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How skateboarding and punk combined to create a radical, rebellious movement

Don’t forget the streets — The sport’s intersectional romance with subcultures and their music can be a complicated maze. The deeper into the labyrinth, the more inextricable the two forces appear to be.

  • Huck 82: The Music Issue
  • Cullen Poythress
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In photos: The UK’s first trail-running powered club night

Trail Sonified – Staged in a car park on the edge of the Lake District, Merrell turned data gathered from athletes into a full-blown party at Kendal Mountain Festival, in a collision of underground music and overground sport.

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  • Ella Glossop
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Huck’s guide to Kendal Mountain Festival 2025

Share the Adventure — From film premieres to late-night parties, here are our circled events over the jam-packed weekend.

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Races, revving and revelry: 20 years of US motorcycling in photos

American Motorcycling Culture — Photographer Jack Lueders-Booth has had a lifetime obsession with two wheelers, and the wider culture surrounding them. His new photobook explores his archive between 1980 and 2000, taken at road meets, track races and more.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Dora Atim: “Bravery is going off piste”

Ultra Black Running — Ahead of Kendal Mountain Festival, Phil Young catches up with the running influencer to hear about her work and building a community, while tracing how brand support for diversity initiatives has dwindled in recent years. 

  • The Outsiders Project
  • Phil Young
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“Skiing gives me inspiration, art lets me translate that”: Max Palm on creativity, skating and his new collection

Snow rail jam — The freeskier will launch his first capsule set for Peak Performance at London Bridge’s White Ground Skatepark this weekend, which will see space turned into a snow sports playground.

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Sumo’s away day shook London. Could it ever take off?

Hakkeyoi — Touching down at the Royal Albert Hall, the Grand Sumo Tournament marked the second time an official five-day tournament has ever taken place outside of Japan. Ella Glossop investigates whether the sport could ever find mainstream success on British soil.

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  • Ella Glossop
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For trans surfer Alice Barbosa, rediscovering her stoke is an act of resistance

Alice — Gabriel Novis’s new film focuses on one of his old family friends, who had drifted away from the sea after facing prejudice in their local scene in Maceió, Brazil. We caught up with the filmmaker ahead of its UK premiere at the London Surf / Film Festival this weekend.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Inside Liberia’s nascent surf scene

We The Surfers — Once ravaged by civil war, the West African country’s waveriding crew and infrastructure is growing. Arthur Bourbon’s new film celebrates the Robertsport Surf Club and the locals who have created a joyous, idiosyncratic community.

  • Sport
  • Sam Haddad
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“Skateboarding is the best culture”: JJ Villard on his boardriding past, animation’s future and his new Volcom collection

Freak Family — As the latest to helm Volcom’s Featured Artist series, the award-winning animator and illustrator drops a macabre, Halloween-themed capsule collection. We caught up with the cult-favourite cartoonist to hear about it, his skateboarding background and creating in the age of AI.

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  • Isaac Muk

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