INSIDE THE NEW CONVERSE CONS SKATEBOARDING VIDEO BY IZRAYL BRINSDON FEATURING COREY YOUNG, NOAH SMITH, JEDD MCKENZIE, REEF CONDON, ASTRO MARTY, PAT ROBERTS, NATHAN JACKSON AND LOUIE DODD. In The Gutter Looking At Stars is the first Australian Convers

KIERAN WOOLLEY BECAME A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN SKATEBOARDING BACK IN 2021. THAT WAS THE YEAR HE HAD A NEW GEN IN THE MAG, CAME FIFTH IN THE OLYMPICS AND WENT VIRAL FOR KNOCKING A CAMERAMAN OVER ON LIVE TV. Since then, Kieran has established himself as muc

The first time I ever met Reef, he was 12 years old, wearing a pair of baby pink Vans and trying to back-three the threeblock at Melbourne’s City Park. He was younger and so much better at skateboarding than me and all of my friends. He ended up dest

Al Boglio is the 2024 inductee into the Slam Hall of Fame, joining a long and distinguished list of Australian skateboarding legends. Al’s effortless style and raw talent put him on Slam’s list of the 25 most influential Australian skateboarders in 2

New Balance Numeric’s highly anticipated video High Noon recently premiered at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington. It was a big evening of celebrations for the NB# crew, who spent a year in the streets stacking footage for their most recent production.

Jedd McKenzie was lying in a bed in Oceanside, California, when he found out that he had won the New Gen of the Year award for 2024. He’d travelled to Cali with Kieran Woolley and Ethan Copeland, and their plan was pretty simple: skate every day for

When Hayley Wilson rocked up to The Lord Newry in Fitzroy North for a casual dinner in late January, she had no idea what she was walking into. Dressed in basketball shorts and a hoody, she was under the impression that she was there for a veggie bur

When you read Slam,you can feel the love and care that’s put into the mag, from the imagery and the layout to the words and the tone. It’s just as well, really, ’cos if this mag was anything less than quality, it wouldn’t still be thriving in this wa

The striking stainless-steel sculpture on our cover stands around eightmetres high, 12-metres wide, and it was fabricated from 32 kilometres of marine-grade rod and tube. The title of the public sculpture is “Pipedreams”, and it’s a dream spot for an

“Remember, this is a work trip” These were the words that rang out as we piled onto our light aircraft in Melbourne, bound for North West Tasmania for what wasn’t really supposed to be a skate trip. We’d been excitedly mapping out potential spots, tr

In 2022, Tony Hawk took a heavy slam and broke his femur. Now in his mid-50s, that could easily have been a career-ender, but Tony came back in December 2023 with an incredible video part: Tapes You Leave Behind. Upon its release, Tony said this was

Rob Pace got his first Slam cover in the Winter of 2017, grinding a huge triple set kinked rail in the rain. The kinks were steep, and the landing area, as seen in the bottom of the photo, was a puddle. In Rob’s first interview, he talked about how m

AGE: 16 LIVES: Cronulla, NSW RIDES FOR: Vans, RVCA, Santa Cruz, Independent, Boardworld What's happening, Jett? Were you at school today? Yeah, I was at school, Cronulla High. Not much is happening there. I'm in year 11 at school. Actually, I've just

Jason Ellis is one of Australia's great vert skaters, a professional fighter, a comedian and co-host of the.Hawk Vs Wolf podcast with his close friend Tony Hawk. At 52 years old, Ellis recently landed a 540 for the first time in a long time. Greg Ste

Jay Runciman first heard about the West End Brewery being demolished from a mate who sent a few photos of these five-to six-metre-high barrels on their sides. He got told to get in quick because they'd be gone within the week. Jay and I rocked up to

Recently, I was talking to my eight-year-old daughter about the concept of time. I asked her, “Does the past exist?” And she replied, “Yes”. I said, “Well, where is it?” She pondered for a moment, and then, in a lightbulb moment, she was quick to qui

HODDLA JACK O'GRADY JACK O'GRADY SIMON ZUZIC SIMON ZUZIC SIMON ZUZIC We talked about taking the Hoddle crew to LA for so long, and at some point, we just had to do it. But organising this trip was no easy task. Half the team was on the move over in E

With a video deadline in sight and a year of going hard in the streets under our belts, it was time to cross the ditch. We figured we'd bring a few of the crew over to link up with the NZ team and bring the Australian New Balance Numeric video projec

Monster Energy sure as shit didn't call this the “Super Tour” for no reason. They pulled out all the heavies for a two-week slaughter fest on Sydney and Melbourne's spots. It was a massive crew consisting of some of skateboarding's biggest names, inc

Hayley Wilson describes herself as a retired comp-skater, who recently made a short comeback, only to retire again at age 22. Lucky for us, in no way does this mean that we aren't seeing her skating anymore. After recently getting on Real Skateboards

AGE: 16 LIVES: Central Coast, NSW SPONSORS: DC Shoes [flow], Boardworld