Former pro-skateboarder Darren Kaehne helped design parks at Mona Vale,Terrey Hills,Belrose and Curl Curl. Here’s his list of Sydney’s top places to air,carve,grind and kickflip.
Sydney councils are continuing to build skate parks despite strong opposition from some residents.
Between Australia’s success in skateboarding at the Olympics and exercise restricted to outdoors because of COVID-19,councils are investing in new facilities as Sydneysiders embrace the sport.
Eddie Martin has made a documentary that shows the fall-out from an art-house classic from the 1990s.
Surfing,skateboarding and sport climbing made their Olympic debuts in Tokyo and brought everything organisers hoped for. The line-up for Paris will be different.
With the world still in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of its Delta variant,in some respects these Olympics came at exactly the right time,albeit a year later than scheduled.
But forget medal counts;Australia is having a crazy run in Tokyo,dude.
One awesome run first time out would have secured gold for the young Australian. So he went even better on his final run.
The youngest competitors in the Olympics’ youngest sport were doing disappointment their very own way. And until the end,disappointment looked strangely like joy.
The 13-year-old skateboarder took silver to Japan’s Momiji Nishiya in street skateboarding. Her talent and nickname have captivated her nation.
Nishiya Momiji,the pocket rocket from Osaka,has given Japan a new national hero and one of two golds from skateboarding events.