When you think of Kareem Campbell, one of the first things that comes to mind is his signature trick, the Ghetto Bird. I already made a video about what the trick is exactly, and one thing I noticed in my research… is that he wasn’t actually the first person to do it. Did he steal […]
Crooked grinds, or K-grinds, are one of my favorite skateboard tricks. And everyone knows,even Wikipedia, that Eric Koston created them, right? Well Eric Koston actually wasn’t the first person to land the trick. So who was? And how did they get to be so linked to Koston? Let’s take a look. So, real quick, a […]
A lot of skaters are using no-brand blank decks to save money. But is that hurting skateboarding in general? Is it worth saving a few dollars? Let’s figure this out. A lot of new skaters are young. They save up their allowance or cash from raking lawns, and they just want to stretch it as […]
If you want to play Tony Hawk 1 these days, you’ve got 4 – more like 3.5 – choices. PS1, N64, Dreamcast, or Xbox. We can kind of rule out the Xbox version right away though. The career mode from Pro Skater 1 is included in Tony Hawk 2X, but you unlock it after you […]
Long before there was Skate, there was Thrasher, the most realistic skateboarding sim of the PlayStation era. I loved this game back in the day, but does it still hold up? Let’s take a look and find out. Thrasher: Skate and Destroy came out in September 1999, about a month after Tony Hawk 1 hit […]
If you do any research on the Ollie, you’ll find two names for who invented it. First is Alan Gelfand, who landed it on vert, and second is Rodney Mullen who did it on flat. Right? Well there’s a guy who claims to have done both variations first. And it actually seems pretty credible. Let’s […]
In the world of confusing skateboard trick names, nothing is more vague than ‘ghetto bird’. It doesn’t mean anything, and not a lot of people seem to know what it actually is. So what is the trick? Where did it come from? Let’s take a look. Unlike a lot of mysterious flip tricks that are […]
In July 2010, a brand new trick exploded onto the internet called the Merlin Twist. Corey Kennedy did a switch frontside 180 front foot impossible, which is a remarkable trick, and had never before been done… or had it? Actually, this trick was actually relatively common 25 years ago. Let’s take a look at the […]
A lot of you who have been around for a while remember how incredibly popular rollerblading, or inline skating, or “aggressive inline” was back in the day. In 1996-98, rollerblading peaked. There were 29.1 million bladers compared to 4.5 million skateboarders and 3.8 million snowboarders according to the National Sporting Good Association. There were 4 […]
