Rich Novak is a pioneering skateboarding figure who co-founded NHS, Inc. in 1973, significantly shaping the skateboard industry for over 50 years.NHS? Novak’s co-founders were Doug Haut and Jay Schuirman, their company grew from a surf-focused entity into a major skateboard manufacturer, producing brands like Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Trucks, OJ Wheels and Creature. Their […]
Moving from Liverpool, England, to Huntington Beach, California, at the age of 18, Geoff Rowley quickly created a fanbase. An amazing technical street skater, unafraid to risk it all on larger terrain, he featured on the cover of Transworld Magazine in just two weeks. He would go on to accumulate incredible video parts and multiple accolades like being named Skater of the Year in 2000 by Thrasher and ranked the 26th most influential skater in 2011 by Transworld. An avid outdoorsman, Geoff is passionate about wildlife conservation and is a hunting guide and company owner of knife and tool manufacturing company, CIVILWARE. – C. Harp Videos Covers: Ads:
Nothing like getting back one of your old riders … still complete Mt Baldy set up from @death_cloak So @bunkrock911 met guy who had this board who was friend of Simon Hill from Claremont old skate friend from early days even before Pipeline skatepark .. Simon had a pool in his backyard where he talked his parents into emptying
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Few have furthered the culture of skateboarding, on and off the board, more than Mike Carroll. During his humble beginnings in Daly City California, Carroll gravitated toward the board due to his cousin and brother’s influence, though he frequently was sent barreling down the hill, crashing into trashcans. But this newfound obsession would take him
A man of many titles, Rick Howard is known as an entrepreneur, producer, and most importantly a skateboarder. Moving from Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, to California when he was seventeen, Rick soon gathered early sponsors with Blockhead Skateboards in 1988 and Gullwing Trucks. Howard would find his first full length part in Blockhead’s video Splendid
Starting to skate in 1970, he was inspired by the pros he would see in the magazines. He came into his own at the Runway Skatepark and when Kanoa Surf called about an upcoming contest, Howard became pro. From there he was featured in multiple ads and skated in contests. Never one for the limelight,
RIP Jeff Grosso I’ve posted this one before and I’ll probably post it again. As always when friends die we examine them, and I always realize that the people who pass will be missed because of how they made us feel about ourselves. I had ups and downs with Jeff over the years, but he
B.B. ’79 S.H.O.F. – 2022 Scott Foss began his skateboarding voyage in the summer of 1968 at 4 years old in San Jose, California, launching over the garage expansion joint, feeling his first taste of speed bombing down the driveway and mastering the bottom turn onto the sidewalk. At that point skateboarding became his personal
