Extreme Sports

Five People Making L.A. a Better Place

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. But some of the people in this year's issue aren't just interesting -- they're downright inspiring! Check out all of our 2013 People Issue profiles From Dr. Coley King, who's working to treat Venice's homeless community, ... More >>

Somehow, "Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)" With 2 Chainz And Tyga Ain't So Great

If, for the next few moments, we may be entirely liberal with the application of the term, I've remixed a fair amount of things in my short, trivial life. When I was a pup, several friends and I remixed the skateboard. We made something called a MEGA SKATEBOARD, wherein we took two four-foot-by-fo ... More >>

Man Alleges Lil Wayne Entourage Member Smashed His Head With Skateboard

Last year Downey, California-based bill poster Alfredo Marino saw Lil Wayne on Fairfax Avenue. He approached him hoping to get a photo, but says the encounter ended with a member of the rapper's entourage smashing him in the back of the head with a skateboard and sending him to the hospital. Marino ... More >>

Inline Skaters Take To 405's Carmageddon II In Lamest Action Sports Video Ever

In what has got to be the lamest Carmageddon stunt yet -- surpassing, we would argue, last year's super kooked-out planking display (anyone still remember planking?) -- some inline skaters took to the 405 during the Carmageddon II freeway shutdown this fall. They recently posted a video (after the ... More >>

Luci Romberg Is the Queen of Freerunning, an Extreme Sport That's Like Running But More Awesome

Luci Romberg is practicing corkscrews over a blue gymnastics mat on a sweltering day. Most of the other 16 members of Team Tempest are here at the gym, too, also rehearsing methods of launching themselves airborne: flipping off ledges, leaping between walls, vaulting off foam blocks. They're rar ... More >>

Charley Ford, Noted Skateboarder, Murdered In Compton

An up-and-coming skateboarder named Charley Ford was fatally gunned down as he sat in a car in his hometown of Compton over the weekend, authorities said. The 24-year-old's death was quickly lamented by local skaters and friends on Facebook, who started an RIP Charley Ford page. Here's what sherif ... More >>

Josh Androsky, L.A. Comedian, Comes Forward as Shroomed-Out 'Skateboard Rabbi' on The Price Is Right

The only thing funnier than an L.A. comedian on shrooms has to be an L.A. bank executive on bath salts -- and, unfortunately, we don't have video of the latter. So we'll have to settle for this retarded-hilarious clip from an early May episode of The Price Is Right, which makes a lot more sense now ... More >>

Skateboard Bombing to be Banned in Los Angeles; Law Awaits Villaraigosa's Signature

The L.A. City Council really tackled the big non issues today. Besides declaring this Bob Marley Day, the body voted to ban high-speed downhill skateboard cruising known as "bombing." Of course, the city is underwater financially, our roads suck, and you're essentially seeing your local taxes raise ... More >>

Pedalers Fork Under Construction in Calabasas

Bicyclists will have a new destination this fall when Pedalers Fork restaurant opens in the heart of Old Town Calabasas. Now under construction, the goal is to create a bike-friendly venue, offering food, coffee, drinks, and even bike pharaphernalia, tours and repairs. "We wanted to create a sort o ... More >>

Skateboarder Wields Ax on SoCal Freeway, Leads CHP on High-Speed Chase

A sick new move that has rocked the skateboarding world in a way not seen since Tony Hawk's historic "900" was completed near The Birdman's hometown of San Diego this week. That's right, authorities allege that 24-year-old Thomas Robert Landry of San Diego executed the "5150" flawlessly, starting w ... More >>

Skateboard Parade World Record Set in Venice, According to Guinness

Yo! Venice!SkateLAvia?​How many Angelenos with skateboards does it take to create a world record? Apparently not many. Guinness World Records announced today that a skaters' gathering outside Venice High School last summer took the prize for "largest skateboard parade." The number of part ... More >>

'Blue Sky Metropolis' at the Huntington Library Shows How Aerospace Shaped L.A., From Surfing to Marilyn Monroe

Nasa photoNASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.​ At a new exhibition at ... More >>

Go Skateboarding Day: Thousands of Skaters Overtake Downtown L.A., Venice Boardwalk

​Updated after the jump with live pics from the traffic nightmare. No, that's not a swarm of cicadas outside your office, celebrating the first day of summer like it's 1840! That, friend, is an adorable mob of 1,000s of skateboarders, practicing their right to rebel on the one day of the year ... More >>

"Art in the Streets" Press Preview: Deitch, Gastman, Rose, Fab 5 Freddy and More

Patrick Range McDonaldThe crowd watches the curators speak at the "Art in the Streets" press preview​ Journalists, artists, museum administrators and other members of the art community -- a few hundred, it seemed -- came out for the press preview of MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit yesterd ... More >>

D*Face Comes to L.A.: British Street Artist Talks Advertising, Skating and Punk Rock

See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshow, "D*Face in Los Angeles." Saturday night at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, "Going Nowhere Fast," the latest show from D*Face, will open. It is the British street artist's first solo show in Los Angeles. He had previously appeared in group shows ... More >>

Teens Worship in a Parking Lot After Venice Pastor Shuns the Skateboard Set

New pastor bars youth group at United Methodist Church

Edward Sharpe Collaborates with Spike Jonze, Pro Skaters and Fireballs in New Video Featuring Unreleased Ima Robot Songs (MP3s Too!)

An actual screen-grab: Edward Sharpe and Spike Jonze ride their skateboard through the flames of death.​Worlds collide in a new Spike Jonze-produced skateboard short featuring unreleased Ima Robot songs and a whole heaping lot of pyrotechnics! What more do you need to know? Okay, a few deets ... More >>

Kaboom!

Surf 'n' Turf

Daggers of the World Unite! Skateboarders, Artists, and one Runaway Visit Exhibit A

Daggers of the World Unite! O.G. Skateboarders, artists, and one 'Runaway' Visit Exhibit A

Work to Surf? Natural Born Ego Leaves Allen Sarlo Surf Docu Flat

​Some men miss their time. That's the argument put forth in a self-produced new surf movie/documentary chronicling the life of former pro-surfer Allen Sarlo. A Dogtown protégé with a singular focus and the advantage of a stable supportive family, Sarlo was, by many accounts. a strong power ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Lolitas Invade Little Tokyo, Van Morrison, Derby Dolls Championship, Kat Von D and Bam Margera Host Skateboard Event

Well, we survived election week and like many of you I spent a majority of the weekend trying not to get out of bed, reflecting on what an absolutely amazing (yet exhausting) November we've had thus far. Over the weekend, while some Angelenos traded in partying for protesting, others opted to check ... More >>

Art of The Exiles

Yvonne Walker of "The Exiles" This past Friday, artist and skateboard maker Douglas Miles of Apache Skateboards was in town at the Artist Gallery to unveil a new series of pieces inspired by "The Exiles" -- Kent Mackenzie's recently re-released 1961 film about the lives of Native Americans in Down ... More >>

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

An L.A. Speculator Plans a Disney-Style Park in Baghdad

What a blast

Evel Knievel and a Shit Named Joe Eszterhas

Beautiful Boys

The Art Apartments

Elk Gallery show at the Regency Hotel

Quadruple X

Four-wheelers do it just as fast

SNAP

Surf Sensei

John Philbin

Requiem for Surfing's Black Knight

The sanctioned Miki Dora

Foaming at the Mouth

Surf industry in uproar at closing of major supplier

Go East, Young Surfer Girl

Could the best surf shop be in the Valley?

The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy

They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

Seeing Red

The 'Future Boy' Is Now

Shaun White and the X Games come of age

Surf’s Way Up

Riding Giants puts the history of big-wave riding on the big screen

X Marks the Spot

Surfing, sundry subcultures and the serendipitous Super X Combine

The Abruti Ploy

Turf War

It’s Little League versus skateboarders in Highland Park

Letters

Tapping the Source

Surfing The Ranch with Step Into Liquid’s Dana Brown and Endless Summer’s “Wingnut” Weaver

Last Stand at San Onofre

Visit one of Southern California’s wildest and most famous surf spots — before it gets bulldozed for a toll road

The Performer's Life: Diana and the Supreme Karaoke Singers

The Endless Summer Show

Surf's up, down, all over Laguna

Hollywood’s Ground Zero

The Black Hole of Z-Boydom

Mozart on Wheels

An interview with Jay Adams

Sweat and Wild