Chris Haslam gives a skateboarding demonstration at Innoskate 2013 in front of the National Museum of American History. Image courtesy Innoskate. The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of ...

“In the early ’90s, during a time in my life when most of the kids that I knew in high school had just gone away to college, my friends and I were squeezing into cars on moment’s notice, headed for ...

Explore the last decade of skateboarding and its push for inclusivity and diversity with this excerpt from “Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding.” Betsy Gordon and Jane ...

Tony Hawk was once the biggest name in action sports between his highly popular Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game series and the incredible tricks that he accomplished on a skateboard during his days ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naomi Folta heads out on a group ride with GrlSwirl in Venice Beach. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones / For The Times) Steph Serra recalls ...

Skateboards are not complicated design objects. They consist of little more than a simple deck, usually made of wood, which forms the riding surface. The board is completed by a pair of trucks ...

How one photo became a cultural touchpoint, mirroring those rarely seen in skateboarding culture. When photojournalist Andrew Craft scanned a forgotten photonegative from the Fayetteville Observer ...

To the naked eye one may not assume that the scorching desert would be the pioneer-land to skateboarding in the 1960s, but you'd be wrong. Arizona is widely considered to be home to the world's first ...

It might seem strange to think of skateboarding as a historical topic, but the truth is that metro Phoenix is a place where the wheels have spun for a very long time. To celebrate that tradition, ...

For Black History Month, San Diego State University’s Center for Skateboarding and Action Sports and Social Change hosted a forum featuring one of the most legendary photographers in skateboarding, ...