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Black and white photo of a graffiti-covered indoor skate spot, with text reading How To and Skate 101.

DIY Skate Spot Maintenance: Keeping Your Local Spots Skateable

If you’re interested in learning more about DIY spot maintenance, you’ve come to the right place. Read on to learn more about the steps necessary to repair a skate spot. Today, we’ll focus on using body filler and hardener to turn a problematic crack or hole and transform it back into an incredible skating opportunity. 
Poster for HUF’s skate video Forever by Tyler Smolinski, showing a skater with arms raised and skate footage in the background.

HUF’s “Forever”

The Skater Before the Brand – Huf Has there ever been a skateboarding company like HUF? We’d dare to say “no.” There may have never been a skater like Huf, the namesake of the company, in fact. For those who don’t know, Huf is a nickname bestowed upon the famously raw street skater Keith Hufnagel. …
Skateboarding lesson in a school courtyard with a large group of students watching.

Bhutan Skates

“What is that?” “In Thailand, right?” “I haven’t been to Spain in forever.” These are some of the common responses I received when telling people of my travel plans to Bhutan. It is, in fact, a country and not a city or a province within another nation. Bhutan is governed as a kingdom, with a …
Skateboarder in a green shirt riding high on the wall of a concrete skatepark with graffiti.

Palestine: Occupied by Skateboarding

The State of Palestine has a long and complex history, impossible to cover entirely in this Blog post. But it is essentially militarily occupied by the State of Israel. In 1948 Israel declared its independence, triggering invasions from multiple surrounding Arab nations, and in 1967 Israel launched a ground offensive which coerced Palestinians from several …
Group of skateboarders gathered at a skatepark in Pakistan, standing and sitting around the concrete ledges with boards in hand.

Skate Pakistan

In every corner of the world, there is possibility. How that possibility takes shape and moves through its environment is affected by those around it. Skateboarding is but one of many things that could inhabit a new place on the globe. We like to think of it as one of the best. Yet again, skateboarding …
Traditional dancers in colorful regalia participating in a Native American powwow during the evening.

Res Life is Skate Life

What came before skateboarding? Many many things, of course. But what came before America as we know it? Well, for one, the Native American people. One way in which we can dive deeper to better understand them: skateboarding. Skateboarding was derived from surfing. Though surfing was originally an activity for royalty among native Pacific Islanders, …
Henry Gartland smiling in a hoodie

R.I.P. Henry Gartland

Unfortunately, bad news comes with the good. It is difficult to process the negative events in our lives, much less anticipate them. Every now and then, something especially heartbreaking occurs. And this week carries with it one of those gut-wrenching reports. Henry Gartland was only 21-years-old when he passed away. Originally from the Minneapolis area, …