#skateboarding

#skateboarding

Hey, guys!Let's jump right in.I get the same questions from all of my coastal viewers: none.They're with God now.But the ones far enough inland to keep skating ask, "What's the best board for riding a dead planet?"There's no universal answer; we all have different goals.Some of us turn dried-out lakes into perfect D.I.Y. bowls.

With pads and helmets and strings pulled tight, dozens of students at César Chávez Elementary School step on skateboards three days a week and surf on the sidewalk, part of the afterschool program on campus."Teacher Aaron!" students yell, calling their instructor Aaron Breetwor for help in putting on safety gears to team them a trick.

Erato Chatira is a skateboarder who teaches refugees in her native Greece for the grassroots charity Free Movement Skateboarding.The group has created a new community for young refugees using public spaces across Athens.When I first started skateboarding in Greece, some of the boys I skated with were very supportive but I still heard things like: Wow, it's really impressive you're skating.

A man hopes to break two skateboarding world records in one day to raise money for the charity Mind and encourage others with mental health conditions to use them as their superpower.Ryan Swain, from Malton, North Yorkshire, has the backing of Olympic ski-jumper Eddie the Eagle for his attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the furthest distance travelled on skateboard in 12 hours and 24 hours.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died in January after a brutal beating by Memphis police officers, never had the chance to exhibit the photographs he took of his adopted hometown.But starting this weekend, a selection will appear on roadside billboards as part of the Desert X biennial a highly adventurous and occasionally political art exhibition that can be viewed at outdoor sites across the Palm Springs area.

Times are tough and budgets are squeezed, so it is perhaps no surprise that the runaway success story in Toyland this Christmas is Squishmallows, the squidgy, huggable pillows-with-a-face that became a viral sensation on TikTok.The 8 toys are flying off retailers' shelves with UK sales up 300% this year and stores on track to sell 4m.

On a recent afternoon, Evan Mock was trying to do laundry in his East Village condo, but something was wrong with the dryer.Perturbed beeps cut through the retro-soul music playing in the airy third-floor walk-up.The machine kept starting and stopping.He mentioned a theory, something about excessive lint accumulation and a defective filter.

On stage, Upchuck's performances are in-your-face and unrelenting, but in conversation, the band is a centered, charged circle of grounded connection.Their origins lay in their experimental DIY days in their hometown Atlanta, skateboarding, rolling silverware, and smoking cigarettes at college parties.

ESPN is selling a majority interest in X Games, the event that helped bring extreme sports such as snowboarding and Moto X racing into the mainstream.The Walt Disney-owned sports media company announced Wednesday that MSP Sports Capital, a private equity firm, will become the majority stakeholder in the property founded in 1995.

There is no shortage of choices when it comes to camps in the East Bay.Berkeleyside's East Bay Summer Camp Guide helps you select the best one for your family: it's a directory of paid-for listings and your one-stop shop to a great summer for your kids and for you.Camps have been shown to help improve kids' health, improve their ability to get along with others, enhance thinking, problem-solving and resiliency skills, as well as boost self-esteem.

Most of Ken Block's social media messages to his nearly 2 million YouTube subscribers and half a million Twitter followers touted the "Go Fast Risk Every Thang" mantra that enabled him to become the world's most famous rally car racer and ambassador for the sport.But his last Twitter post was as a proud father, touting "The 4th and final episode of my 16-year-old daughter Lia buying, tearing down, rebuilding and now driving her '85 Audi Ur Quattro ... ."