Skateboarding began in the United States around the 1940s, but the sport really began to take off in the 1970s when pioneering skaters began to ply their trades at the first skate parks. It was at ...

4. Nike SB - Day One. Nike SB knows a thing or two about making great skateboarding shoes, and the Nike SB Day One is a skate shoe made with your little ripper in mind.

When it comes to choosing a pair of skate shoes, you've got a ton of choices: the brand, the color, high top, low top, mid top, or slip-on, materials (leather, suede, canvas, nubuck), but most ...

4. One Nine 7. Another one straight from the golden era of the late '90s/early '00s skateboarding, éS unearthed some serious gold when they brought these back.

Now, the brand’s first official skate shoe is getting a minimalist redux in the Stone Island Marina x New Balance Numeric 272. And it might be one of New Balance’s best-looking shoes ever. The 272’s ...

Puffy, pricey, and strangely perfect for the moment, the $455 ERLs are billed as skateboard shoes — but maybe don’t try to skate in them.

Unlike your typical skate shoe, however, the 993 looks more like a lifestyle trainer, taking design cues from New Balance’s storied 99x series. Of particular note is the specific soft-suede paneling ...

This 16-year-old Olympic skateboard medalist went from holey shoes to holy shoe deal! : Goats and Soda Rayssa Leal of Team Brazil won a bronze medal in Paris -- following up on her silver medal in ...