Catching Up With | Leticia Bufoni

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.

Continue Reading

STOMPING GROUNDS – KEET OLDENBEUVING & BYST ACADEMY

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.

Continue Reading

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

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

Continue Reading