It takes people like us to get it going ... I'm organizing a race in my town this June. Even the people in the skate shops around here are like, "Huh? A slalom race? Well, I guess we are seeing more and more people buying longboards." Sheesh! There are 3 skate shops in Madison, Wisconsin. The people...

I started skating back in the middle 1960's at the age of 5 or 6. My older brother is 10 years older than me and I always did whatever he did. I survived the steel wheel era, the clay wheel era, and I even had a rubber-wheeled board between the clay and urethane eras. In the late 70's I was in my la...

Here’s your chance to be a super-star! Sun Prairie is a medium-sized town in south-central Wisconsin. There are skateboarders here, but they are mostly middle schoolers and high schoolers that mostly just attempt to do kickflips on popsicle stick boards with tiny little rock-hard white wheels. I am ...

I have a narrow board, therefore I am running on 85mm Tracker Mids. I have the front on wedged 15* and the back one de-wedged 10*. Works really great for me.