At only 25 years old, it seems that Aurelien’s name has been imprinted in our memories for quite some time, especially with his style of technical impact skating and bursting onto the scene at a similar time as Chris Joslin. Hailing from Lyon, Aurelien grew up in the skate friendly city influenced heavily by the…
It’s fairly evident. As a skater owned company, Last Resort AB is doing all the right things and creating top-tier products for skateboarders across the world. Not a plug, we just checked out their website and they also have an insane summer sale with classic models for half the price. Anyhow, in all of our…
Each and every year the skateboarding world revolves, we’re continuously surprised with news of companies “entering” skateboarding. And as you may or may not of seen, Asics Skateboarding has entered the chat. Known for their high performing running shoes, Asics actually started off under the moniker, Onitsuka Tiger, in Kobe, Japan, making basketball shoes. If…
Over the years we’ve seen some mind-blowing hard flip clips on social media, but the most eye-catching ones that are burned into our retinas are from the French ripper Aurelien Giraud. Aurelien burst onto the scene skating some of the biggest gaps and catching everyone’s attention with not so common tricks down them; the way…
There’s a lot of players in this skate industry of ours. Companies enter the scene with flashy adverts and videos while others exit quietly with no remembrance of their team riders. There’s a lot of heritage and legacy brands as well, but many have faltered and are struggling to stay relevant. With this, it’s safe…
Franky Villani is the type of skater that can join any type of session, throw down a heavy bag of tricks mixed in with some improv. Over the course of these few years, Franky Villani has solidified his name among this generation of skaters as one of the most diverse and creative skaters out now,…
Ironically, Last Resort AB started roughly two years ago, in a time when the world was burning down with the Covid pandemic. But since then, the company and visionary team behind the scenes has been carefully detailing and tweaking their staple shoe models for untimely batch releases. Now, Last Resort AB’s tenth drop marks the…
Vans has and will always be a brand in skateboarding that has an iconic product portfolio of classic heritage models. Just last year, Vans celebrated the 30th anniversary of their Half-Cab shoe model, with a release of colorways and collabs that instantly became timeless classics. During this time, Vans was also busy developing a new…
A couple months ago, pictures of the new Nike SB Dunk “Gardenia” from FLY Streetwear were leaked and social media blew up with mixed reviews. While some were saying Nike was releasing too many blue dunks, others were marveling at the intricate details packed into the shoe. Every shoe collaboration that FLY Streetwear’s founder Jeff…
Etnies shoes and Ryan Sheckler have been synonymous over the past 25 years, with Etnies sponsoring Ryan at eight years old and their partnership marking one of the longest running ones in the skate shoe industry. In this day and age with the influx of corporate athletic brands pumping money into skateboarding and snatching riders…
Nora Vasconcellos is one of the most inspirational skateboarders out today. Period. When it comes to skateboarding, she has an incredible style that’s effortless and powerful, and a well rounded trick selection that not only shines through her memorable “Welcome” and “OJ Wheels” video parts, but also contributing to her first place title in the…
There aren’t many shoe brands in the scene who can boast about having a product made for skateboarding thirty years ago, making very few tweaks along the way and having it still widely adopted by skateboarders today. And then there’s Vans. A company with skateboarding at its core, and a product portfolio of skateboarding’s most…
