We’ve all seen them around campus: students pushing their skateboards, longboards and penny boards around in a technique that looks like the board is towing the skater along and he or she is ...

Getting into skateboarding can be one of the most exciting yet intimidating experiences. There's a certain thrill that comes with stepping onto a board for the first time, but again, it's often met ...

Skateboarding is a lot harder than it looks: in the past two months, I've acquired four new scars to prove it. Experienced skaters make gliding up a concrete ramp, inexplicably flipping the board in ...

The first and last time I stepped on a skateboard, I was 8 years old. I tried to go down our driveway (it was sloped), I hit a crack, the board flew out from under me, I fell, and I vividly remember ...

Say what you want, but skateboarding has undeniably transitioned from a niche hobby for outcasts to a mainstream sport over the past decade or so. We can thank the Olympics for that, social media, or ...