Extreme Sports

Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The ones who were around were mocked as whitewashed wannabes. After all, skateboarding was born when beach k ... More >>

X Games Leave Los Angeles

When the summer X Games started out in cities other than L.A., we were frustrated:WTF? This is where half those sports began. This is the action sports capital of America. This is the biggest media market for this stuff. And then, in 2003, they came, and we were like, Yes! And now? Not so much. Aft ... More >>

Danny Way, the World's Best Skateboarder, Gets a New Documentary

Alex Gray, South Bay Surfer, Is All About The Hunt

Alex Gray is a wave chaser. The 26 year-old professional surfer is more than comfortable riding some of the world's most consequential waves, coming out of every session with a smile on his face. But what would drive a man to such extremes as paddling into 20-foot barrels and 45-foot behemoths? He ... More >>

Odd Future and Streetwear Employees Resent Fairfax Avenue Tourist Influx

U.S. Open of Surfing, the Sport's Super Bowl, Rides in to Huntington Beach

Over the past nine days, hundreds of thousands of fans, more than 100 professional surfer and dozens of pro skateboarders descended upon Huntington Beach for the Nike U.S. Open of Surfing, an unapologetic ode to Southern California culture complete with plenty of sun, skin, and sex appeal. Equal par ... More >>

ESPN X Games Los Angeles 2012: Confronting Fear, Pain and Mortality

The world of sports may be focused on London, but during the past week athleticism of a decidedly ballsier kind was on display in Los Angeles as wide-eyed kids, patient parents and industry hangers-on oohed, ahhed, gasped, and clapped at the feats of physical imagination and occasional crashes that ... More >>

How Adam Grandmaison Is Changing the Way You Look at BMX

Though he's one of the most successful men in action sports, Adam Grandmaison doesn't roll up for our interview in a BMW -- he still rolls up on his BMX bike. Now, if you even had to Google "BMX" or if it made you think of the X Games, get ready to start re-thinking. Grandmaison's working to change ... More >>

Chris Schwartz, 'Pro Street Luger' From Agoura Hills, Killed When Skateboard Hits Parked Car

A young Agoura Hills daredevil who listed himself online as a "professional street luger" and "inline speed skater" died just after midnight this morning in a tragic skateboarding accident. City News Service reports that Christopher Schwartz, 29, was not wearing a helmet when he took his Dirtsurfer ... More >>

Skateboard as 'Deadly Weapon' in Venice Attack: Ashley Berg, Savoy Anderson Charged

Skateboards are for riding, not for fighting. But the L.A. City Attorney's office today said that a Venice homeless couple -- 21-year-old Ashley Berg and 33-year-old Savoy Anderson -- was involved in using a board as a weapon in an attack on another pair last week. It happened on a street becoming ... More >>

Skateboard 'Bombing' to Be Outlawed Under City Leader Joe Buscaino's Proposal: Kid Skaters Would Also Have to Wear Helmets

Bomb a hill, go to jail? New L.A. city Councilman Joe Buscaino is proposing to outlaw high-speed skateboarding down steep hills following the tragic deaths of a couple teen skaters in his Harbor-area district. But perhaps the most controversial aspect of his proposal:

Bob Simmons, Pioneer of the Modern Surfboard, Gets a New Exhibit

Bobby Martinez's Rebel Cry

Surfing's elite Latino star questions the soul of the World Tour

Dancing Is Not a Crime

Jacques Heim and Diavolo Dance Theater Mix With Skateboarders at the Music Center

Courtesy Diavolo Dance Theater​ "Here are our rock stars!" shouts a grinning Jacques Heim, artistic director of Diavolo Dance Theater Heim is like that, full of jolly bluster and French bonhomie. It's part of his charm, his public signature. His greeting was directed at the boys pictured abov ... More >>

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

World's First Beer-Can Surfboard

Richard MorrisonMorrison threw Modelos, PBRs, Rolling Rocks, Boddingtons, and Bud cans together to create this rocket fish board.​ You've probably seen -- or even own -- Reef Fanning flip-flops, which are an epic combination of beer opener and shoe. But one of our readers, San Diego artist Ric ... More >>

Hot Boarding Skateboard Accident Involving Car Tow Puts 35-Year-Old Edward Culhan in Hospsital

Hot boarding.​Updated at the bottom: The skateboarder died. Mix speed, a skateboard and alleged drunk driving and you probably have a recipe for hospitalization. Authorities say a skateboarder being towed by a suspected DUI driver crashed and ended up hospitalized with critical injuries over ... More >>

Heidi Lemmon: Chairman of the Board

Jesus Hates Skater Kids: 'Lincoln Ramp' Half Pipe in Venice Torn Down by Fun-Killers at United Methodist Church

Juice MagazineThe Lincoln Ramp in better days​Updated after the jump: Photos of the Lincoln Ramp being dismantled, set to be U-Hauled -- in sad little strips -- to various parts of the Valley. Plus, the reverend's defense. The riff-raff who frequent the Lincoln Ramp in east Venice Beach are f ... More >>

Westchester to Break Ground on New Skate Park With The Help of Councilman Bill Rosendahl

A skater gets air, but not over Westchester. Not yet.​The city of L.A. continues to roll out skate parks, despite recent opposition from neighbors concerned about noise from skateboarders at a West L.A. rec center. The latest one will see a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday at 11 a.m. at 7000 ... More >>

Four Suspected L.A. Taggers Brutally Beat Jogger With Skateboards, Steal Mp3 Player

skaterscafe.comMr. Hooligan, in the park, with the skateboard​Suburban night jogging -- already plagued by the prospect of creepy sexual offenders lurking in the shadows -- just got even less attractive. New freak attackers to be paranoid about: rebellious young riff-raff who sneak up behind ... More >>

FILM SCHOOL VS. FARMERS MARKET

Skateboard-Tailor

Skateboard-Tailor

The Little Lord of Dogtown

Making Waves at Venice Breakwater

L.A. County officials toss surfers from historic public surf spot

Learn How To Get Board Certified

West Los Angeles Skate Park 'Made By Skaters For Skaters'

Steve La​Alec Beck, the 23-year-old co-creator of the Stoner Recreation Center's new skate plaza, hopes the skate park becomes a safe haven for board-riders looking for a place to meet outside of public spaces that usually don't welcome them. A recent visit to the granite playground demonstrat ... More >>

Dogtown's Good-bye

Farewell to an original zephyr

A pricey Venice loft steals a historic name. Laddie John Dill and others say: "It's the antithesis of Dogtown."

​Lance LeMond, you're a second generation Dogtown skater, ("third generation, technically" you correct us), you make your living through an online skateboard store, you are calling the L.A. Weekly from the newly "ollied" skatepark in Venice, you helped organize its opening day. Can you afford a un ... More >>

Dogtown Skate Park: Jesse Martinez Pays Homage as the New Bowls Open at Venice Beach

By Tibby Rothman You couldn't blame the cluster flock of politicians who showed up for the official opening of the skate park at Venice Beach Saturday, October 3, after all that's what they do. Never mind their pontificating, or that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was a surprise attendee--he'd probabl ... More >>

COME ON AND TAKE A FLEA RIDE

Movie Reviews: Casi Divas, Post Grad, Shorts

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LA People 2009: Surf Legend Skip Engblom — the Great Leveler

Serena Brooke's Surf Stronger Fitness Video Gets to the Core

The surfer's workout

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

Surfin' Fools

The Fifth Annual Doo Dah Surf Day

D'oh! Simpsons Limited-Edition Vans

Is that a Bart on your shoe?

Extreme Campers

Best place for your inner child to do backflips

Got Wood?

Arbor boards promise to improve your performance

Sexy Secrets

Manu, Mort & Thor

Pretty Punk

How the hood rats in Wassup Rockers learned to skate, rock, turn their world upside down . . . and give Larry Clark the biggest wedgie of his life

A Race for Life

Adventure racer Louise Cooper

Big Wednesday

Every surfer’s dream... and nightmare

Attention, Skaters With Visa Cards!

Reborn To Rescue

When disaster struck, washed-out pro surfer Matt George didn’t ask permission to start saving people. Now he can’t stop

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Sk8er Girl in Z-Boy Land

Director Catherine Hardwicke on being the Lady of Dogtown

Wipe Out!

Lords of Dogtown plays it down and pretty