Skate News

Volcom is bringing back this summer its mini festivals inspired by the Volcom Garden venue concept in Austin, Texas.

Tim Bijsterveld Slam at the Volcom Garden Experience 2019 - Pier15 Skatepark, Breda.

12 Jun 2022   |  

14 qualification events, 1 world final: your future starts here!! The Black Yeti is coming back on board and he is ready to announce the World Rookie Tour Skateboarding 2022! A lot of spectacular events around Europe and Asia, to crown the World Rookie Skateboard Champion.

2 Jun 2022   |  

What a great skate weekend for the Blue Tomato Best Foot Forward Tour!

30 May 2022   |  

AURÉLIEN GIRAUD TAKES THE WIN!

29 May 2022   |  

This Friday the Women's Final & Men's Semi-finals have taken place.

28 May 2022   |  

18 Skateboard, BMX and Moto X Disciplines Revealed - New “SloanYard” venue and MegaPark discipline join “Slayground” and CATF events - 15.5 Hours of Competition on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC; All Competitions Streaming Live on ESPN+

27 May 2022   |  

After a successful start of the tour in Vienna, the second Best Foot Forward Europe tour stop in Maribor was also a full success!

17 May 2022   |  

As there can be no FISE Montpellier without Skateboard, the supreme discipline of urban sports will be part of the festival once again for its 25th anniversary, both in Street and in Spine Ramp.

The world's biggest action sport festival returns!

9 May 2022   |  

World Skate are glad to announce the International Olympic Committee qualification system rules for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

5 May 2022   |  

After a successful tour last year, we kicked off the Best Foot Forward 2022 summer together with you!

3 May 2022   |  

Plus Monster Energy Men’s Skateboard Street contest sees a Japanese Podium Sweep with Yuto Horigome holding onto the form he had in the qualifiers. The final day of X Games Chiba 2022 Presented by Yogibo featured Men’s Skateboard Park, Women’s Skateboard Street and Monster Energy Men’s Street in front of a packed house. Fans can relive all the action from the inaugural X Games Chiba event via two hours of event recap coverage on ABC as part of the World of X Games series on May 14 and 21 from 2 – 3 p.m. ET.

Rayssa Leal dominated the Women’s Skateboard Street competition from the start.

25 Apr 2022   |  

X Games Chiba 2022 Presented by Yogibo continued today with a full house and second day of sunshine. Saturday saw the Men’s Skateboard Street Elimination, Vert Best Trick, Women’s Skateboard Park, BMX Park, Moto X Best Whip and BMX Street. The first-ever X Games event in Japan, all competitions can be streamed live via the ESPN App and @XGames YouTube throughout the weekend.

Sakura Yosozuma from Iwade City, Wakayama, has earned her first X Games gold.

23 Apr 2022   |  

The inaugural X Games Chiba 2022 Presented by Yogibo began April 22 with four eliminations and the Skateboard Vert and BMX Flatland final competitions. The first-ever X Games event in Japan, all competitions can be streamed live via the ESPN App and @XGames YouTube throughout the weekend.

Jimmy Wilkins on his way to victory in Skateboard Vert.

22 Apr 2022   |  

Tournée Général went down in Belgium in October 2021 and looks epic! Feast your eyes on the clip below...

The Tournée Général Team!

14 Apr 2022   |  

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is launching a new four-sport Olympic qualifier series for Paris 2024. This is an Olympic Agenda 2020+5 project, which was presented today to the IOC Executive Board. The new IOC-led Olympic qualifier series will include four sports – BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing.

2 Apr 2022   |  

More than 100 World-Class Athletes Set to Compete April 22 - 24 at ZOZOMARINE STADIUM

1 Mar 2022   |  

Hosting the world's largest urban sports gathering for 25 years, the City of Montpellier, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole and the Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée Region will once again beat to the festival rhythm from May 25 to 29, 2022. After two years of adaptation, this comeback prompted a dedicated teaser video to celebrate the values at the heart of this iconic event.

25 Feb 2022   |  

The International Olympic Committee has announced that the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 will see skateboarding become a fully-fledged permanent Olympic sport.

Sky Brown (GBR) earned Women's Park Bronze at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Pictured during Tokyo 2020 at Ariake Urban Sports Park, Tokyo, Japan, August, 2021.

8 Feb 2022   |  

Simple Session 22 will be back in Tallinn, Estonia, on June 11-12, 2022 with another big summertime festival and an all-around good time! The Simple Session series will host an exciting contest in the Põhjala Factory district – an old rubber factory turned into a cultural hub will serve as a thrilling location for the event.

20 Jan 2022   |  

If 2021 was an emblematic year for Skate, with the sport entering the Olympic Games and a debut with three silver medals for Brazil, the year 2022 is promising. A calendar full of competitions is already on the scene next week, with the first stage of the STU National, in Criciúma (SC). The event takes place between January 13th and 23rd, at Parque Municipal Prefeito Altair Guidi, one of the most modern places in the country for skateboarding.

Pictured: Pedro Barros.

10 Jan 2022   |  

X Games, the world’s premier action sports event, announced today that a summer edition of the event will take place in Japan for the first time ever. X Games has reached an agreement with X Games Japan Organizing Committee, a consortium led by Japanese event production company Shin So Sha in conjunction with the City of Chiba, to collaborate on X Games Chiba 2022, which is scheduled to take place April 22-24, 2022. The event will feature Skateboard, BMX and Moto X competitions over three days at ZOZOMARINE STADIUM.

Pictured: Sakura Yosozumi (JPN) competing in Women’s Skateboard Park during X Games Minneapolis 2019, at U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 2, 2019.

10 Dec 2021   |  

From the heart of the Alps, Innsbruck, Austria, hosted the 2021 edition of the World Rookie Skateboard Finals and welcomed 70 skateboarders from 17 different nations, pre-selected through a series of 10 WRT qualifying events across the Europe and Japan. * Raimu Sasaki (JPN) wins the title of 2021 World Rookie Skateboard Male Champion & his brother Raimu Sasaki (JPN) is the 2021 World Grom Skateboard Male Champion! * Aoi Ishimaru (JPN) grabs the 2021 World Rookie Skateboard Female Champion title & Liv Broder (SUI) earns the tile of 2021 World Grom Skateboard Female Champion * Relive the finals - watch the replay of live broadcast on YouTube that was with pleasure delivered by the Boardriding.com team * Don't miss the links to the full photo-gallery and Ranking, and check out the highlights video!

Rookie Girls podium at the 2021 World Rookie Skate Finals at Skatehalle Innsbruck, Austria, October 3, L-R: 2nd Lena Muller (SUI), 1st Aoi Ishimaru (JPN) & 3rd Alisa Fessl (AUT). Big congratulations! Cover picture: Raimu Sasaki (JPN) in action during the 2021 WRT Skate Finals, about to become the 2021 World Rookie Skateboard Champ!

7 Oct 2021   |