Like many of his peers, Steve Coletta started making surfboards because he had to. In 1967, the Shortboard Revolution was happening, but not necessarily accessible for every surfer. Steve didn’t want ...

The landscape of the Valley is an open invitation to the growing trend of longboarding. It is hard not to notice those slick surfboards-with-wheels cruisin' around the ASU campus and downtown Tempe.

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 ...