Royal Oak’s Modern Skate & Surf is one of Michigan’s longest-standing skateboard shops. Founded by George Leichtweis in 1979, not only was it one of the first three inline skate shops in the world, ...

To the naked eye one may not assume that the scorching desert would be the pioneer-land to skateboarding in the 1960s, but you'd be wrong. Arizona is widely considered to be home to the world's first ...

Students participate in a surfing lesson with the Broward County-based homeschool co-op Surf Skate Science on Deerfield Beach in March 2023. This story was updated on Nov. 9. To Luna Ojeda, flipping ...

The history of skateboarding dates back to the ‘50s when kids in California built their boards by hand. It’s a culture born on the fringes of society, no matter how big the billion-dollar industry ...

Over the last several decades skateboarding has grown from something for West Coast rebels to an Olympic-worthy sport. For the past 40 of those years, Metro Detroit skaters have turned to George ...