📷 via Quinn Batley
Five Favorite Parts is always at its most interesting when it’s a study in contrasts. For instance, the ledge lord being partial to crust and hucking, or the Man With The Beautiful Push curating a slate of transition parts. Efron’s part in Violet’s “SQUEAKY“ from earlier this year was a mini-movie (probably the first time I can recall a theater erupting in applause for flatground lines); Efron’s favorite parts, though …those rarely make it over the two-minute mark.
History’s three most important skaters.
The goat was on The Bunt last week 🐐 (The goat is Zered.)
Screamed at the screen on the Terminator ollie attempt. (27th + 1st for those whom “Terminator” might not mean anything.) Australia’s Hoddle Skateboards ripped through Toronto, Montreal and New York to bring home an exceptionally fun trip edit by Majick Templeton. Shaun Paul does the Mariano Mouse credits trick, the boys skate a ton of diamond-plate in New York rather than the obvious stuff, and is that the first Times Square trick since the pandemic footy deluge from there?
Skate Jawn interviewed our dog and future beekeeper, Brian Scherer. (Loosely-related reminder for everyone to read the 2018 New Yorker article about the guy in Red Hook who manufactured Maraschino cherries and what happened after the local honey turned red 🐝)
This is sandwiched between clips of dudes falling off roofs but it’s fine because both were ok — intro guy confirmed ok via the comments on the post, #1 guy ok because he went back and got the clip so his boys could edit it to the Scarface theme. That being said, think twice before you, yaknow, fly off a roof.
Yes, this one was filed a lil’ early. Will get to the stuff mid-week onward on the next round :)
Have a good one ❤️
Why the hell is there already a Knicks preseason game tonight? We just won last week…
Naquan Rollings posted up his edit from the L.E.S. Park skate jam dedicated to the memory of Marquis Blondel ❤️
“Cities hire ad agencies to craft entire campaigns to woo tourists. The skate shop video as a genre achieves the same thing powered by a handful of skaters placed somewhere around their late-teens and into their early-20s, a couple of responsible adults, and a steady flow of price-point shop decks.” Ian Browning wrote about the enduring power of skate shop videos for Closer. (Loosely related / ICYMI: A QS piece we did on the enduring power of shop …tees.)
Gabriel Fortunato with two lines @ the Fulton Street Subway stairs. Must be nice.
Fuck This Industry posted up a vlog from their trip through New England to Genuine Risk Lane. Includes Coles Bailey footage, yes.
After nearly a year, the long ledge from last year’s jam is still holding strong — although it has admittedly seen better days. (Keep in mind, it has been hoisted atop a pillar already to create an above head-high drop-in earlier this year. Can’t imagine it came down lightly.) And while this has certainly been one of the most inventive year for obstacles in Tompkins’ skateboard history, every park in every city could always use a fresh, long ledge.
This year, we added another five feet to it. Nikolai and Mark did Nikolai and Mark stuff on it, and Graeme Turner came through as a sleeper MVP. Greg didn’t catch P Tricky’s banger on the HD cam, but we’ll probably need to hardpost the iPhone angle for posterity’s sake. Thanks for everyone who came out 🤝
