Skateboard Magazines
411 Video Magazine
A new approach to magazines -- 411VM offers periodic videos on DVD with tips, interviews and more. It's the perfect way to stay up to date, learn, and be entertained. The issues do cost quite a bit, but are usualy worth it.
Adrenalin
Focused on Surf, Skate, Snow and Hawaii, Adrenalin is a thick magazine packed with interesting articles, photos and news. If you are looking for something to read, and not simply pages of glossy adds and photos, try Adrenalin.
Automatic
Automatic is a glossy covered paper magazine, with about half color and half black and white. Automatic is filled with edgy articles and photos featuring skate culture with an underground feel.
Concrete Wave
"100% Skateboarding", Concrete Wave magazine seeks to be unique from all other skateboarding magazines. They cover all areas of skateboarding, from mainstream to the innovative, from old school to futuristic. If you want a fresh look at skating, try Concrete Wave.
Kingpin / skateboarding europa
A European skateboarding magazine, Kingpin is available in French, Spanish, English and German. You would think that would limit thier writing, but this magazine is full of articles about the European skate scene. Part of ASM.
Paying in Pain
A smaller, underground-feeling paper mag (mostly in black and white, with some color pages), Paying in Pain is a lot more impressive than it looks. Find articles and editorials about mainstream skateboarding.
sbc Skateboard
A great Canadian skateboard magazine, with an incredible online library of articles and photos, including a Canadian skatepark listing. This is a thick skate mag full of great info and photos.
Skate Park Guide
This is an entire magazine, published yearly, that shows readers all about the skateparks of California. It's very well made and worth checking out - unless you are from somewhere besides Cali. In that case, never mind.
Skateboarder Magazine
The first skate magazine ever published, Skateboarder has a long history of providing great photos and articles about skate culture. Skateboarder offers a free trial issue to see what you think.
Slap
An affordable mainline skateboarding magazine, with great photos and articles. Slap is a fun, loud magazine that will entertain you.
the Skateboard Mag
The Skateboard Mag presents photos, articles and design all focused on skateboard culture. The magazine has its own clean, strong style that makes it fun to read.
Thrasher
One of the biggest and the baddest, Thrasher has been a solid source for skateboarding news, culture and entertainment for years. The Thrasher website is also full of great skate info, though not the prettiest to navigate.
Transworld Skateboarding
Transworld is huge, offering magazines in piles of sports and piles of countries every month. Transworld holds the line as one of the strongest mainline skateboarding magazines available.