
- Decks - The wooden thing.
- Trucks - The turning things.
- Wheels & Bearings - The round things with smaller round things inside.
- Putting It All Together - Assembling the wooden thing, the turning things and the round things.
Skateboarding Glossary
- Skateboard Glossary - Skateboarding terms, slang and jargon defined. Most everything you need to know from A to Z.
Educational Articles (á la) Skateboarding
- Skateboard Glossary - Skateboarding terms and jargon explained. Everything you need to know from A to Z.
- The Elderly - Skating's not just for kids - Get out there and grind you old farts!
- Kids - If you can't share the parks and streets, we'll just kick your asses!
- Bearing Maintenance - A step-by-step look at how to clean and maintain your bearings.
- Skate Tools - Outfit yourself with everything you need to maintain your board.
- Shoe Goo - How To Repair your expensive sk8 shoes.
- Gorilla Tape - More than your average duct tape with a ton of uses.
- Go Skateboarding Day - It's official. June 21 is the day to ditch school, work and responsibility to GO SKATE!
- Roller Girls - Pose at the mall, not at the skate park.
- Loading the Pimp Sled - Preparing for a skateboard road trip.
- How To Clean Your Pads - Avoid the stink factor.
- Stink Foot - Taking the stink out of skate shoes.
- Shop Clowns - Good help is hard to find in the world of skateboard retail.
- Game of SKATE - How to play - It's just like the basketball game, HORSE.
- Villa Villa Cola - Female skateboarders get tough and organized over at Pippi Longstocking's crib.
- New England Winters - Each Winter we endure the cold, break out shovels, use tire-chains... and skate. Avoid ramp rot.
- Skateboard Manifesto - Skateboarding gives, but it never owes.
- Make Your Own - Jump back to 1977 and see if you'd make a sk8 like this.
- Crews, Not Gangs - What if sk8 crews went militant?
- Every Friday - Time to save the skateboard industry.
- Instructional "How-to" Videos - The low-down on learning to skate from your TV set.
- Who Dat? - Nicknames can be fun as well as annoying.
- Separation of Church and Skate - Jesus was a carpenter, but I doubt he built half pipes.
- Deck Technology - Things companies do to improve wood.
- "Sponsor Me", Um... No Thanks - Technology loses to the heart of skateboarding.
- Foot Locker Buys CCS Skateboard Mailorder - Strangling skateboarding from the Mall to the Net.
Skateboarding Interviews
- STP Interview: Alicia Grosso - Creator of Sk8kleen Soap - the only soap made for skaters. Cuz it's lame to reek!
- STP Interview: John Leizear - An extrordinary skateboard advocate and Executive Director of Skaters for Public Skateparks.
- STP Interview: Tracey - A Southern California extreme sports Mom.
- STP Interview: Victor Giannini - Artist, author, skater and creator of Skeightfast Dyephun.
Advertising & Marketing Articles about the Skateboard Industry
- Sex Sells... or doesn't - Sexy girls will always be alluring, but is it necessary for selling a skateboard product?
- Non-Skate Advertisements - The insanity of sk8 sponsorship gone awry
- Juliette Lewis and her DVS Signature Shoe - Can the punk-rocking ex-wife of a pro skater bring in the bucks with her own shoe model?
- The Block Hotel - The highbrow way to shack up in Lake Tahoe.
- Pogo - Redesigning the Science of Bounce.
- Don't Do It Campaign - "Big business" tries to capitalize on the hard work of others.
- The "Blank" War - Blank decks -vs- pro models and your commitment to supporting skateboarding.
- Sk8 Debt - Credit card companies will always want to use you. Don't let them!
- Tower Records - The demise of a great indy record store by way of "Big Business'" greed.
- Myspace - A popular fad connecting skaters and everyone else.
- Above the Influence - But missing the target audience.
- CCS Girl Catalog - Skateboard retailers recognize female skaters ...and their money
- Pottery Barn Gets Gnar - Absurd prices are hip... just add a skateboard.
- SkateGirl Documentary - exploring the history of women in skateboarding.
- Chronicles of a Skater Girl - A narrative film about a female skateboarder.
- Ridgemont Mathematics - (Vans - Spicoli) x facsimile2 = Emerica?
- Chinese Wood - Bad porno title or bad skateboard decks?
- Active Girl Catalog - "T&A" is the new "SK8".
- Twitter Your Skate Scene - Give twitter a try from your phone. It's a slick way to get your crew to a sesh.
- Julia Roy Can Re-invent Skateboard Networking - She's blonde, smart and may have just the answer for skateboard marketing via social networks.
Creative Arts In Skateboarding Articles
- Grip Tape Stencils - Art in unlikely places.
- Temporary Art - Chalking Up a Masterpiece.
- Ink Your Fashion - Using stencils and fabric ink to pimp out your clothing.
- Converse's Customized Chuck Taylor Hi-tops - Get creative and Converse will make the shoe of your dreams... and personalize it.
- Wooden Canvas - Let a blank deck inspire your next artistic masterpiece.
- SK8 Furniture - Turning skateboard decks into functional SK8 furniture.
- Covert Architect - Blending a passion for SK8 culture into a job.
- Etnies Custom Shoes - Design you own unique shoe online.
- Built to Skate - Melding street skating with skate park design and architecture.
- Living Room Skate Museum - Display your skateboards like works of art or easily store them out of the way.
Skateboard Magazines
- The LIST - our (semi)complete listing of sk8 magazines, both print and online.
- Demise of Big Brother - An innovative sk8 mag... R.I.P.
- Grind Twelve ‘Zine - How to start up and publish your own Sk8 Zine.
- Skateboard Magazine Subscriptions - See a price comparison of newsstand -vs- subscription pricing.
- Dave Carnie Interview ‘04 - Never met the guy, never spoke with him, but I did manage to pilfer this interview for your reading pleasure.
- Demise of SG Magazine - Surf | Snow | Skate Girl.
- Juice Magazine - "Pools, Pipes & Punk Rock" AND the best sk8 mag ever published.
- Thrasher's S.O.T.Y. - Skateboarder of the Year.
- Concrete Wave - A skateboard magazine with an extraordinarily unique edge.
Alternate Skateboard Media Articles
- Do What You Love - Tony Hawk speaks out on NPR radio.
- School Sucks - Even if you're a teenager with a cool income.
- Private Mega Ramp - Bob Burnquist's $280,000 backyard ramp.
- Zero Ain't No "0" - A look at the Jamie Thomas empire from the front page of the New York Times.
- Dyrdek Dwells - Dwell Magazine takes a look at Rob Dyrdek's skate plaza in OH.
- Dwell Salutes Indie Art Publications - Dwell Magazine gives props to indie art publications like ANP Quarterly.
- Cool Girl Skateboards - Getting skate product to the ladies.
- Skateboarding in New England - The Boston Globe looks at some of the North East's skateboard issues.
Skate Park Articles
- Toy Parks - Don't waste money on cheap imitations.
- Skate Plaza - Rob Dyrdek's contribution to skateboarding and the city of Kettering, OH.
- "Inside" is the new "Outside" - Dubai takes snowboarding out of the desert and into the mall.
- Habitat Demos Wellfleet - Habitat's East coast team hits the Wellfleet skatepark on Cape Cod for an inHabitatnts demo.
- Vans Demos Wellfleet - Vans roll into Wellfleet, MA for a cool demo and hot dogs.
Scarfing Material
Our ode to Thrasher Magazine's long gone column of semi-palatable recipes.
Health in Skateboarding Articles
- Water Is Refreshing - You want an energy drink? It's called water!
- Heat Stroke - There's No Reason to Die From the Heat
- Fat Free - Goodbye to chips, fried crap and sugar-laden drinks - taste has returned and it's healthy.
- Pads Are Cool - You heard me! And if you're smart, you'll wear them.
Skateboard Humor
- You know you're old-school when...
- Chuck Norris can ollie.
- Less Than Sk8 - Alternate sports that are not as cool.
- Sole Technology Institute - Biomechanics research dedicated to the study of skateboarding. Are these guys for real?
- Top Ten of Everything - Everyone has an opinion... so do we! Here are our Top Ten lists of everything (well, many things... or some things).
- $7,000 - Would you rather have a half Pipe or a RealDoll?
- Trick Picker Cootie Catcher - A third-grade approach to picking a sk8 trick?
- Dear Santa - Do you want a wooden toy made by an elf or a skateboard?
- For God's Sake, Crissy - Former porn star leaves the smut industry for skateboarding God.
- Letters to the Editor - What happens when you beseige sk8 mags with peculiar letters? Let's see.
- Wrench Pilot - A comic strip published by Transworld Skateboarding Mag from 1989 through 1991.
- ESPN's Ultimate Degree of Difficulty Rankings - Skateboarding sinks to #37.
- Plastinated Skater - Proving that skateboarding is gross.
- Call Me at (215) 720-2615 - Get a phone number that let's ‘em know what you're all about.
- The Oscars 2006 - Skateboarding gets robbed again.
- Skate-or-Bait: Girl's Fashion Quiz - Can you discern sk8 style from everyday fashions?
- Skateboard Toys - Even if you don't make any skateboarding products, you can still make a buck off the Sk8 industry.
- "Back To School" - Don't forget your quarter-pipe! - CCS wants to make sure you have all the pens, pencils, notebooks and sk8 obstacles necessary for starting off the new school year.
- The Western Hat Helmet - Who says helmets aren't cool? Cowboys sacrifice style to combat skateboarding's anti-helmet attitude.
- Big Brother Art Critic - A look back at an awesome letter showing Pete Smolik's pilfered style from the 1400's.
- Creativity and Diversity Will Revamp Skateboard Videos - You don't have to re-invent the wheel to make skateboard videos engaging and lasting.
- $800 Billion Skate Shop Bailout - Forget Banks and Wall Street! Give the bailout money to independent skateboard shops.
Miscellaneous Articles
- NY Comic Con - Skateboarding and comics mix a little bit more.
- R.I.P. - Remembering those who've passed.
- Skateboarding & Global Warming - Al Gore says chill out.
- Beware: Owl Moon Daycare - A word of warning to any one seeking daycare in Massachusetts.
Key:
- Articles that may (or may not) appeal to women who skateboard.
- Articles with retro and old-school appeal.
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