Naysayer Skateboards is an up and coming skateboard company on the East Coast. Eby Ghafarian is the founder. He’s super cool. I had a chance to ask him a few questions. Read the interview below then go buy some Naysayer Skateboards. Skatemodo: How did Naysayer come about? Naysayer: Naysayer has been a long time coming. [...]

The Foundation Team is tearing up North Carolina right now, and team manager, Mike Sinclair was nice enough to answer my questions at 1:30 in the morning. Skatemodo: Who’s on the tour? Mike Sinclair: Sierra Fellers, Gareth Stehr, Angel Ramierz, David Reyes, Nick Merlino and Abdias Rivera. Skatemodo: Where are you guys headed to next? [...]

Active asked Chris Cole questions from an iphone… the results are somewhat interesting. The bombshell was that Chris Cole tried Wallenberg 68 times! If you don’t know what Wallenberg is, check out the second video below (It’s a contest that Thrasher puts on). It’s pretty gnarly. Other interesting parts of the interview: He graduated from [...]

I had the pleasure of seeing Collin Provost rip up our Durham skate park a week or so ago. Seems like a nice kid, and he’s definitely a ripper. ESPN beat me to the punch and managed to get an interview with him while he was here in North Carolina. You can see the original [...]

Jamie Thomas joined a new clothing company called Insight. It’s the right move for insight to get him on the team… he’s got the steez. They’re going to post a short video on the Insight website on Friday the 13th. No word yet if it is going to be a horror flick, or just a [...]

The Berrics (Steve Berra) interviewed Vinnie Ponte (of 90′s skateboarding fame and fortune). It was interesting to see what skateboarders do after their moment in the spotlight… It’s not like skateboarding prepares you for the real world… heck, you can’t even claim that it teaches you teamwork like little league soccer does. But Vinnie obviously [...]

Skatemodo.com got a chance to sit down the owner of Ujamaa Boardhouse here in Durham NC (my home town) 2 days before the big grand opening of the new Durham Skatepark. Nik has been highly involved in the creation of the park, so I thought it would interesting to talk with him. They (Ujamaa Boardshop) [...]

I find Ed Templeton super interesting. His company Toy Machine consistently puts out rad graphics. Their marketing campaign has changed very little over the years, but it still manages to be fresh. If you look at a Toy Machine ad from 10 years ago, it pretty much looks the same as the ads now… except [...]