The wind in your helmet, the beautiful scenery, the imminent threat of skin-shearing demise lurking around every corner. If you haven’t had a good look at this terrifying sport, it’s time for you to ...
CASCADE — The fastest skateboarders in the world rallied atop Pikes Peak over the weekend, adding a new chapter of racing history to the storied peak’s twisting highway. Bombing down a 1.4-mile ...
In local skateboard circles, the spot is known as Suicide Hill. It stands along a steep section of Winding Oak Drive in Fair Oaks, an otherwise serene neighborhood lined with single-family suburban ...
FRISCO — In a digital day and age when many connections are made by computer, Russell Janoviak befriended the newest, youngest member of his downhill-skateboarding tribe at a Summit Stage bus stop. It ...
On Aug. 29 at an undisclosed location in Colorado, professional downhill skateboarder Kyle Wester broke a world record by traveling 89 miles per hour. On Aug. 29, at an undisclosed location in ...
Search YouTube for videos of downhill skateboarding, and you’ll see a sport that’s akin to skiing, but on a longboard and minus the snow. Skaters drift through turns and accelerate to speeds over 50 ...
Apr. 16—Hundreds of skateboarders are bombing down Tepusquet Road this weekend for the annual Tepe and Tacos downhill skateboarding race and freeride, while also sharing meals and camping at the base ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Downhill skateboarding, also known as longboarding, is like big wave surfing on blacktop. Even experienced riders say it’s risky. "It's almost undoubtedly dangerous," Ryan ...
The superstars of downhill skateboarding are a fearless lot. Tucked into a crouch and nearly tripling the speed limit, the leather-clad heroes of downhill skateboarding jostled one another racing last ...
On nothing but a “plank of wood and four wheels,” a group of women are careering down windy mountain roads at breakneck speed, constantly on the lookout for stones, turns and oncoming traffic. For ...
APTOS >> In a brief and dangerous period in the late 1970s, downhill skateboarding had more in common with drag racing than it did with its roots in sidewalk surfing. The racers wore helmets and ...
Jamie Hart clutches his skateboard and walks up the hill for the third time this recent morning – always back up the hill, like the myth of Sisyphus with a wooden deck and wheels. An SUV slows down to ...
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