For the Love of Skateboarding
Join Pocket Skate Mag’s day with Aleksi aka Aatsi Souvaara in beautiful Helsinki and get to know this “Gentle Giant” as Chris Pfanner likes to call him. They hit Beyond Store to get new boards, send gainers off the pier into the sea and skate a number of spots with the Troposphere boys. Enjoy.
Featuring Eetu Toropainen, Onni Saltevo, Victor Höglund, Jukka Koskinen and Teemu Metsakyla.
Alexis Sablone’s story is unlike any other in skateboarding. From Boston’s early 2000s scene and her breakout part in PJ Ladd’s Wonderful Horrible Life, to earning a degree in architecture and stepping away from the spotlight, Alexis always did things her own way. Her return to skating led to turning pro, competing at the highest level, and helping open the door for a new era of women in skateboarding.
This is her story.
A Tribute to France’s Most Immaculate Technician, Lyon Finest Export & Magenta’s Guest this season: JB Gillet.
All roads lead to Plaza in the latest episode of $100 Chill featuring Mason Padilla.
Welcome back to Shop Talk, Jenkem’s series where they interview lurkers at the shop for their opinions and hot takes. For this episode Jenkem hits Tenant Skate Shop’s new location in Brooklyn, New York. As usual, people were hanging, booze was flowing, and shit was talked.
From the time he could walk, skateboarding is all Keegan Palmer has ever known. Tune in and get to know him on a much deeper level. In Depth with Keegan Palmer is playing now.
Steve Steadham discusses growing up skating spill ways & bank riding in Las Vegas, his first ride in the Dust Bowl, traveling to California on the Greyhound bus, Stacey Peralta asks him to join the team, why he thinks Hosoi should have won way more contests, starting his own comany Steadham Designs with Sure Grip International, when vert died his spirit for skating was done, The Steadham store in Las Vegas and much more!
Tom Asta heads out to Shenzhen, China for the latest On the Session!
In episode #93 Chris Roberts and the Nine Club talk about Monster Energy’s Down Straight Up Vol 4 video, New Balance Numeric 770 in Paris video, First Look at the New Balance 770 Shoe, Sandro Dias is attempting to claim a new world record for the highest skateboard drop in, Primitive Skate Proudly Welcomes Aimu Yamazuki, Tony Hawk raises $1,700,000 int The 900 Collection auction and much more!
Chaos and discipline only scratch the surface when describing all that is Chris Russell. Currently residing in Ocean Beach, San Diego—but originally from Hermosa Beach—Chris has been surrounded by surfing and skating since day one. Hitting the road to compete was a family affair in his early days, but as a teenager he began taking on the road solo to tear up and hold on to everything in his way.
But there’s another side to Chris, too. Lately, he’s been learning to be a strength and conditioning coach. For the last five years, Chris has taken to jiujitsu, learning a lot about discipline while taking his personal fitness to the next level. “Skateboarding is chaotic, and it’s the best thing, but I think within that—and as you get older—you want to feel a little bit more grounded and secure. The beauty about [jiujitsu] is that the better I am in here, the better I am on my board.” Go deep in this episode of Portraits: Chris Russell to see new clips of him ripping while he gives us an update on his life’s current events.
In New Forms, Brazil’s Giovanni Vianna talks us through how his personal style of skating has evolved. A Fakie pioneer, he explains how his father’s suggestion led him down a creative skateboarding path which has seen him put down some of the most impressive NBD’s in skate history. World Skate caught up with him to learn about commitment going blindside, square rail testing and Full Cab Bennetts!
Jake Vogel discusses being one of the first to kick it at EMB in San Francisco, meeting James Kelch for the first time, being called an “Embarcodarian”, the Dogtown demo that changed everything at EMB, watching Henry Sanchez & Mike Carroll’s progression, getting sponsored by Real Skateboards, why he never had a video part, the first trick done at Hubba Hideout and much more!