Category: Sports
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The Ollie: How to Land Skateboarding’s Most Important Trick
The ollie is the foundation of street skating. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of foot positioning, timing, and the small fixes that finally make it click.
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From sidewalk surfing to Olympic sport: a brief history of skateboarding
Tracing skateboarding from 1950s California surfers nailing roller skate wheels to wood, through the Z-Boys era, to its 2020 Olympic debut in Tokyo.
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Street vs. park vs. vert: understanding the major skateboarding disciplines
Skateboarding has three main competitive lanes, and they reward different skills. Here’s how street, park, and vert differ and which suits you.
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Training Matters More Than Gear
From outdoor sports to combat sports to photography, the data is consistent: skill investment outperforms equipment investment by wide margins.
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The real story behind competitive rock-paper-scissors tournaments
Competitive rock-paper-scissors looks like a joke and turns out to be a small, sincere subculture with real strategy and mixed legitimacy. Here’s the truth.
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The Bones Brigade and the Birth of Modern Skate Culture
Stacy Peralta’s Bones Brigade did more than dominate contests. They invented the video part, the skater identity, and the visual language of the sport.
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The Rise of Women in Skateboarding: From Patti McGee to Sky Brown
From Patti McGee’s 1965 cover to Sky Brown’s Olympic medal, women in skateboarding pushed past industry gatekeeping to remake the sport on their terms.
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NIL ruined college sports and we should say it
Name, Image, and Likeness rules promised fairness for athletes. What arrived was a chaotic auction that hollowed out the programs it was supposed to help.
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Skateboarding and Mental Health: Why the Slam-and-Get-Back-Up Mentality Translates to Life
Skateboarding’s culture of falling, getting up, and trying again builds real resilience. Research and lived experience point to genuine mental health benefits.
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How a former sex worker built a legit skateboarding career
Reinvention stories rarely cross between sex work and pro skateboarding. Here’s how one woman navigated stigma, sponsors, and a sport learning to grow up.