Category Archives: Skate

The crew at MiNDTAi is proud to announce the launch of MiNDTAi.TV. A homegrown video station that will kick you in the face and leave you scratching for more. Stealing From The City is our first mind-altering presentation, so kick-back and enjoy yourself, this one’s on MiNDTAi.

As kids, we were always figuring out ways to piss off the public and do exactly what we wanted, most of the time that meant skating whenever and wherever we damn-well pleased. After skating at the park all day everyday, we discovered we could unplug the vending machines and plug in our own flood lights to light up the park after dark and score sessions all to ourselves. Overtime the cops caught on and started to write us tickets for “stealing electricity from the city.” This only scared us off for so long…
One night under the full moon in late February, we (the MindTai boys) decided to head out under the bright moonlight and score our favorite local skate park with no one out. After a brief spliff session we quickly set up the lights and got to skating. Throughout the session there were thoughts about the pigs spoiling all the fun, but it never happened. Only an all-time session with our best friends and a couple randoms that saw the lights from afar. Here’s the result of that epic night…

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Super heavy new video brought to you by Volcom and Thrasher Magazine. Featuring David Gonzalez, Grant Taylor, Collin Provost, Pedro Barros, Louie Lopez, and Geoff Rowley.

BONES WHEELS presents their second video“NEW GROUND” starring: Ben Raybourn, Jared Huss, Trent McClung, Trevor McClung, Evan Smith, MOOSE, Josh Hawkins, Aldrin Garcia, Jordan Hoffart, JAWS, Dakota Servold, Chris Joslin, David Gravette, Chris Haslam, Ryan Dezenzo, Kevin Kowalski, Brad McClain, Matt Berger, Kevin Romar, and many more…

Watch the full length video below or download it for free HERE.

Red Bull is upping the ante yet again with this short film that follows Ryan Sheckler (San Clemente), Torey Pudwill (Simi Valley), Ryan Decenzo (Vancouver) and Zered Bassett (New York), on a journey from their hometowns to common ground. The camera work and the skating are top notch, this is definitely worth a watch. For a deeper perspective on this trip click HERE.

Here is the re-cap of Transworld SKATEboarding’s Skate & Create 2013. Skate & Create is a yearly competition consisting of four teams, two professional builders, 10 days on the open road with a filmer and TWS staff photographer to turn a blank canvas into a DIY creative masterpiece. This years competition included the Deathwish, Santa Cruz, Toy Machine, and Element squads. All the videos this year were pretty cool in their own way, but hats off to the Santa Cruz posse for an exceptionally killer vid. Vote for your favorite video here.

It’s a typical day in the life of the Deathwish gang. The sessions and locations were influenced by gangs, Hollywood, and Los Angeles culture. It wasn’t much of a stretch because skate crews can be very gang-like to begin with. The Deathwish dudes are a tight-knit crew. Overall, I don’t think this is too far from what these guys are actually like. It’s really close to the truth. You wouldn’t be surprised if you saw Jon Dickson on the beach asleep in the morning.—Skin Phillips

America was going through a major change in mind state in the ’50s and ’60s; people were going through a change in the way that they looked at society and the way that they thought about things. Humans are inventors, we can create something out of nothing, and that is exactly how skateboarding was born.—Chad Muska

Basically, we ended up building jump ramps and taking them to various things when our original idea was to do some stunt-like mega obstacles. But of course the police and security of the world made those big ideas impossible, and now we have this. WHOOPS!—Ed Templeton

When I moved to Santa Cruz in the mid-’60s it was a skateboarder’s utopia. It was a destination that any discerning skater had to make a trip to. No cops. No hassles. Just skating and rad vibes, the way it was supposed to be. Not to mention the most righteous terrain on the planet. It seemed like it would last forever, but like any society built on a single premise, Santa Cruz started to decay, and what was once a skateboarder’s paradise became a filthy beach ghetto. It’s still all about the skating and not much else. That’s probably why the city fell apart in the first place…—Terkin Von Knobske

Professional skateboarding legend Arto Saari has taken his love for skateboarding and channeled it into a new found passion; photography. Arto invites friends to his backyard bowl and although he still shreds with the best of them, you can now find him more times than not behind the lens. Being a professional skateboarder and closely working with industry professionals throughout his career has definitely aided his ability to nail the perfect shot. Check out his interview with Live Fast Mag below as he talks about his transition from being the subject of the shot to being the one doing the shooting. Also, if you happened to miss our coverage of Vice‘s Epicly Later’d series featuring Arto, you check those out here.