Skateboarding

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.

7/31/2024 |  There Skateboards’ First Nike SB Dunk Low Sneaker Brings a Spotlight to Queer and Trans Skaters (Footwear News) There, the California-based skateboarding brand co-founded by artist Jeffrey Chung, is getting its first collaboration with Nike SB.
The There x Nike SB Dunk Low features the artwork of Cheung and begins its rollout this week. The black and green sneaker makes use of two-tone hairy suede, as Cheung’s “ultra-humanized” figures decorate the faded black overlays. Plain black hairy suede then forms the shoe’s uperlays, while green is used for the leather Swoosh, sockliner and outsole. Another of Cheung’s figures is printed onto the outsole and centered upon the forefoot’s pivot point, and additional figures form mismatched metal lace dubraes. Hand-drawn branding appears on the tongue and heels, and the insole is also decorated with Cheung’s artwork.