Our series “Locals” focuses on the often overlooked characters that surround skateboarding – the eccentrics, weirdos and local legends who are staples in the community for reasons outside of having a great back tail. It’s the people with no sponsors to answer to and no paychecks to lose. The people who skate for the love and have a routine unique to themselves.
to break the ski jump and ski flying world records you need a hill bigger than standard competition ski jumps. Olympic medallist and FIS World Cup Champion Ry?y? Kobayashi and his team headed to Akureyri in northern Iceland, and carved a special kicker out of snow on the side of the mountain with the single intention of creating a jump big enough to smash world records
Takshvi Vaghani, a 6 year old skating prodigy from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India