Stellar Regions

This deserved its own post but dropped on a travel day: 10/10 style-out on that opening switch ollie, they got …graced with enough time at the Grace building 🥁 to get a line, and OMG @ that inward heel in “Double E,” a new Orchard Skateshop edit starring Eddie Vargas and Eamon Durkan, filmed by Ted Purtell. Mostly Mass spots, but they make it down to New York a few times. (That impossible in the West Village, too!)

Xavier Holte skates through the rock salt in a cruisey, all-NYC part for OJ Wheels.

Jenkem has a great feature on the next generation of skate videographers from around the world, including the New York-based Alim Orahovac.

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#QSTOP10 — January 16, 2026

Bit of a catch-up edition after last week’s was filed early. Some fat ollies from France to L.A., a mythic nose manny (no filter on that photo up top obvs), and an absolute stunner of a new part from Donta Hill. Maybe the best picnic table footy since Tyshawn in “BLESSED.”

And what’s the last time you truly loved a switch front bigspin? This one has ~personality~.

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Man V.S. Cobblestones — Abel Bourbouze’s “CTRL+Z” Part

We didn’t know much about Abel Bourbouze‘s skating until his Vague part that dropped last winter, and featured some of the most cobblestone-forward Parisian skating in an already cobblestone-friendly era for the city’s skate scene. The opening seconds of his latest, “CTRL+Z,” arrived with audible gasps around the main monitor at the QS submission desk, and didn’t let up until the final marble descent.

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New Jersey: The New Manny Capital Of America? — Hugh O’Hare’s “Just Enough” Video

New Jersey is #1 in many things: K-12 education, population density, bar pies, skaters who go on to be more synonymous with Philly or New York. But one thing people have historically not looked towards New Jersey for, is manuals. It makes sense that a style of skating born on cement islands amid SoCal parking lots would not necessarily incubate as well in a place whose state emblem features Fred Gall.

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