Max Olijnyk

"They’re not just good; it’s mastery. They’ve mastered skating.'

The country is keen to get a skate team in the Olympics. We went along to see what "keen" means in China.

The NGO launching its ambitious quest from New Zealand to avoid the politicisation of space.

Skaters took one underused carpark and made a skatepark, while the council looked the other way.

Officially I was there for 'The War for the Planet of the Apes', but what I really wanted was to make friends.

‘What are you up to out there?’ said the tent. ‘I’m driving back to town,’ I said.

"After 9/11, it was really hard for me to think about going to work again, and maybe it will be a similar thing here too."

Thursday's shooting of a man in Rotorua follows the Tuesday death of 36-year-old Nick Marshall in Frankton.

We turned out to watch Ronnie Sandoval, Pedro Barros, Raven Tershy, and some guy called Chris Russell, who eventually won the $75,000 prize.

Tas went to the clink clink for trying to traffic a kilogram of coke from Argentina to Australia between a pile of longboards.

We thought it was time for an Australian take on American barbecue, so we enlisted the help of Chris Terlikar and Rob Swander of Bluebonnet Barbecue to come up with some delicious recipes.

Skate videos schooled Max Olijnyk on tricks, fashion and the music of the Kinks, Love and Sizzla.