Skateboarding

FORT LAUDERDALE How to roll lessons about skateboarding, physics and creativity into one cool package? A new exhibit at the Museum of Discovery and Science is ready to show you how. The Tony Hawk: RAD Science Skate Exhibit features 25 interactive...

Skateboarders generally view their activity as more of an art than a science. They don't worry about things such as inertia, force or velocity. It's more about creating while in the moment and pulling off another trick. But it doesn't hurt for the...

Before skaters recorded tricks on their phones and ESPN began airing the X Games or "extreme sports on TV," a Hollywood Hills High kid so slight that he looked more like a sixth-grader leaned back on his board and popped it into the air — without...

To celebrate its new traveling exhibit, “Tony Hawk: RAD Science,” the Museum of Discovery and Science will put on a two-day RAD Science SkateFest May 25 and 26 presented by Ramp 48 and Island Water Sports. The event will feature Create-A-...

STANFORD — Local government officials may begin looking into the possibility of building a skate park after a Stanford grandmother brought attention to the lack of space for skateboarders. Brenda McFerron told Stanford City Council members last...

CLERMONT — Competitors from 6 to 62 will take part Saturday in the first in a series of skateboarding contests that aim to promote sanctioned longboard racing in Lake. Lake County is co-sponsoring the event with the Ian Tilmann Foundation, a...

Driving along Cliff Drive on a recent Monday, Laguna Beach civilian officer Alfred Casas spotted a 19-year-old holding a skateboard. Casas, 6-foot-4 and burly, calmly approached the man and respectfully asked if he knew about a city ordinance that...

Should a Tony Hawk-endorsed skateboard park be a neighbor to South Los Angeles' cultural landmark, the Watts Towers? In what could become a battle between athletics and aesthetics, the answer will be up to city officials, who figure to get an earful from...

Reginald Destin died doing what he loved most: skateboarding. After taking up the sport at a young age, Destin, 42, became a pillar in the Chicago skateboarding community, known by many for his signature “wall ride” move that took Destin...

The risks and rewards of forging one’s own path were displayed Wednesday night at a screening of perhaps the most surprising film on this year’s Film Forward program of movies. “Bones Brigade: An Autobiography” is the story...

Ashley O'Gorman loves skateboarding enough to want to do it all year, even when it's bitter cold outside. "I really like the adrenaline rush," Ashley, 15, says. So her mother, Debbie, drives from Pawling, N.Y., to Bristol as frequently as she can, so...

"The police said we had to put up no skateboarding signs or there was nothing they could do," said Reverend John Fulcher. The signs are up and the message is clear but at First Baptist Church in Uptown Martinsville the point hasn't gotten across. "I...