Michael Brooke is a self-proclaimed “skategeezer,” and the title has merit: He’s an industry legend who first laid eyes on a board in 1972 and has been rolling on four wheels for more than 37 years. He also publishes Concrete Wave, a magazine dedicated to longboarding with more than 100,000 readers around the world—a stat that forced him to think about the sport globally in 2012, when he got a nagging feeling that longboarding might just help bridge the peace between Arab and Israeli children in the Middle East (see video below).
“I knew that one of the best ways to achieve peace is to start with youth,” Brooke tells … More
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