Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To talk about the history of longboarding is to talk about the origins of surfing as a whole. Ancient Polynesian cultures rode ...

Emily Himmelwright can make it from her dorm room to the academic side of campus in five minutes if she rides her longboard, saving her more than 10 minutes if she were to walk to class instead.

TOWSON, Md. -- The sun still has a few fingers in the sky when Scott Frias arrives at the Towson garage. He claps hands with others, who share skating videos on laptops and phones, or adjust the ...

Longboarding has had to struggle for its moment in the sun since its richer cousin of shortboarding was incepted back in the late ‘60s. The first men’s Longboard World Champion was crowned in 1987 and ...

It WAS the lure of the snow that drew Jia Yee to longboard skateboarding almost two years ago. The UCLA biology student loved the feeling of schussing down a mountain on a snowboard -- but she was ...

Always listen to your mother. And to your husband. And friends. And especially to your "gut." Really, just listen to anyone who knows you well enough to know better - more on this in a bit. After I ...

Longer than a skateboard and loosely akin to a surfboard with wheels, the longboard is an increasingly popular transportation choice for students on campuses nationwide. A number of recent student ...

The dangers of longboarding in Ohio State parking garages include possible injury, citation by Transportation and Parking Services, or even arrest by OSU police. But those perils aren’t enough to keep ...

Tyler Schrodt wanted to build and sell longboards but had one problem—he didn’t know how to make them. Evan McCool knew how to make longboards, but he didn’t have the business experience to sell them.

The epicenter of South Sound longboarding looks like the bedroom of a kid whose mom gave him a can of spray paint and free rein to redecorate. The walls of the small Nalley Valley warehouse are ...