Be a founder of The Skateboarder’s Journal

We here at skatefurther are super stoked about The Skateboarder’s Journal. ‘Lives on Board’ was a amazing book (buy it here) with loads of truly inspiring stories about skating in all its forms. There was a great section about distance skating and the promo video for ‘Be a founder of The Skateboarder’s Journal‘ features a few noteworthy distance skaters. Skatefurther’s very own Nat (wafflesole) is in there a couple of times, as is Adam Colton from his trip across the USA and Sheldon Lessard from his trip across NZ with Nat and Adam back in 2008. Watch out for the Skate Further tattoo.

The founders of The Skateboarder’s Journal have long hoped to see the full spectrum of skateboarding covered with greater depth, balance, intelligence, and perspective. After years of talking and dreaming, we decided to create a magazine that does just that.

Our vision is this: to respect and honor skateboard history, both the neglected aspects and the over-exposed elements, while supporting the evolution of all skateboarding disciplines as entities unto themselves – with individual subcultures that need not be chained to Old School nostalgia, despite the romantic allure of bygone Golden days.

You will find comparatively few advertisements in TSJ. Our goal is to be more reader-supported than advertiser-dependent. With fewer ads, we can devote more pages to in-depth articles about skateboarding topics that receive little attention in mainstream magazines.

You will see interviews/features with skateboarders from all eras and all disciplines: street, vert, longboard, racing, freestyle and just plain old skating. In this second decade of this new century, all-around skateboarding is once again enjoying a renaissance, just as it did in the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, Approaches that were considered “alternative” for the last twenty years – such as longboarding, slalom, downhill, all-purpose cruising, and flatland freestyle – are now more readily accepted. TSJ will treat all of these time-honored aspects of skateboarding with the respect they deserve.

The Skateboarder’s Journal will delve into all dimensions of skateboarding – culture, history, art, travel, technology and the future. We will also bring you photography from the world’s best skate photographers.Content is foremost. It will be presented in a clean, classic format that focuses your attention on what’s important, not on indulgent graphic design.

Readers will be able to access TSJ from their iPad, iPhone, other Internet-enabled mobile device, laptop, or desktop computer. Our goal is to make TSJ available to you no matter where you are, or where you may be going.