For the Love of Skateboarding
Gustavo Ribeiro has one of the most storied competitive skateboarding careers of his generation.
Carrying the torch for Europe in a sphere dominated by the giants of USA, Brazil and Japan, World Skate sat down with the Portuguese leader of the new school to discuss pressure, progression and life at the cutting edge of skateboarding’s most demanding theatre of dreams.
Sora goes for back to back wins in this thrilling finals here at the WST World Cup Kitakyushu.
Women’s finals here in Kitakyushu was one for the BOOKS.
Australian skater and one of a kind Liv Lovelace joins the World Skate media team at the WST World Cup Kytakyushu, trying out a vintage camcorder to film Chloe Covell, Momoji Nishiya, Coco Yoshizawa & more.
As a bronze medallist in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Funa Nakayama became a standard-bearer of Japan’s staggering ascent in competitive skateboarding.
Having won WST Rome outright in 2022- which remains her sole WST victory to date- Funa scored the cover of Thrasher magazine in January 2023 with her trademark frontside crooked grind down the proving-ground Hollywood High handrail. Olympic medallist, World Skateboarding Tour Stop Winner, Thrasher cover star all by the age of 17.
With a confidence-restoring, come-from-behind second place at WST Rome last June sending her up the World Skateboarding Ranking to a comfortable 3rd place, WST caught up with her ahead of the World Skateboarding Tour’s return to her country for WST Kitakyushu Street World Cup this November.
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!
Read the full interview HERE.
World Skate caught up with Leticia in Rome to talk about her new role as Chair of the World Skate Skateboarding Technical Commission. She shared what it’s like to be at the contest not as a competitor, but from the other side of the lens; along with the evolution of skateboarding over the past 20 -22 years since she first stepped on a board, the incredible progression of women’s skateboarding, and much more.
Hypeman Manny Santiago joins a practice heat during the WST World Cup Rome 2025 Street and brings in his vibes vlogging with a vintage camera.
Featuring Dashawn Jordan, Gustavo Ribeiro, Giovanni Vianna, Angelo Caro, Tyson Bowerbank, Kelvin Hoefler, Jake Ilardi, Greg Rodriguez, Tommy Finn & Micky Papa.
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The Spot is a significant landmark in the history of global skateboard competitions, as well as a hub for emerging talent. World Skate caught up with the skatepark’s manager, William Zanchelli, and local hero and Olympian, Alessandro Mazzara.
If the World Skateboarding Tour brings together skateboarders of the world in a kind of circular flowering, then those roots stretch out like spokes from the WST hub to a whole lot of very different backgrounds from which each of our skateboarders came.
The first episode focuses on the charismatic twenty-year-old Dutchwoman Keet Oldenbeuving from Utrecht in the Netherlands. From dragging a grind rail out the front of her house to featuring in video parts for Nike and Santa Cruz Skateboards, Keet has already managed to strike a sponsorship balance few achieve in this day and age.