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The Best Skate Videos & Parts of 2024 — QS Readers Poll Results

Features & Interviews December 24th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 8

🎨 Graphic by Francesco Pini
📊 Ballot Count by 4PLY

The results are in and we have an official, publicly sourced snapshot of 2024 skateboarding, as voted on by hundreds of people. And unlike last year, when the eventual Thrasher S.O.T.Y. winner dropped a part on the day that voting closed, there were no last-minute surprises. There are some new names, and some longtime favorites who have only ranked 20-11 in the past have finally broke into the top ten ❤️

Thanks to everyone who voted, and everyone who did some writing below :)

This ranking was voted on by QS readers from December 9th to December 13th. Editors and contributors can vote, but this is not a selection curated by QS staff. If you’re interested in the methodology, 4PLY broke down how we tally the votes ✨

Idle Moments

Daily News December 23rd, 2024 · 12:00 am

Humidity ❤️ via Greg Navarro 📷

Quick thirty second Hardbody commercial with Antonio + Hjalte is giving video magazine ad vibes. Told E.J. this was too short, and his response was, “Well, the last video was too long.” New Hardbody stuff live on their shop + your local.

“Interstate” is a sick eight-minute video by Spencer Newman and the youngs, based around Stamford, CT, but with a good bit of New York footage in it. Yelled at the screen @ the slam on that new brick thing by Domino Park + it’s heartwarming to see the “Sphere” [Gold & Platt by CIA Ledge] endure through two decades of homie videos. Titles are coming back, baby!

“If you’re listening to all this hip-hop, why the fuck are you editing your videos to Joy Division?” Farran Golding profiled Paul Young for Closer as he was winding up production on Down By Law + included a video supplement on the art of selecting music for skate videos.

Christmas From The Limo-verse — Enzo Kurmaskie’s 2024 Part By Ryan Mettz

Daily News December 20th, 2024 · 11:44 am

Young goat Enzo Kurmaskie teamed up with other known goat Ryan Mettz to bring you a 2024 close-out part from the Limo-verse. All Paris and New York footy, with a lot of time spent in the city’s jaggedest corners that bring out your inner concerned parent every time he goes into traffic: “Where is the person on look-out duty?!” Something about the ender feels very Barley-ian in the best way possible.

Cameos from pretty much the entire Limosine team, and fellow Oregonian, Aidan Olmstead. Run back Enzo’s part in LAND by Cal’s Pharmacy out in Portland once you’re through with it. (First full part after the credits.)

#QSTOP10 — Top 10 of 2024

Daily News December 20th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 2

After 10,000 hours of watching skateboarding this year, these are the ten clips that brought the most joy / dropped jaws / conversations at the QS Office. Maybe your office spoke about completely different clips a lot more, but that’s your business ;)

It seems like skateboarding swung towards really gnarly kinked rails in 2024, even more than recent years, and the countdown is kind of …not really reflective of that trend. Then again, our biases are clear: three of the ten are in New York [four if you count New York State], and those took precedent over like, idk, the really Gnarly Wallenburg Trick from the Primitive video.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, the kinked rail trend coincided with probably the highest rate of sacks in the intro compilation pre-roll, so…there’s that.

The #QSTOP10 desk will be on vacation for the next two weeks. The countdown will return on Friday, January 3. Thanks for watching this year, and as always, a much bigger thanks to the skaters, videographers, editors, traffic look-outs, spot repairers and knob removers that keep the good times coming ❤️

Tokyo Report — PROV Skateshop’s ‘Prove’ Video

Video & Remixes December 19th, 2024 · 12:00 am

Any skater who has been to Tokyo has a story about walking into Prov. It is like stepping inside of an encyclopedia of small skate brands. If you live in one of the global skate centers and have a small-to-medium size brand, they have it; hell, they might’ve been the first account in Japan to roll the dice on it. At Prov, you’ll see brands that you can barely find in the States, whose drop schedule can be described as once every three months or three years. The knowledge that this crew has of what’s going on in the global skate landscape is truly unprecedented. And they’re down to pay the duties and import it across the globe.