It’s been a long winter in the Northwest. Portland, Oregon residents Chet Childress, Matt Beach, Daniel Shimizu, and Al Partanen spent a week of the dark season at the Nike SB warehouse filming for this new clip, shot and edited by Jon Humphries. provided by transworld via Blair Alley

etnies is re-creating the skateboarding classic shoe the Rap. Coming from the first skateboarder-owned shoe company, the etnies Rap was different than anything else on the market at the time. etnies is bringing back the Rap model in 2009 with the addition of several technical upgrades including vulcanized soles alongside mid/low cut models. A video [...]

Look for James in the upcoming Zero video “Strange World.”

By Ben Powell Hold the fuck up and look at this cover: it’s a dude skating in sunglasses, cropped to provide no reference to where he’s coming from or landing, grabbing stinkbug, and it’s blurry as all hell. Four strikes, and that’s just the cover! Probably the worst skate photo I’ve seen printed in years. [...]

By Sean Mortimer, Foreword by Tony Hawk Stalefish isn’t the best title, but the premise for the book is definitely great: it contains pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about skating, past and present, straight from the lips of legends like Stacy Peralta, Mullen, Hawk, Vallely, Jamie Thomas, and Haslam. Basically, it’s a [...]

By Scott Bourne, Kenny Reed, Pontus Alv, more For a while, several years back, I traveled around with pro skaters Scott Bourne and Kenny Reed, among others, just skating and living the life of a pro hobo/skater (not that I was ever pro), depleting the little savings I’d put away to do exactly what I [...]

By Michael Burnett (michaelburnettphoto.com) Mike Burnett is the main photo dude at Thrasher Magazine (I think they call it a staff photographer or photo editor, but Vapors obviously doesn’t have one), and I’ve been known to credit him with bringing that prestigious magazine back from the edge of, um, going nowhere. I like Mike—not so [...]

“You don’t stay the little dude forever.” By Casey Duggan While Torey Pudwill is not exactly an adult, he sure as hell isn’t the little kid with the bowl haircut anymore. And even though Simi Valley, California may not be the most culturally diverse or stimulating place to have grown up, Torey has actually come [...]

What’s happening? Nothing much, just trying to power through everything right now. There’s so many contests going on and I’m working on my video part for Globe as well. Yeah I know your schedule has been hectic! You’ve got the stuff with Lil Jon, and the BME Click, and the new stuff going on with [...]

Words by Mackenzie Eisenhour Chri$ Nieratko knows skateboarding pretty well. He owns NJ Skate Shops, and contributes his writing to skate mags and Vice Magazine. So when he recently called the Slap message boards “The last bastion of free speech in skateboarding,” it was a bold statement. Especially considering that skateboarding itself was once considered [...]