Feature Interviews

The Hood Games

Professional Skateboarder Karl Watson and Community leader K-Dubs on their organisation, The Hood Games, a social initiative to bring skateboarding into their community. Instrumentally inspirational to the Work in Skateboarding Project. Filmed in 2011

French Fred

Fred Mortagne, world renowned cinematographer and photographer, about his motivation on showcasing skateboard imagery in ways that its never been seen before, 2014

Kim Woozy, MAHFIA TV

MAHFIA.tv is an all girls action sports network. kim woozy, the founder of mahfia.tv is one of a number of women who have taken things into their own hands to create an invaluable resource for the growing number of girls around the world who are taking part in skateboarding today. 2014

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Indigo Skate Camp South Africa

Nestled in South Africa’s aptly named Valley of a Thousand Hills, the Indigo Skate Camp approaches skating not only as a way of life, but as a way to a better life.

Through Skateboarding, Indigo founder and skateboarder Dallas Oberholzer has transformed the lives of many people in the village by creating job opportunities as well as a chance to an education and travel. Read on for the story of this amazing journey that has done so much good for many people. 2015

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Matt Irving

Matt Irving, former art director and co owner of Juice Design, whose main client was Adidas Skateboarding, talks about the marketing and freelancing side of working in skateboarding 2014

Lisa Whittaker

One of the largest Advocates for the Girls Skateboarding industry, Lisa Whitaker hasbeen skating for 30 years. Known for establishing the Girls Skate Network; a Youtube channel and website, she also has her own board company called Meow Skateboards which she created

to enable some of the top female street skaters to be able to be part of a team and to be sponsored. Her passion for growing Girls Skateboarding has been highly important to the industry as the projects she has created have all filled a void and if she hadn’t started them, there would still be a void. 2015

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Bryggeriets Gymnasium

Malmo Sweden, Bryggeriets is a high school which incorporates skateboarding into it’s curriculum. Another example of skateboarding being a useful educational tool the founders of this unique school had the vision of combining students passion with high school education and the outcome is a successful school where the regulations of the Swedish school system are met without compromising the freedoms which are associated with skateboarding. 2015

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Masafumi Kajitani

Massa is the Chief Editor for VHS Magazine, an online skateboarding magazine based in Tokyo. The idea behind VHS is to share what's going on in the skate world to Japanese Skateboarders without the language barrier and also to get Japanese skaters out into the world. 2016

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Environmental Product Development

Satori Movements inspiration has been to find new ways to reduce our environmental impact one sustainable garment / wheel at a time. As well as creating garments from Hemp and organic cotton, they manufacture a line of recycled wheels called ReLife which are made of old skated wheels. 2014

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Skate Like a Girl Org

Skate Like a Girl is a non-profit organization focused on providing opportunities for all people to skateboard and take leadership in their communities, 2015

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Patrick Wallner 

Visual Traveler,  Patrik Wallner takes skaters to places you wouldn't ever think would be possible to visit with skateboarding.  His videos have shown the rest of the world what it's like to skate in North Korea, Iran, the far East and enabled us to get a window into the cultures of many different countries. 2015

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Elemental Awareness Foundation

The Elemental Awareness Foundation was set up to connect kids to Nature through skateboarding. By using skateboarding and a wilderness/camp experience they have been educating, inspiring and instilling self-confidence in their participants. 2015

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The Killing Floor Skateboards

John Vitale is the Founder and Creative director of the Killing Floor, a small board company based in Portland, Oregon. Living in one of the most creatively vibrant and weirdest cities in the U.S where people are known for taking action & not just talking about it, it’s no surprise that The Killing Floor has an impressively different graphic portfolio, which has been gaining international attention. 2015

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