The street competition challenges athletes to balance style and skill throughout the course. Judges review everything from the degree of difficulty to height and speed. Riders are given two 45 second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Virginia Beach is about to witness history, as the first woman to skateboard across America will finish her journey at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. When viewers around the world tuned in to the women’s ...

As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, “Drop In” chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable. History, it is said, is written by the victors. And so ...

You could say Exposure Skate was born out of necessity, as it evolved during a time when opportunities for women and girls in skateboarding were almost nonexistent. Fourteen years later, it’s grown ...

In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual group of skateboarders. The young Bolivian women who founded Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colorful, layered skirts ...

Skateboarding has been a male-dominated sport for decades, but in recent years, with skating surging ahead on social media, women are now making big leaps on wheels. To celebrate this cultural shift, ...

On nothing but a “plank of wood and four wheels,” a group of women are careering down windy mountain roads at breakneck speed, constantly on the lookout for stones, turns and oncoming traffic. For ...

Following up on this incredible story of the 1979 photo that captivated all of our interest. Clyde Singleton first brought it to our attention, and even wrote a column about it in Closer Skateboarding ...