Skateboarding

8/22/2025 |  Why Skate and Other Vulcanized Sneakers Are Poised for a Major Comeback (Footwear News)   One of the hottest sneakers of the summer is a nearly 50-year-old skateboarding shoe inspired by an 11-year-old luxury messenger bag.
It’s been quite some time since Vans had a sneaker release as hyped as its Old Skool “Souvenir,” which is inspired by the revered Chanel On the Pavement messenger bag from 2014. Having sold out expeditiously, it fetched resale prices as high as the $400 range on platforms such as StockX — roughly four times its retail price of $125.

2/24/2025 |  England: Hotel, megastore and amphitheatre; changes at John Smith's Stadium (StadiumDB.com) A new investment could change the future of John Smith's Stadium. Huddersfield Town plans to transform the stadium into a lively centre for sports, business and entertainment.

2/20/2025 |  Jackalope Block Party Headed to Australia (SportsTravel) Jackalope, a Montreal-based skateboarding and action sports events company, has announced it will take its Jackalope Block Party to Newcastle, New South Wales in Australia, in November.
Being held outside North America for the first time, the festival at South Newcastle Skate Park will feature athletes competing for prizes, skateboarding demonstrations and more. The Jackalope Block Party is one of 11 initiatives to share in the latest round of City Centre and Darby Street SBR funding, with almost $900,000 to be used for the promotion, beautification and development of the business precincts.

11/11/2024 |  AntiHero Skateboards and Nike SB Are Collaborating for Just the Second Time Ever (Footwear News) AntiHero Skateboards is one of the most renowned labels in the sport, which made its debut Nike SB collaboration in 2018 a landmark occasion. Six years later, the two skateboarding dynamos are reuniting once again for another set of the Dunk and Blazer. 

8/5/2024 |  The 49-year-old skateboarder who crossed paths with dragons on 4-wheeled odyssey to 2024 Olympics (Associated Press (AP)) PARIS (AP) — Of the 10,500 athletes at the Paris Olympics, skateboarder Dallas Oberholzer is surely the only one to have crossed paths with dragons on his four-wheeled round-the-world odyssey to the 2024 Games.
The 49-year-old from South Africa had to go to the jungles of Peru to find them. There, under a shaman’s watchful eye, the grizzled traveler who also competed at the Tokyo Games that marked skateboarding’s Olympic debut, placing last in the men’s park event, tapped into the psychedelic powers of ayahuasca, a plant-based brew that indigenous peoples in Latin America have long used for healing and rituals.