Back in the day it seemed we were always seeing Sean Sheffey on his bike, skateboard strapped to his backpack, pedaling up and down Coast Highway on his way to and from work. Now, according to a story in the Deseret News, Sheffey has joined The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. . . aka The Church, aka The Mormons.
In 2023, Sheffey was resting at the skate park in Encinitas, California, when two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints approached him and asked if they could pray with him. . . “I was missing a lot of my prayers and Bible study for some years then. It was just absent in my life by choice, and I thought at that point I had room to welcome God and religion back in my life,” Sheffey said.
In 2024 he joined the Church officially. And it seems like things are going well. And that’s great. For the rest of the story, click the link.
The San Bernardino Sun has a great catchup profile of pool dog Tristan Rennie. When not skating he works for the fire department in Running Springs, California.
So five years ago, the new dad began studying. He took online fire science classes and went through EMT school, started taking shifts in an ambulance as he worked his way toward a firefighting position. . . When he applied for a position at the Running Springs Fire Department, he presented a pretty unique resume: “I just put: ‘Athlete for Rockstar Energy drink,’” said Rennie, a Carter High School product. He, of course, highlighted all that went with that, that he’d managed his travel and scheduling, the physical training and so forth.
Glad everything is going well. Click the link for the rest.
This great clip should answer most of your questions about what Ed Templeton is up to lately. Wires Crossed, right? And if not, then this interview with Jamie Thomas definitely will.
Pin-up Magazine sits down with pro skater Alexis Sablone to discuss the intersection of skateboarding and architecture and life.
A competitor in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Sablone knows better than anyone the skater’s intimate relationship with the built environment, which results in a more finely-tuned understanding of the small details of certain buildings or streets than even the architects or planners who designed them could claim. Like all skateboarders, Sablone — who once rode the Guggenheim’s iconic spiral, a challenge in itself given the slope and run of the unending ramp — values those smaller, “unassuming blips in the everyday landscape,” like “a street median, a gap in the sidewalk, a fire hydrant on top of a hill.”
Seems we’re not the only ones spending our golden years auctioning off the detritus from our action sporting youth. Tony Hawk has joined with Julien Actions to sell the board he rode at the 1999 San Francisco X Games. You know, the one where he did the 900 for the first time in competition? The comp we left early because we knew he’d never make it. Here’s how the stuff is described:
This first-to-market “The 900 Collection” features the original 1999 X Games “900” Skateboard. This is more than just a deck; it’s the very board, the Birdhouse “Falcon 2” outfitted with Fury brand trucks and unmarked wheels, that Tony Hawk rode into legend during his historic performance at the 1999 X Games in San Francisco.
But that’s not all. The collection also includes the sweaty helmet Tony wore. His stinky knee pads. The blown out Adio shoes, and his X Games athlete laminates. The board is expected to go for between $500,000 and $700,000 making it the most expensive skateboard ever. Reportedly “a portion” of the proceeds from the auction will go to The Skatepark Project. If you’d like to get in on the bidding, please click the link to register.
The live auction goes down September 23, 2025 at 10 AM Pacific Time.
We asked Apple’s Image PlaygroundAI to create a “skateboard” for us. It delivered something straight out of a PacSun catalog circa 2009. Our AI future certainly looks bright, doesn’t it?
Skateboarders, those habitual arbiters of style, always seem to make the coolest stuff, especially when it comes to retail. So, thanks to coffee industry website Sprudge, here are some of the best caffeine filling stations in the skateboarding world (pictured above, Boise, Idaho’s Push & Pour).
Coffee shop/skate shop hybrids are still relatively rare, but they cater to their local communities of skaters and ramp watchers, and they’re showing the world that serious coffee is a great fit for skating culture. I wish there were a hundred of these places to report on, but there’s not—at least not yet. Instead, I took a look around to learn more about seven cafes across the United States serving coffee-loving skaters, offering espressos with a side of grip tape and a helmet.
