The Nature of Gliding “Variety is the spice of life”, a friend of mine once mentioned during a well deserved sunset beer after a day filled with surfing and skating. It didn’t hit me then, the essence these words encapsulated, but slowly it made more and more sense. Imagine a world where every day is [...] More

Jack of all trades, master of all Ostend, to the outsider, and even to the average Belgian gent, is not more than a city tucked away at the shoreline of Belgium. To many, the place is known as a classic European seaside holiday, renowned for its beaches, seafood, entertainment and monuments that make up Ostend’s [...] More

With the recent release of her video profile - series we plan to keep for long - we decided to catch up with Marta and learn about her new life in the city of angels, her background, her future plans and her hobbies. At the same time, we kickstart this new format were we want [...] More

Welcome to the world of Marta For those who’ve been following our moves since day number one, you’ll probably know that Marta Davila Mateu and her imperishable style on a board are two things we can hardly get enough of. Inevitably, for the first profile in our portrait series, we gladly took a deeper peak [...] More

Welcome to the land of the surfskateparks Thailand! Paradisiacal beaches, temples, street food... and surfskate 'Mecca'? Let's put everything in context: During the first months of the pandemic, the world of individual sports boomed as it never did before. Surfskating went along with it - popularity of which, skyrocketed after the first lockdowns. And between [...] More

The YOW Raw Contest is a worldwide surfskate championship run entirely through Instagram. It intends to be a celebration of the sport and an opportunity for the best surfskaters in the world to show what they are capable of, earn money doing it and have some fun on the way.   The third edition of [...] More

The YOW Artist Series was created in 2020 to invite artists from around the world to explore different themes that we feel are central to the human experience, as well as to the surfskate community itself. In its first edition, the 2020 Artist Series featured 4 artists from 4 different countries who contributed one-of-a-kind designs [...] More

In the early days of 2021, we started a conversation with professional longboard surfer Chloé Calmón and her sister, Clara - a graphic designer and visual artist - aiming to create a new surfskate model that emulates the feeling of longboard surfing. Originally, we coordinated a trip between the YOW team and the Calmón sisters [...] More

On the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula, there exists a place unlike any other on Earth. These lands feel drawn straight from legend, with jagged limestone mountains, endless windy expanses of verdant pastures, and a craggy coastline formed by the stormy Cantabrian sea. Euskal Herria, known as the Basque Country in English, is home [...] More