Skateboarding will make its debut at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next year. One 11-year-old is setting her sights on taking part. Sky Brown competed Friday at the X-Games in Minneapolis, where she became the first female skateboarder to land a “frontside 540” in the Games’ history. Jamie Yuccas spoke with the fearless young girl.
It began with a simple goal: to successfully obtain an untouched title in the Guinness Book of World Records. But it would require riding an electric skateboard for 225 miles in less than a single day.
It’s possible that others were too scared to tackle the dangerous feat, or found such an expedition too daunting, costly, or just plain physically exhausting. But 22-year-old Atlanta resident Eric Decker was up for the challenge.
Last week, he started the journey in San Francisco and documented his travels in a YouTube video … More
Justin Beauchesne has loved skateboarding ever since he started playing the Tony Hawk video game when he was a kid. But it’s a sport that he was told to never participate in.
“I had meningococcemia when I was 18 months old. That caused three limbs to be amputated, and I have some bone deformity in my leg,” he explained. “Thanks to all the haters, naysayers and the people who said I could never do anything. That really drove me to be successful.”