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World Skateboarding Tour (WST) 2025 – Italy, Japan, USA

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The 2025 schedule for the World Skateboarding Tour has just been announced!

Italy, Japan and the USA will all host WST stops, beginning in Europe in June 2025 before heading to North America in September and then touching down in Asia at the end of November.

The cities of Rome, Washington DC and Kitakyushu will be our hosts on a new year of the tour mixing traditional favourites with new locations as the WST continues to traverse the globe, bringing new adventures to all as we go!

WST OSTIA, Park JUN 01-08
WST ROME, Street JUN 08-15
WST WASHINGTON DC Park World Championship SEP 19-26
WST WASHINGTON DC Street World Championship SEP 21-28
WST KITAKYUSHU Street NOV 23-30

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The Platfrm First Person: Bucky Lasek Reflects on Vans Combi Bowl a Skateboarding Mecca

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The lore of the Combi Bowl has been a proving ground for skateboarders to push their limits and flaunt their style, turning the Vans Pool Party event into a legendary stage that has become part of skateboarding’s history. 2025 marked the last go at the Combi inside the Vans store in Orange, California, making some of the best transition skaters reacquaint themselves with its twelve-foot walls. To truly understand the intensity Combi brings out, we tap in with three-time Vans Pool Party champ ‪Bucky Lasek in First Person to view the preparation, mindset, and impact this bowl has made on skateboarding over the past two decades.

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