By Nick Cemer
What is a Vulcanized Sole?
Every shoe is actually made from Vulcanized materials, but there is a difference in the methods of how the soles are attached to the shoe. Vulcanization is the process by which rubber molecules (polymers or macromolecules made of repeating units or monomers called isoprene) are cross-linked with each other [...]

By Tom Cruz
Whether you are riding a skateboard or a caster board such as the Ripstik it is important that you also where the right kind of gear in order to protect yourself from any dangers. In this article we will be taking a closer look at the kind of protective gear you should consider [...]

By Jim Bartlett
What Skateboard Protective Gear Do I Need?
1 – A Good Quality Skateboard Helmet
The consequences of a serious head injury make skateboard helmet safety your first priority. Skateboarders fall a lot, especially as you learn new moves and tricks. Depending upon your speed, distance to the ground, ground hardness (a wooden ramp vs. a [...]

By Adam Licata
Skateboarding is what you would call an extreme sport. Skateboarding all began in the 60s. The idea of skateboarding started from surfing. That is why surfers and skaters looks are almost the same. The surfers wanted to see if they could do the same things on the street like they did on the [...]

By Adam Licata
Beginners Skateboarding Guide
Do you love to skateboard? Well if you do this is the site for you. Lets start with the basics. What kind of skateboarder are you? Street or vert? Or are you new to skateboarding or do not skateboard? Well To start out just so you know. A vert skater is [...]

By Joel Owens
Skateboarding is for bums? Take a good look at the professional skateboarder’s body. Have you seen, in his MTV show, Ryan Sheckler shirtless? He’s got a well toned body. The guy is stringy but is ripped like Brad Pitt! Imagine that. Take a good guess at which physical activity can be most attributed [...]

By Camille Parker
Skateboard wheels are one of the most important skateboard parts; other parts being deck, trucks, and bearings. They are attached to the bottom of the skateboards and these wheels are attached with special axles called skateboard trucks.
While buying skateboard wheels, buy them according to the skateboarding you do as the hardness of wheel [...]

Pro-Tec Classic White Skateboard Helmet
By John Pauls
The desire to skateboard is one many people are very passionate about. At the same time though their personal safety should be a priority. You will find that there are many different styles and brands of helmets you can select from in order to reduce the risk of a serious [...]

By Todd Martin
Skateboarding is all the fun as it can help your body to remain in shape by burning up those extra calories and flab, that too without affecting your joints; what’s more you will augment your muscle strength and flexibility. You may besides customize your skateboard according to your own specifications, on the other [...]

By Manuel Wiggins
Every sport has a history that you should be aware of before you decide to try it. Extreme sports are no exception – skateboard history is a field that has garnered quite a bit of interest.
All the different skaters who have invented moves, the different venues where these moves have been invented, the [...]

By Duke McCallister
How did skateboarding come to be? Who invented the first skateboard? Where was the concept of skateboards and skateboarding developed? While there aren’t any definite or definitive answers to these questions, skateboard decks do indeed have a colorful and rich history to them. And while it’s nearly impossible to imagine a world without [...]

By James R Shaw
Quick History
Skateboarding definitely has its roots in surfing. Surfers wanted to see if they could do on land what they did in the water “surf on land”. Skaters would simply stick a piece of board on wheels and start practising. In the 60’s, the sport became popular when companies started making and [...]

By Duke McCallister
In hockey, you have the wrist-shot, the “spin-o-rama” and the glove save. In basketball, you have the killer-crossover, the dunk and the sky-hook. And in football, there’s the sack, the flea-flicker and the quarterback sneak. In just about any athletic endeavor, there are special terms, words and phrases which are used to denote [...]

By Dana Bradley

A skate park is nothing neither more nor less than an athletic facility specifically for skateboarders, in-line skaters, and freestyle BMX riders. There are at least 533 in the US. California, with sixty-eight, has more than any other state; Colorado comes in as second with twenty-six, and Florida with twenty-five. So what does [...]

By: Kadence Buchanan
Skateboarding traces its roots to the seventies but it really reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-eighties to the present when major skateboard manufacturers propelled it to new heights. First, they started with half-pipe and vert ramp skateboarding. The manufacturers upgraded the boards to make their decks very wide and to [...]

By: Ben Ruhland
If you’re looking to get into a board sport why not try out skateboarding? Let me guess you and your friends go out on weekends looking for something to do but you’re bored stiff. Well I can guarantee you skateboarding is a sport you’ll never be able to give up on once you [...]