Endless Lines

“The archive of skateboarding is predominantly the various magazines which have promoted its development. […] First, they are an implicated part of the development of skateboarding, and are thus what historians call a primary source – unmediated by the distance of time and backward look of the historian. Second, although often highly intelligent in their articles and reports, particulary trough their self-deprecating demeanour, these magazines are not highly theorized. […] They are, then, a more reliable source for, say, a consideration of the body-centric production of space in the skatepark of the 1970s than would be had by asking an older skateboarder to recollect such events some twenty years after the event. Third, the skateboard magazines are highly illustrated with still and high-speed sequence photography. As such, this imagery as much as the written work provides ‘the nearest thing that we have to a historical record of what skateboarding is.“ Iain Borden, “Skateboarding, Spa