This year’s Adjacent event takes place July 24 to 26 in Portland, OR and will feature a weekend full of panels, presentations, jams, trivia, shows and skating.
In our first collab post with ‘The War Report’, Jamie breaks down the slow impact 2026 fits front to back.
Our Top 5 videos of 2025 reflects votes from AB contributors (and a few friends) across the NW for their five favorite skate videos of the year.
Cal Skate has managed to stay in business for fifty years, surviving the dot-com bubble, 2008 recession, and COVID. Now, Howard Weinder, the founder of the shop, is passing ownership to Chris Nukula, employee and manager of the shop.
In early 2025 we returned to Tempe, AZ for the 3rd annual Slow Impact.
Natalie talks about her new book and the importance of Antisocial and skateshop in general.
A panel discussion with the NW professional skateboarders Silas Baxter-Neal, Jasper Dohrs, Jessie Van and Aaron Herrington.
A panel discussion with the NW skate filmers Ian Ostrowski, Shane Auckland, Jon Colyer and Adam Robo.
Our friend Natalie Porter just launched her new book Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders which is a deep dive into the women and non-binary skaters who pushed through a hostile industry and built their own lanes in skateboarding
A presentation on ‘Redefining Skateparks’ by Portland based Landscape Architect Taj Hanson featuring a guest appearance by 'The Courts' founder Nicholas Pelster.
Guest contributor Cole Somers argues for liberating Portland’s ‘Half Circle’ in his first article on the site.
A panel discussion with the people behind the NW skate brands Genesis, Space Program, Manik and Bacon.
In this ‘Subjective’ interview with chat with Bailey Stewart, a Portland based artist and designer.
As many of you who keep up with AB know, this thing is primarily dedicated to covering the skateboarding that comes out of the Northwest, which may leave some of you curious as to why tf we’re posting the Sci-Fi video
This summer, we’re launching an annual event called Adjacent, a weekend long gathering celebrating skateboarding in the Northwest. The plan is for the event to rotate to a new NW city each year, but we’re kicking it all off in Portland, July 25th to 27th.
I had the pleasure of being invited onto the Mostly Skateboarding podcast to chat with Templeton and Patrick about the Adjacent event we’re hosting in Portland July 25-27th 2025.
We stopped into Fos’ Art Show in Portland on Go Skate Day 2025 to check out his art and the new collab with Heroin x Tactics.
Come skate in our annual ‘S Ledgends’ jam in Tacoma at Thea’s Park on July 12th.
Lucas Beaufort brought his ‘Heartsy’ Tour to Seattle for a jam at the Courts with Asics & 35th North
We finally decided to make a small run of AB hats and added a shop to the site so you can grab one.
A new skate video out of Tacoma featuring Tom Brittain, Edgar Titchenal, Spenser Carpenter, Dave Waite, CJ Cabiles, Dane Ichimura, Daniel Angulo, Brandon Barber, Marcus Holt, and more.
We caught up with James Alby to talk about his upcoming documentary Chimera, the intersection of skating and pottery, creative discipline, and finally settled how to pronounce “vase.”
In this ‘Subjective’ interview we chat with Jake Stoumbos, a portland based artist and designer.
In this interview we chat with Faith Doudna about growing up in Selah, WA, getting sponsored, filming video parts, making the move to Portland and who she’s inspired by.
In this Under Exposed interview we chat with Kyle Steneide, a NW raised and LA based videographer and video editor.
One Moto Cafe, located right by Willis Kimbel’s Rip’s Skate Shop, hosted an art show titled Various, displaying works from various skaters in Portland, Oregon. Some of the featured artists were Sebo Walker, Noah Smith, James Alby, Chet Childress, Joe Brook, and Tyler Bledsoe.
AB’s Top 5 Parts of 2024 revisits last year’s solo releases to pull back ‘em back from the abyss of the algorithms and celebrate our favorites. Bombing hills, crushing street gaps, technical precision, and solid combos earned Nile Gibbs’ GX1000 part the #1 spot for 2024, as voted by our contributors.
Dylan Clark has long been a standout in the Genesis crew, consistently capturing our attention with each new part he drops. This year, his Venture part solidified his place as a favorite among our contributors. Filmed and edited by Ryan Lee, this marks the first full Dylan part we've seen outside of the Genesis videos since Nolan Wilson's Get Down. Dylan's signature ‘we make it look it easy’ style, paired with Ryan and Ian's vision behind the Panasonics, makes this one of our Top 5 Parts of 2024.
