Footage from 8 February 2012 at Stoner Plaza.

Isla Vista is planning to build a real skatepark, but in the meantime the locals have this temporary place to skate.

Finally! The first skate session of my vagabond tour of California and also the first session of the new year.

Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they break on you?

Wait…what kind of skating?

I did a few of my manual lines. I did a 360 flip. I did one nose manual.

Here’s the talk I gave at TEDxEastsidePrep: “Can Skateboarding Save Our Schools?” I also highly recommend watching Shawn Cornally‘s talk “Pointslessness: The Future of Education Without Coercion or Toy Economies” which overlapped with many of the ideas in my talk but from a completely different perspective.

They Might Be Giants posted one of my old skate videos on their Facebook page?

The cover story of this week’s Chicago Reader is about…me? After reading the article, I thought the sections about Dr. Richard “Pip” Potter needed clarification, so here’s my brief response.