Recent Entries

• The Body Count: How Many Skaters Does It Take to Actually Own a Skate Park

  by Dez Fontaine May 13
  You ever notice how skate parks became these weird monuments to nobody? Like we fought for them, bled for them, got arrested protecting them, and now they're just sitting there like some municipal trophy case that proves the city listens to young people. Except they don't. Not really. They just list...

• Skateboarding Saved Me From Becoming a Boring Adult

  by Dez Fontaine May 13
  I'm not gonna pretend I discovered some deep spiritual truth while ollying down a hill. That's cap. But I did realize something real sitting on my board at like 6 AM before the world got loud, watching the sun hit the pavement just right, and I was thinking man, this is the last place where I'm stil...

• Skateboarding as a Second Language

  by Dez Fontaine May 13
  I never thought about it this way until like three weeks ago, but skateboarding is basically how I learned to communicate when words weren't cutting it anymore. Not in some corny metaphorical way either. I'm talking about actual translation happening in real time.See, I grew up in a house where feel...

• Skateboarding Taught Me How to Fail in Public and Not Die

  by Dez Fontaine May 13
  I used to think skateboarding was about landing tricks. Took me years to realize it's actually the opposite. It's about eating concrete so many times that you stop counting. It's about your body becoming fluent in the language of failure, and somewhere in that repetition, you find something that loo...

• The Problem With Skateboarding When Everybody's Watching

  by Dez Fontaine May 13
  I been thinking about this a lot lately. How skateboarding went from something you did in empty parking lots at midnight to something that's on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, every platform you can name. And I'm not hating on the exposure or the new spots getting built or kids picking up boards who wou...