Ramping Up: Tam students spur skate park renovation
March 17, 2019
The newly renovated skate park adjacent to Mill Valley Middle School opened for use on Monday, February 25. The campaign to build the new park was driven by Tam freshmen Jacob Moore and Cristian Piombo and has been in the works for nearly two years. The old park was taken out entirely, redesigned, and r...
Overland Boards Brings Innovation to Skateboards
By Joe Russell
February 11, 2014
When senior Albert Streitmann was in second grade, he received his first skateboard. It wasn’t until his junior year, when he joined his good friend Spencer “Spence” Peterson in running a longboard company, that skateboarding became a crucial part of his life. “I started longboarding to w...
Don’t just chuck it, wear a brain bucket
By Max Shulman
May 31, 2012
Contrary to a belief specific to 16-18 year old boys that we are invincible, I have found through both personal experience and the obseervation of others that this is not true. Take the helmet equation. The equation states: take a teenage boy, add overconfidence, throw in the importance of image over safety, and you ...
