Reader’s Choice: Analysis, Rants and Raves
April 30, 2013 – 2:48 PM | No Comment

The AXS Gear/Concrete Wave Readers’ Choice survey yielded a tremendous amount of information. Almost 4,000 people took the time to fill out the survey, with an average time of 14-plus minutes to complete! That represents almost 40 days’ worth of time! We produced a fully comprehensive listing of all companies in the Concrete Wave Buyer’s Guide. But here, for the purpose of space, we will address some of the key findings from the survey. We instituted two distinct changes this year. First, we changed the actual questions to reflect what brands are actually owned by readers. Rather than focusing on the word favorite,” we wanted to know what people actually had in their quiver.

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Longboarding Past a Midlife Crisis.
May 29, 2012 – 7:01 PM | No Comment
Longboarding Past a Midlife Crisis.

“It’s a total midlife crisis,” said the group’s leader, Tom Barnhart, 47, of Cresskill, N.J., who started skateboarding two years ago for the first time since the Carter administration. His life, he said, had been in a rut. “My kids grew old, so I got a dog. My dog grew old, so I got a skateboard.”

Poole Man will Longboard to Paris in Memory of his Father
May 28, 2012 – 5:58 PM | No Comment
Poole Man will Longboard to Paris in Memory of his Father

AN OUTDOOR sports fan from Poole is embarking on an epic journey to raise cash to buy a headstone for his dad’s grave. Skateboarder Ben Schofield, 21, will longboard 140 miles from Le Havre in northern France to Paris in an attempt to raise £1,200 in memory of dad Alan Brooks Schofield,

Kimberley Longboarders Look Out
May 28, 2012 – 5:53 PM | No Comment
Kimberley Longboarders Look Out

Overwaitea Hill and seeing a longboarder heading at you is a little disconcerting, is the boarder breaking the law? Police did a little sleuthing through provincial statutes and found something they think fits the bill. Newel says they found a statute regarding “Unauthorized use of a Highway”.

Weight Sensing Skateboard?
May 28, 2012 – 1:09 PM | No Comment
Weight Sensing Skateboard?

Electric scooters and Segways are both legitimate forms of transportation, but they’re just so dorky looking.

Cabbie Faces Murder Charge – After Killing Skateboarder
May 15, 2012 – 12:26 PM | No Comment
Cabbie Faces Murder Charge – After Killing Skateboarder

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 VIGIL for longboarder Ralph Bissonnette  Tomorrow at 3:00pm at St. James Park.   A taxi driver has been charged with second-degree murder after a skateboarder was fatally hit by his vehicle in downtown Toronto Monday …

The 2012 “Mt. Tabor Downhill Challenge”: June 24th
May 5, 2012 – 2:43 PM | No Comment
The 2012 “Mt. Tabor Downhill Challenge”: June 24th

Break the piggie bank, sell the mule, hoe the pasture—whatever it is that you gotta do to get to Portland, Oregon for the 2012 Tabor Downhill Challenge—make it happen! Here are all the juicy details, and straight from Mr. Billy Bones himself: