Much commotion was made over a tre flip in 2025. After the Top 10 Desk conceded to the zeitgeist in its final dispatch of the year — rather than clawing against it like it might’ve stubbornly been inclined to do during less-exhausting years — the QS office was able to find consolation in the fact that this tre flip could be left behind in the year it had come to define.
And what better way to palette-cleanse and usher in a new year for tre flips than… over a hundred new tre flips?
“Excuse me sir, your phone and pills are on the ledge we’re trying to skate.”
As the company charter dictates, before we put the lid on 2025, we must chop up a bunch of clips from the past twelve months to the year’s defining songs. And man, is it a tremendous relief to have MexikoDro soundtracking the chilling-but-sometimes-hitting-the-bar experience in 2025. If someone can make “woke up, took a shower, got dressed” sound that fuckin’ cool, there’s no reason for you not to find the magic in the routine of your own life, yaknow? Beyond that, we’d like to welcome Tinashe back to the fold of the “Best of” edit #musicsupervision for the first time since 2014 …with a song that sounds like it’s right out of 2014 (in a good way, obvs.) And if you didn’t hear “Shake It To The Max” seventeen billion times this year, you didn’t leave your house. Here’s one more.
Otherwise, we filmed Antonio and K.T. do seventeen billion switch tre’s, went to Lisbon, and got stuck at the Banks more than once. Thanks everyone for rocking with us this year, and thanks to Jefé and K.T. for filming a bunch of the phone clips. See everyone in 2026 ❤️
(There was some fuzzy audio shit in a couple of the clips I couldn’t figure out, but December 30th isn’t a day for troubleshooting. It’s an edit for the bros, not Cannes.)
Tristan Mershon uploaded Singer Tower in its 46-minute entirety. Nate Grzechowiak has a banger of an opening part that hadn’t been shared as a single anywhere. Some of those spots must’ve been around for less than 24 hours. Pays to stay on foot.
Simple Magic rounded up the best skateboard writing of 2025, with Mike’s “What’s The Matter With Skateboarding?” shop survey piece and Jacques’ “Skateboarding & The Silver Screen” piece making the list. (Also thanks for the nod on the Tim Duncan pants piece + the waxing ledges one. Those were fun to do.)
🎨 Graphic by Francesco Pini
📊 Ballot Count by 4PLY
The results are in and we now have a snapshot of skateboarding in 2025, as voted on by QS readers. Unlike past years, when there was sometimes only a few vote split between first and second place, ties, etc., for the most part, everything cleanly landed where it landed this year.
And it should be said that this listing was voted on between 10:30 A.M. on Monday, December 8th until 5:30 P.M. on Friday, December 12th. Chris Joslin’s “G-Ma” part, which would earn him Thrasher‘s S.O.T.Y. trophy, was released around noon on Wednesday the 10th. Zion Wright’s part was released the morning of Thursday, the 11th. A similar thing happened the year that Miles Silvas won S.O.T.Y. But one hill we will gladly die on is that nobody wants to talk about year-end recap stuff in the following year. We will extend eligibility to any parts that came out starting December 8th into next year’s ranking.
To anyone just joining us: This is NOT a selection curated by QS staff. Editors and contributors can vote, but this was tallied across hundreds of publicly submitted ballots. If you’re interested in the methodology, 4PLY broke down how we tally the votes ✨
📷 Photo by Mike Heikkila
Many people first caught onto Johnny Cumaoglu’s skating through his friend Tristan Mershon’s Fool’s Gold video, a pandemic-era New York project released in early 2021 that had everyone from Blue Park to T.F. asking, “Where the hell are those spots?” (Bonus points if you, of course, were tapped in to the vibrant world of 2010’s New Jersey videos though.) A bit has changed since then: Johnny has a spot on the WKND roster, a recurring role in Jeff Cecere’s 2022-2024 three-peat, and he is no longer a DC Lynx absolutist.
But some things are the same. He is still filming with Tristan on a VX, and has the closing part in his Singer Tower video (his first full-length in 4+ years, hardcopies are for sale!), which we are proud to present to you today.
