Concrete Wave Articles

Silverfish Longboarding's 2011 Board Guide.  Graphics and basic description of longboard and slalom skateboard types, along with general setups common to each discipline.

Check out this massive PDF of news, items, weirdness too strange for the main pages and more, all from the Holiday '08 edition of skateboarding's Cosmo... Concrete Wave.

What makes a good helmet? What features should customers look for? Sean Methven, Manager, Pro-tec’s Skate Line Fit, safety, and style. Make sure the helmet fits properly; this will ensure the helmet will stay in place during a fall. Make sure the helmet you’re buying meets the safety requirements for the intended application. The more comfortable you are with the look of the helmet, the more inclined you’ll be to wear it.

When I was asked to write about speed wobbles for the magazine, it made me realize that while I had spent the better part of my life on a skateboard, I didn’t really know that much about the wobs. Sure, we all have our stories, complete with tales of how we survived them. And from these we’ve created all kinds of homespun theories, many of which seem to contradict each other. One skater I asked said he crouches down and touches the nose of his board to gain control during wobble onset; another said not to crouch or make any drastic body movements. So how do we know what is good advice and what is fiction? I decided to explore the wobble phenomenon from two perspectives, alternating between the scientific and the experiential, in hopes that between the two a better understanding of wobbles would emerge

Full-Size cover from the Winter '08 issue, featuring the art of Jim Philips.