Start your summer of 2015 with CALI Strong at the San Diego County Fair! For the first time, CALI Strong is releasing our new 2015 product lineup. This will be the public's first chance to buy the latest CALi Strong skateboards, surfboards,…
Latino Americans and Skateboarding Have a Rich History In the 1990's and early 2000's, mainstream pop culture associated skateboarding primarily with white suburban boys. The stereotypical “skater boy” had long blonde hair and a punk or hippie aesthetic. These days,…
One of California’s most iconic traditions is skateboarding. If you've ever been to California, it is likely that you’ve seen people both young and old riding down the street on a skateboard. Today, millions of Californians use skateboards for both…
About 25,000 skateboarders go to the hospital for skateboard-related injuries per year. Unfortunately, many of these injuries are very severe, and some have even been fatal. Head injuries and internal bleeding are major causes of death and hospitalization in skateboarders.
Skateboard Throwaway footage filmed in about a month all over San Diego, CA (Beach, Chula Vista High School, etc.). Filmed with a Canon t3i and edited on Final Cut Pro X on Macbook Pro 15″ Retina Display.
Magical Death pro Richie Jackson cruises the dusty back roads of LA in this C2C video titled ‘Down The Road.’
“Light Goes On” is a stop-motion light painting animation of a skateboarding and dancing skeleton by photographer Darren Pearson. To create the video, Pearson spent a year shooting all over San Diego with more than 700 light painting photos. Featuring the track”Bust…
The gifted director Brett Novak has brought Kilian Martin’s unique style of innovative style of skateboarding to the masses. Kilian Martin explores an abandoned water park and uses this old playground with astonishing board control and spontaneous creativity.
Randy Mullen is called the “Godfather of Street Skating” for good reason. He is credited with inventing numerous skateboarding tricks, including the kickflip, heelflip, impossible, flatground ollie, and 360-flip.
In this TED talk, Mullen discusses how we can all learn from great skateboarders the art and power of “Getting Up Again.” Even though life can beat you down to a pulp and every voice you hear says stay down, there is still hope. Not driven by the will to win, but by the will to live.
Here’s an hypnotic video of a skater’s shadow from cinematographer, Joe Pease. This mesmerising shadow theatre was shot using just sunlight, a skateboard, and a camera. The unknown skater is not Peter. The title actually comes from an essay on shadow symbolism in Peter…