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The Coast and What’s Up

Halifax Canada weekly The Coast, tackled the mounting malaise caused by the Halifax Police departments increasingly draconian enforcement of helmet laws for skateboarders. Whew! That was a mouthful. Sign me up for journalism school. They’ve gone so far as to use undercover police officers in sting operations. The article is aptly titled Skate Free and/or […]

Mexican street style

I don’t know what you call this kind of riding, half-ditch? Who cares, it’s rad. This is a closeup of a shot of John John Aguilar skating a ditch type situation in Mexico City, circa 1989. See that concrete halfpipe in the background? John said this was an old closed up skatepark called Dogtown. They […]

Are we there yet?

Dan Hughes and friends used Go Skateboarding Day as an excuse for self flagellation. From Bainbridge Island as far west as Port Angeles back across to Sumner up to Bellingham and back down to Crossroads hitting 16 skateparks in all. Check out his write-up at Northwest Skater.

Ain’t talkin bout love!

I been to the edge, and there I stood and looked down. You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around. So if you want it got to bleed for it baby. John Aguilar sent in this Jeremy Brown photo of his buddy John Veitch grabbing a […]

Hospital corners

Dan Hughes has a bunch of shots of the new Dreamland addition to the Bellingham skatepark. It’s an addition to the old park, so I suggested that Dan do a color overlay to show the old part vs the new. He sent the above image of the old section. The new stuff is the bowl […]

Let your fingers do the walking

If you need to look in the Yellow Pages for tips on impressing your kids, you’ve already lost the battle. This skateboarding lingo primer comes from the Bellingham Washington Yellow Pages, courtesy of John Aguilar. It’s real. You can look at the whole layout after the jump, but there’s nothing to see really.