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The inspirational legacy of disabled skate legend Jon Comer
Living beyond your limits — In the mid-nineties, adaptive skateboarder Jon Comer made a name for himself in skate circles around the world, proving that having a prosthetic limb cannot hold you back from pursuing what you love. Filmmaker Ben Stoddard looks at Comer’s legacy in this tender, short documentary which follows skater Oscar Loreto Jr.
Written by: Christopher Saunders
Skate O.G. Chris Cole on competitive skateboarding
Keeping the young guns at bay — Chris Cole proves that you can combine competitive skating with a relevant contribution to the culture. We get his take on Street League and Olympic skateboarding.
Written by: Hannah Bailey
Honest, intimate portraits of London's skaters
Shooting people, not the tricks — Skate photography all too often glorifies the technique, the tricks, the board, over the community in which all three exist. Organic and personal from the start, skater and photographer Ian Kenneth Bird’s first exhibition features soft black-and-white portraits of his friends and fellow skaters.
Written by: Jack Richardson
Skating through the pain and prosthetics
Meet skateboarding’s bionic behemoth — Clément Zannini has a prosthetic leg, but he’ll be damned if that’s going to stop him skating.
Written by: Jack Richardson
Huck's top ten skateboarding projects that are changing the world
#GoSkateboardingDay — Videos, articles and photo essays on the raddest skateboarding cultures from around the globe, from the Mongolian steppes to South Africa’s Zulu heartland.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Skateboarding through China’s Wild West
Bandits, badlands and Beijing's iron grip — Xinjiang is China’s most western frontier, portrayed as a badlands and hotbed for religious extremism by state-controlled media. But for photographer Terry Xie, it’s simply a place to skate with like-minded friends.
Written by: D'Arcy Doran
Skating South Africa’s Valley of a Thousand Hills
Zulu skate paradise — Indigo skate camp is giving Isithumba's very first generation of young skaters a deeper connection with each other and their divided country.
Written by: Alex King
Ephemeral Space of Time: RVCA’s longboarding muse
Surf, art, garms — French artist and surfer Marqaux Arramon-Tucoo takes us on a journey of her creative inspirations in this ethereal video from RVCA.
Written by: Saoirse O'Leary
Holy Stokes! A Real Life Happening: The skate film even non-skaters need to see
Volcom’s first feature film in nine years — On the afternoon of the Holy Stokes! London film premiere, we talk to industry riders – Chris Pfanner and Daan Van Der Linden – about van stories, gnarly spiders, and the future of skateboard cinema.
Written by: Taylor McGraa
Skate 'n' shoot: Pro legend Jerry Hsu on fusing passions
Capturing the little details in life — For the man known as 'cool breeze', photography and skating are complementary pursuits: they're both about following your gut to find the things you love. We spoke with the San Jose icon about solitude, risk taking and how dream jobs aren't always so magical.
Written by: Julia Martincic