Category: Interview

4DWN Dallas is Doing it Right! – Theories of Atlantis

4DWN Skatepark in Dallas, Texas is reimagining of what skateparks can be….our friend, and TOA field reporter, Justin Hill, snuck over to check out this incredible operation and report back to us with a little video report as well as an in-depth article which is live now olive.

Check out the full article and interviews HERE.

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VICE – In Between Magic and Reality: The Jon Miner Story | Let It Kill You

If you were a skateboarder in the early 2000s, chances are you grew up on Jon Miner’s work. The visionary behind iconic projects like This is Skateboarding, Kids in Emerica, Stay Gold, and more, Miner helped define a generation of skate videos. Skaters couldn’t get enough of his signature look and feel — raw, stylish, unforgettable.

To kick off Season 2 of Let It Kill You, series creator Ben McQueen heads to Santa Rosa to dive into Jon’s personal life, tracing his journey through stories, memories, and candid moments. Jon gets real — personal, vulnerable, and unfiltered — opening up about skateboarding, life, and what it takes to be one of the best skateboarders to ever step behind the camera.

From Andrew Reynolds to Heath Kirchart, hear from the legends themselves as they reflect on what made working with Jon so special.

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Cory Keen & Dale Decker | The Nine Club #374

Cory Keen & Dale Decker discuss how Dale got involved with Cory and Keen Ramps, Dale running CCS’s TikTok account, modifying skate spots out in the wild, Cory’s felony charge skating a gap into water, Dale’s move from Michigan to California to live the skate dream, Cory rebuilt Thrasher’s Wallenberg roll in, buying a Desert Skate Ranch and much more!

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Georgia Martin Goes from Ramps to Streets and Lands on Toy Machine | Then / Now

From a Spiderman Target board to a Mini Logo, Georgia Martin has now graduated to riding a Toy Machine board with her name on it! The Charlotte, North Carolina native now lives in Long Beach, California but she hasn’t forgotten her roots. Did you know she used to exclusively rip skateparks and quarterpipes? They may have been her first calling on the board but over the years she has transitioned away from ramps and into the streets. Tap in to learn a little more about her past and present from favorite videos, crews she skates with, and her go-to tricks in this episode of Then/Now with Georgia Martin.

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Steve Douglas | The Nine Club #373

Steve Douglas discusses growing up in London & skating in the 70s, did Steve Rocco help start New Deal, Paul Schmitt’s secret factory producing Blind boards, Vision’s biggest mistake was calling their distribution Vision, Selling Element Skateboards, Steve Rocco opening the door to skater run companies, the blank board debacle, starting 411 Video Magazine, the car accident that almost ended him, Bam Margera asking them to distribute CKY Landspeed, Sidewalk Distribution’s heritage collections and much more!

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How Tiago Lemos Turned a Skater’s Dream Into a Reality | SKATE TALES

We may all know Tiago Lemos as the king of pop, the street skater who can hit higher obstacles than anyone else. The biggest name in the game today is pro for Paul Rodriguez’s elite Primitive Skateboards and has his own signature New Balance shoe, but his story started somewhere very different indeed.

Born into poverty in the tiny town of Jaguariúna (it means river of the black jaguars in Portuguese), Tiago and his friends flew homemade kites and discovered skateboarding as a cheap way to stay out of trouble. From sleeping on the streets of one of the world’s most dangerous cities, to skating for 12 hours a day with no food, Tiago led a dreamer’s existence which relied on the kindness of friends and the balm of hope to keep his path in life headed toward a positive outcome.

In this episode of Skate Tales we dive into Tiago’s untold story—the underdog tale of a kid chasing something bigger—as Madars’s heads to Brazil to meet with Tiago’s childhood friends Kaue Cossa, Fabio Castilho, Sandro Sobral and Lucas Nascimento to learn how the biggest name in skateboarding today came up through the world’s most challenging skate scenes—and kept both his dreams, and their friendships, alive.

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