Fancy getting your hands on a sweet new Creature skate setup FOR FREE, well today’s your lucky day! Us lovely folk at The Extreme Sports Company have one up for grabs! All you need to do is click here, and upload the most RAD photo you can find. This could be absolutely anything, from a crazy [...]
May 10, 2013
covanaut
NEWS, SKATEBOARD
London’s Southbank undercroft has gained the reputation as one the UK’s most legendary skate spots – even making the cut to feature (terribly) on Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4! Over the past few years the undercroft has slowly been reduced in size, until now when the spot is threatened with altogether relocation. The area is [...]
A little history lesson of skateboarding by the skateboarders who made it. Credited with introducing skateboarding to Punk Rock, Duane Peters was not only the first person to attempt the loop, he also invented a host of our staple tricks from the Indy air to the Disaster. [...]
December 14, 2012
andrew
NEWS, SKATEBOARD, VIDEO
“Meet The Stans” is a skate/travel video I stumbled across this on my daily trawl of Vimeo (don’t forget to check into the Covanaut Vimeo Channel for the best new snow, street and surf edits). Being a sucker for people adventuring in alien places with boards in tow, I was instantly drawn in, and subsequently [...]
November 5, 2012
covanaut
ASIA, SKATEBOARD, TRAVEL
Ordos is a ghost city, built for a million people but inhabited by a mere few thousand. We could easily sink into a discussion about the waste of such a place, with its wealth of natural resources and packed public infrastructure, especially when we consider its location, a region of Northern China struggling with water [...]
October 17, 2012
covanaut
ASIA, SKATEBOARD, TRAVEL, VIDEO
Last year the guys at Ambition Snowskates dropped their team movie which left a lot of jaws on the floor. Generally, skateboarders and snowboarders are hard pushed to admit that an offshoot mongrel of their sport is in anyway good, yet alone something they may themselves enjoy. However, the guys at Ambition have managed to [...]
October 16, 2012
covanaut
SKATEBOARD, SNOWBOARD, VIDEO