All photography by Zach Malfa-Kowalski

There has been a recent development that has lead G-Man and Marquez E.T. — two of the QS roster’s star players — to “chill” as they await trial on felony charges involving an incident where they allegedly tried to steal a $15,000 couch from the lobby of an Upper Eastside apartment after a girl had kicked them out of her home for being violent and intoxicated, all for the purpose of skating over it in the middle of Park Avenue. Their lawyers have specified that the allegations are a case of mistaken identity and their legal team is working around the clock to ensure that they will be vindicated by a jury of their peers sometime in the early Fall.

However, due to these legal troubles, and the overall susceptibility of getting into even more trouble that these two have grown infamous for, they will not be skating until after the trial. This, of course, leaves us in a tight spot where two of the largest salaries on the roster have been benched until the final fourth of the season. They have hinted at returning to the board prior to this, but there has been no definitive information as of yet.

We have been known to make the best out of tough situations, and pending their inevitable acquittal, we have formed a temporary team that includes Youness Amrani, Daniel Lebron, Shane O’Neil, and perhaps several surprise guests down the line to fill in the gaps on the roster for a week or so.

While this pairing with traditionally talented skateboarders may seem unlikely for a website that tends to value the front shove-it maneuver over pretty much every handrail trick ever done, and one that manages to find mildly relevant ways of interjecting a tidbit about Robbie Gangemi into articles about June’s Maloof contest, we’re going to try particularly hard to make the next week not look like every single video clip that surfaces on the internet of people in New York at the end of August. In other words, we’re trying a bit to not do the rudimentary routine: “Ok, here’s the Courthouse Drop, Black Hubba is across the street, here’s the Banks nine, here’s Pyramid Ledges. Ok, cool. So, meet at the Fish in an hour?”

And if you don’t buy that, maybe the skateboarding will speak for itself, seeing as how Nugget somehow (well, maybe “somehow” isn’t the right word) threw his board down yesterday, took a push and a half, and switch flipped the Chinatown Double Set in one try.

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See you tomorrow.