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Phenomenal 6-yo Skateboarder Performs in Pink Party Dress and Leopard Print Helmet

What’s 6 years old, zips through the air with gravity-defying ease, and wears a pink princess dress with her crash helmet? Australian skateboarding phenomenon...

11-Year-old Skateboarder Makes History From Quarantine By Landing World’s First 1080-Degree Turn

Twenty years after Tony Hawk became the first person to land a 900-degree turn, Gui Khury has become the first person to land a 1080-degree turn.

Girls in War Zone Find Their Power On Skateboards; Documentary About Them Takes Home the Oscar (Watch)

Thousands of at-risk youth—particularly girls—around the world have been introduced to skateboarding as a means of teaching them leadership and education.

Need a Smile? Here’s a Video of a Man Walking Briskly Through NYC With His Dog on a Skateboard

You've heard of New Yorkers taking their pets for walks in baby strollers? This gnarly pup is touring the town balanced upon his own...

Why This Policeman Skateboards With Teens While On Patrol

Officer Craig Hanaumi may be considered the coolest cop in town, but he insists that he is just doing his job.

Heartbroken Artist Makes Skateboard Exhibit as Exercise in Gratitude and Charity

In the careers of skateboarders, one of the biggest signs that they’ve “made it” is when they start to get sponsored. When a skater...

Mom Posts Letter to Skateboarder Who Showed Big Heart Despite Pals

A six-year-old girl got a private lesson in skateboarding, while her mother got a lesson in not judging others. Jeanean Thomas was thrown for a...
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Soft Landing: Skateboarders Add Floating Ramp to Lake Tahoe (WATCH)

How do skateboarders learn to do those aerial flips without breaking their backs? Well, now they can use the ramp built by Bob Burnquist...

Israeli Turtle Gets Skateboard to Replace Legs

Officials in a Jerusalem zoo have fitted a 55-pound spurred tortoise with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs. The 10-year-old ...

Dude, I’m Not Too Old to Skateboard

At 40, he is still as intense a skateboarding enthusiast as ever. "He started skating in the 1970s, when skateboarding was first popular, and...

Good News in History, September 3

60 years ago today, the Wilderness Act was signed into law. Written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society, it has been used to...

Good News in History, July 27

1,250 years ago today, the first Patriarch of the Shingon Sect—one of the most important in Japanese Buddhism was born. Born Saeki no Mao,...

Good News in History, June 27

25 years ago today, skateboarder Tony Hawk became the first person ever to land the 900, or two-and-a-half full rotations in the air on...

Good News in History, May 12

565 years ago today, Jodhpur, the "Sun City," the "Blue City," was founded amid the stark lands of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India....

Good News in History, May 6

70 years ago today Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes—significant because...

For World Happiness Day, Finland Wants to Bring 5 Winners to World’s Happiest Country–Crowned 7 Years in a Row

Today, for the seventh year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world by the annual United Nations World...

If Replicated, New Physics Discovery Could Grant Levitation to Any Device via Ambient Pressure Magnetics

If a new discovery published by South Korean physicists on a pre-print server is proven through replication, it could be one of the most...

Abandoned Supermarket Turned into An Indoor Skatepark for the Community

Open to skateboarders, BMXers, scooter riders, and rollerbladers, an abandoned Sainsbury's in the UK has become a community skatepark. The Pitt Street skatepark in Portsmouth,...

How Tony Hawk Joined an Apache Pro Skater to Bring New Skate Park to Reservation

When an Apache man moved to a new town and found it needed a skatepark, he and the tribe petitioned skating legend Tony Hawk...

Adventurous Play Helps Boosts Children’s Mental Health, Research Says

Children who spend more time playing adventurously have lower symptoms of anxiety and depression, and were happier over the first Covid-19 lockdown, according to...