Introducing Frontside360

When Bob Loftin (TexasLongboader, The Freestyle Podcast, and Bob's Trick Tips) asked me to start up a longboarding website with him, the decision was easy to make. Of course I would start up a longboarding website with him! Bob was an influence on my skateboarding long before we first spoke to one another. I loved Bob's Trick Tips and Texas Longboarder when they were around. The Freestyle Podcast, in recent years, has become required listening since I started  dipping my toes into the freestyle world.

This website is different from our respective current projects. Luchaskate has, of course, gone through several changes over the last seven years. It started off as an outlet for me to write my skate story (when it was called Meat and Two). It grew to be about the Memphis skate scene (The Four-Eyed Luchador). It then grew to be a blog and zine (Luchaskate proper). 

Luchaskate then, of course, died. I killed it off for several reasons, but one important reason was that Luchaskate no longer reflected who I was as a skateboarder.  After another project, I brought the Luchaskate name back, but now, instead of having a 'zine, podcast, and Facebook group, it is me writing about my skatelife just like it had started.

And Luchaskate will stay exactly that: me writing about my skateboarding. It will continue to be my daily struggles with skating and my thoughts on skateboarding as a whole. Frontside360, on the other hand, is my opportunity to riff on what is posted by another skater, and write about other skateboarders. I'm trying my best to separate my skating to here and other people's skating to there.

We are also recording a weekly podcast where we discuss longboard skating. They are short, mini-casts. We're attempting to keep them to 10 minutes long, but we nearly doubled that on the second episode.

​Check it out, here.

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