Watch 2013’s Red Bull King of the Air perform a 790-foot tow-up over the Colombia River Gorge in Oregon. This stunt has never been accomplished by a kiteboarder before.
Most days, Daniel Johnson can be found on Lake Norman, working on the tricks, flips and spins that have made him a championship-winning wakeboarder.
And he’s only 8 years old.
Yet Johnson – six years removed from his first ride on a wakeboard, and four years since competing in his first tournament – has already won … More
HAVANA — Some call Che Pando the godfather of Havana’s skateboarding scene, and the 40-year-old tattoo artist can still recall how tough things were in the 1980s when he and a handful of other pioneers first started shredding in public squares.
Like listening to rock music in the 1960s, interest in such a uniquely American import marked the young skaters as socially suspicious, and sometimes for rough treatment by police and arrest, though their experiences were … More