Known in the business as "Purple Posts."

Real life happens in between
Don Luong on Toy Machine’s “Real Life Sucks” and making skate videos with heart.
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Mythologizing Failure
On lessons real and imagined.
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Building momentum
Everything is moving in the right direction for TJ Rogers.
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Looking through the glass
Contending with content, a media in decline, and skateboarding’s future online.
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What is a skateboard shop?
A cultural hub, capitalist outpost, the scene of my gravest sin?
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You know, everything
Elissa Steamer finally gets a cover.
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Getting clipped up
Why do we make skate videos?
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Channelling your energy
Why are more professional skateboarders turning to YouTube?
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The absurd and the reverent
A trip to The Bunt Jam.
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Boom and echo
An appreciation of a beautifully shitty pre-fab skatepark.
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Some great pleasure
What “Ryan Sheckler: Rolling Away” doesn’t say.
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The delight of discovery
Figuring out a feeling in the digital age.
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Street League Skateboarding airs to the right
What does the right-wing online video platform Rumble want from its partnership with skateboarding’s premier contest?
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Building the third place
DIY as a space to foster human connection, crack cold ones.
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Perform difficult moves with style and ease!
A look at “Street Uni X,” the world’s first authentic unicycling videogame.
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What happens after you win?
Olympic street skateboarding champion Yuto Horigome is lost.
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Bobby, Bolang, and those bootleg boards
A special investigation.
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World Skate, what are you doing?
A special investigation.
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What is postmodernism if not a Bondo-ing of the classical form?
A special investigation.
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The enduring novelty appeal of the skateboard
A special investigation.
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Where did my pants go?
A special investigation.
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Why won’t anyone clean the big dog in the sky?
A special investigation.
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Who pissed on my balcony?
A special investigation.
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