🎬 + 📝 Video & Words by Adam Abada
For the second installment (!) of “Downtime,” we’ve got a seasonal treat with freshly-minted pro Gus Gordon as he rides out a tailbone injury. If one episode makes a pilot, then two gets a series going and we’re looking forward to bringing you more of these inside peeks to what our favorite skaters are getting up to when they’re not skating.
An incredibly obvious #1 (we are past the statute of limitations on any sort of ender #spoileralert here), a couple big kickflips, another UNC clip that made it to the timeline, and isn’t it sometimes better when the set isn’t cleared? Happy to fit some office favorites in here before we arrive at the core of Skateboard Oscars Season™ next week ;)
As you may know, Franco and the boys are hosting a Halloween contest at Tompkins tomorrow.
If you see Pad, wish him a happy birthday ❤️
📷 via Daniel Eric Weiss
Thanks to everyone who grabbed something from the Hopps collab. We still have a decent selection of sizes left. Appreciate the support as always ❤️
Skate Jawn has Neil Herrick’s part from Attention Span by Dana Ross, which also includes a good dose of Matt Militano tricks.
Our friends at Nocturnal down in Philly dropped an edit for their Nike SB AF1, and it includes a mini part’s worth of Mark Del Negro footage. Anyone debating about whether nu-Muni footage is valid in a vid can rest easy in knowing it’s perfectly fine for a skateshop shoe colorway edit ;) Remains to be seen how it fits in your S.O.T.Y part ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hopps x Quartersnacks fall goods available now via our webstore + at fine skateshops everywhere ❤️ Thank you for the support.
There is a specific genre of Miami spot that you see driving around some randomass part of the city, where the entire car will go: “wait…that’s it?” In 70% of cases, that reaction expands to mean: “that lil’ ass bump to that bigass rail …is the fuckin’ spot that everyone does all the shit on?” Sometimes you’ll make it four, five minutes into an Andrew video and not see a single spot where you think, “Wow, that looks fun, I want to skate that” because they all look like the aforementioned. (It makes sense when you have one of the best skateparks in the country, your time on the street is spent punishing yourself. A high-low atonement, yaknow?)
