Slam Skateboarding

Where there’s a will there’s a way. With both New South Wales and Victoria heavily locked down over the past few months, the city-dwelling skateboarders of Sydney and Melbourne have had to make the most of their window of ‘daily exercise’. There is o

When I was asked to write an article looking back at the Olympics, I considered just submitting the words “Keegan” and “Palmer” repeated 1000 times to fill a page and calling it a day. But if you’ve read this far, you’ll know that pitch didn’t quite

In March 2019, Perth skateboarder, filmer and friend to many, Blake Manning, was diagnosed with a form of cancer that attacks the body’s immune system: stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At 27, Blake has been skating for almost 20 years, filming since he

Hayley Wilson is one of Australia’s most well known female skateboarders. She is a 19-year-old street skater from Mansfield, in regional Victoria, and often skates in Melbourne with her homies on the Nike team. Hayley’s had footage in Gizmo, Welcome

For Keegan Palmer, the interviews and media appearances have all started to blur into one. It sounds exhausting, but that’s inevitably what happens after you become the first guy in history to win an Olympic gold medal for park skateboarding. At the

Melbourne’s locked down for the sixth time when I speak to Brad Saunders, but he has not been deterred from hitting the streets for his ‘daily exercise’. Later today, he’s planning on meeting up with Jeremy Corea to skate, and then tonight, he’s hopi

What’s going on, Rome? Like most people, I’m at home in lockdown at the moment. It’s not too bad since I get to see my brother and sister more, but not being able to skate with my mates is annoying. I’ve been helping my brother building bike jumps a

Before the pandemic changed everything, Matt Boggis had been touring relentlessly with his band, The Chats. Boggis plays drums with the cheeky and irreverent Sunshine Coast trio who blew up in 2017 and write classic songs that could only have come ou