"It's basically a dynamically balanced skateboard, " said Chris Borroni-Bird, GM's director of advanced technology vehicle concepts.
These characters relax by staging skateboard races around a maze of cubicles in their office.
There's no official listing of skateboard key clubs, since being hidden is sort of the point.
An electric guitar and skateboard hang on the walls of the more casual Reaction room.
Even in his 80s, this book reports, he would occasionally hop onto his grandson's skateboard.
The field has been replaced by various exotic and cartoony settings like a skateboard park or outer space.
Even during those dark years, I never stopped riding my skateboard and never stopped progressing as a skater.
The six-year-old had been playing on a skateboard on the family's driveway when she was hit by the vehicle.
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As the market expands, even original skateboard companies have to tread carefully.
At Astoria Park, you'll find a skateboard park, jogging track and waterfront paths, along with the city's largest outdoor swimming pool.
Next up is Sonic, in a striped version that performs tricks like a skateboard as it careens through a warehouse district.
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"It's not at all about whether the character has on a baseball cap, rides a skateboard or uses hip language, " explains Hardison.
At 10, 500 feet, the ride felt like a skateboard over railroad tracks.
"It's kind of for the people who made it happen, " says Kevin Wilkins, a DonutHill key holder and editor of The Skateboard Mag.
We've all seen little boys shoot baskets for six hours straight, or practice that same dumb skateboard trick 400 times in a row.
The chassis, which GM calls the "skateboard, " is supposed to last for decades, and it can put on different bodies like they were clothes.
"The Spliff is a unique design that we created to be a hybrid between a longboard and a regular skateboard, " says Ryan Daughtridge, Bustin Boards' founder.
The project, known as IntoOutdoors, combines traditional stores with outdoor attractions such as two fishing lakes, a cycle track for casual riders and a skateboard park.
On the plane to America from India in 1990, he made a to-do list: learn to skateboard and bungee-jump, go on road trips, hang out with girls.
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"It is a study of the evolution of skateboard art through the actual art itself and the technology used to apply the art on the skateboard, " he said.
The video also emphasizes the perks and casual vibe of working at a deep-pocketed tech company, where employees get free food, work barefoot and skateboard around the office.
At a foot wide and 35 to 40 inches long, this "sidewalk surfer" is technically a longboard a skateboard variation that's more akin to a surfboard in look and ride.
He perfected the art of buttboarding sitting on his skateboard and careering down hills with no helmet and no brakes and staged rock-throwing wars with other shiftless kids in empty lots.
We also attached the camera to a skateboard by using one of the elastic straps pulled tight around it and clipping the camera in with one of its mounts.
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The conversation gave Vaught an idea: to create an art exhibit featuring more than 200 skateboard "decks" -- the board where the artwork is applied -- from eight artists.
When he returned from the tour, Keith Hufnagel, founder and owner of the streetwear firm HUF, hired him to design skateboard graphic at his shop in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.
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"This is kind of like the flying skateboard, " said Jared Fliesler, a general partner at venture capital firm Matrix Partners, referencing the still-not-here hoverboards from the "Back to the Future" trilogy.
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