The Ben Raemers Foundation catches up with Louie Lopez to skateboard and see his daily routine. He also discusses the Suicide First Aid Lite training he completed with the foundation.

The Ben Raemers Foundation is a charity organization that was created in 2019 after the death of professional skateboarder Ben Raemers, who took his own life at the age of 28.

The foundation aims to raise awareness of mental health issues and suicide prevention within the skateboarding community. It provides a platform and safe spaces for people to talk about mental health within the context of the skateboarding world, breaking down fears, improving knowledge, and changing preconceptions and misgivings around mental health stigma and taboos.

The foundation welcomes all ages, genders, and backgrounds to be part of making skateboarding a suicide-safe community.

Its objectives include enabling the skateboarding community to develop the skills and tools needed to support each other to understand and address mental health, creating social media content to raise awareness of mental health issues, making films highlighting skaters’ personal journeys in mental health, and delivering suicide prevention training to skate teams and crews, managers, professional skateboarders, photographers, and skate shops across the globe.

Twenty-four riders from the Adidas skate team rip through eight states of the East Coast, visiting shops and your local spots.

Fresh off the Creachzilla Japan tour, Yurin Fujii puts it down in her first full part for Creature Skateboards.

The 17-year-old park skateboarder from Kaganawa, Japan, has been active in the competition scene since her teens.

She recently placed third in Red Bull Bowl Rippers France and X Games Japan Women’s Park in 2023. She also won first place in the World Skate Games Vert Championships in 2022.

But she started out in Exposure contests, winning second place in Exposure Women’s Park Open (6-14) in 2019. In 2020 she won Exposure Best Video Part Transition for 14 years and under. In the succeeding year, she won the same title but for the 15-29 age bracket.