Slow Impact is a four-day event bringing home the incremental effects of skateboarding

In the summer of 2022, Phoenix, Arizona-based professional skateboarder Ryan Lay floated the idea of recreating the Pushing Boarders skateboard event that had taken place in Malmö, Sweden, in 2019, before the beginning of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The result was Slow Impact, a four-day event combining skate events, social gatherings, and presentations about political and cultural issues within the skateboarding community. — Read the rest