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Video: Skateboarding In Shanghai
Apr 14th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
"Shanghai 5" from Charles Lanceplaine on Vimeo.
Skateboarding in Shanghai must be a great way to see the city. With wind in your face and chance looming all around you, there's got to be something distinctly exhilarating about skateboarding through a foreign city; experiencing a new culture in a twisting and turning flash. I'm not a skateboarder myself, so I don't know for sure, but this is how ...
Video of The Day: Bangkok featured in skate video
Nov 2nd, 2011 at 5:00PM:
I just saw beautiful images of Bangkok in a, what turned out to be, surprising skate video. BillabongASIA's Geng Jakkarin is profiled in this video titled "I Skate Because". And while Jakkarin's story is moving and his skate tricks are, well, sick, I couldn't help but fixate on the Bangkok sights and scenes within the short film. The video starts off with a shot of a painted train over a track ...
Skate the Mississippi on Red Bull's Mississippi Grind
Sep 24th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
The life of a professional skateboarder could make anyone jealous, but now there's one more reason to consider leaving that office job and running off with your deck. A few intrepid fellas from the Midwest are currently sailing down the great Mississippi river in a customized barge with a skate park built onto the top surface. Making stops along the backbone of the river and in snapshots of ...
Photo of the day - Panama on skateboard
Jul 21st, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Skateboarders get a bad rap: they travel in packs of (usually) teenage boys, gravitate towards public buildings and spaces, and redefine the word "loiter." But this shot by Flickr user aaroncolorado taken in Panama City, Panama is graceful, almost balletic. No doubt the no-goodniks were promptly chased away from their hangout spot, but looks like they had a good afternoon skating.
Have some ...Afghanistan's first skateboarding park, Skateistan
Dec 31st, 2009 at 4:00PM:
Two years ago, a couple of Australians started teaching kids in Kabul to skateboard. For free. The activity instills them with confidence and courage, and offers them what youths all over the world want: a way to escape. "Teenagers are trying to dissociate from old mentalities, and I'm their servant," Oliver Percovich, one of the Australians, told the New York Times last January. "If they ...Photo of the Day (09.13.08)
Sep 13th, 2008 at 3:00PM:
This is a great action shot taken by AlphaTangoBravo in Bordeaux, France. You wouldn't normally associate olleys with historical monuments, but with the impressive cathedral in the background and the skater in the foreground, the picture manages to capture both the essence of old and new.
Want your picture featured on Gadling? Submit your best shots here. ...Brit Skateboards Entire Length of the Outback
Mar 7th, 2007 at 9:11AM: No, not the restaurant -- Dave Cornthwaite skateboarded the entire length of Australia! Cornthwaite left Perth last August, hoping to raise money for a charity. Seven months and 3700 miles later, Cornthwaite arrived on the other edge of the sprawling country with a whopping $40,000 in donations, a whole load of blisters, and a new world record. Claiming he'd do it again, Cornthwaite downplays his ...
