We here on Quartersnacks tend to speak in superlatives a lot. In the past, Black Dave, Benjamin Nazario, Mike Caroll, Gino, Josh Kalis, and Watermelon Alex have all been referred to as “the greatest skateboarder of all time” on this site at some point or other. But here, I am choosing my words very carefully in saying that Ryan Hickey, is in fact, the world’s greatest skateboarder, and will remain to be long after skateboarding dies from the cultural landscape and is misunderstood by archeologists down the line as some primitive device intended for moving furniture.

Rest assured, if Ryan Hickey was around in the 8th century, B.C., Homer would’ve been a mere intern in the literary world, leaving Ryan and his tales of finding gay couples having sex on his roof at 5 a.m. in the morning and Harold Hunter making sexual passes at Denny’s waitresses would have elevated the world’s understanding of the human mind.

So, until there is another skateboarder with a pro board on three or four companies without a real video part due to the fact that no camera could ever do the man justice, happy birthday to the greatest skateboarder the world will ever see.

Quote of the Week: “Yo, back in the day, these niggas skating these spots in Bed-Stuy and the Bronx would’ve got shot, we used to go there and hear bullets whizzing past our heads.”

“This nigga called me in the middle of the night, hysterical and crying, saying that he fucked up, and I’m like, ‘Shit, he killed somebody.’ Then he tells me he hit a parked car.” – Ryan Hickey

Photo stolen from Police Informer