Several years ago, Shane O’Neill was just a young skate rat on the streets of Melbourne, Australia, hopping fences and jumping down staircases in shopping centers and office buildings. Now, at 26, he travels the globe as the leader of the Street League Skateboarding Nike SB World Tour, the world’s first professional skating league.
O’Neill’s winning run at the SLS Barcelona Open in May was a masterclass in grinds, aerial maneuvers, and creativity. He nailed one trick after another, clinching victory with a switch big flip frontside boardslide, performed down a handrail, which earned him a score of … More
Brazil is the birthplace of one of the world’s most famous skateboarders, Bob Burnquist, and Brazil is one of the world’s leading skateboarding nations.
Sandro Testinha is a passionate skateboarder from São Paulo who worked as a volunteer in one of Brazil’s most dangerous and violent juvenile prisons.
“I saw that many of those jailed for committing terrible crimes were just like me,” he says. “The only difference was skateboarding … More