"Get lost in the push." That's the motto Jason "Jay" VanPorppal and Orio Ramirez are repeating as they venture through the sweltering heat and scalding roads of Arizona. Despite 14-hour days and ...

They skateboarded on basketball courts and in parking lots, through highway intersections and down roads that twist from the mesas that rise above the high desert. They set up tricks with old railroad ...

Can you discuss Phoenix’s skateboarding history without mentioning the band JFA? The answer is no, unequivocally. The Tempe History Museum opened the “ Dry History: Local Skateboarding History” ...

To the naked eye one may not assume that the scorching desert would be the pioneer-land to skateboarding in the 1960s, but you'd be wrong. Arizona is widely considered to be home to the world's first ...

Jagger Eaton of Mesa, who came into the 2024 Paris Olympics as one of Arizona's favorites to bring home a medal, did just that after winning silver in the men's street skateboarding final on Monday.

VILLAGE OF TEWA, AZ — They skateboarded on basketball courts and in parking lots, through highway intersections and down roads that twist from the mesas that rise above the high desert. They set up ...

It might seem strange to think of skateboarding as a historical topic, but the truth is that metro Phoenix is a place where the wheels have spun for a very long time. To celebrate that tradition, ...

Every now and then an indie skate video drops that just feels… different. Josh Metzger’s Fantasy Collision is exactly that. It's a beautifully produced visual postcard of Arizona skateboarding, if you ...

The University of Arizona campus is filled with anti-skateboarding architecture. Students cannot walk throughout any part of the campus without seeing the small L-shaped brackets on benches, curbs or ...

While bikes are heavily regulated on campus, skateboards are becoming more of an issue as their popularity rises. Alex Rosenthal, a pre-business freshman, said he has been riding his longboard since ...