Emily Himmelwright can make it from her dorm room to the academic side of campus in five minutes if she rides her longboard, saving her more than 10 minutes if she were to walk to class instead.

Surfing is beholden to fluidity – from swell formation, to tides, to the actual act of riding a wave. But surfers, themselves, aren’t very fluid. In fact, we’re all pretty homogenous; we’re fiercely ...

To talk about the history of longboarding is to talk about the origins of surfing as a whole. Ancient Polynesian cultures rode boards that were thin, heavy and made from solid wood like koa. (Good ...