A fakie hardflip worth a quadruple replay (yes, QUADRUPLE!), the dude who had the curtains in Transworld’s i.e. video still crushing it, grates as banks, and it would be nice if every #1 had a closing one-liner as good as this one.
IT’S GRANT TAYLOR DUDE — Hjalte & Antonio Bookend the Nike SB x Dancer Video
This above iPhone angle screengrab really captures the essence of this sick fuck thinking it’s appropriate to switch flip five feet high in the air to clear a three-flat-three. Throw a police barrier across the flat and nothing changes. Also worth noting the subsequent gash in the ground that he rides through as if directly aiming for it.
Hjalte Halberg — who was missed in SB’s Quickstrike opus — dropped a new edit for his Dancer softgoods imprint to celebrate their collaboration with Nike SB. Features an ensemble of influential Scandinavian swoosh-wearers (Karsten, Ville, Hugo, Vincent Huhta) scouring the corners of Copenhagen that the tourists don’t typically make it to (save a few mandatory clips at Jarmers Plads), with Antonio bringing it back to New York for the switch flip in question + some Bond Street bangers at the end.
The 2024 Quartersnacks Cup Presented by Vans — Official Bracket
On Saturday, October 12, we will be hosting The 2024 Quartersnacks Cup Presented by Vans in Greenpoint, Brooklyn 🏆
Sixteen of the world’s best skateboarders will compete in one-on-one races across a specially designed pump track with one objective: making it to the finish line before their opponent. The winners will move on to the next round until there is one champion left standing.
RSVPs + address information will become available on Monday, October 7th.
Below, is the official bracket for the day of the event.
Linklopolis
What a week. Labor announced that it was closing its Brooklyn location, DiVincenzo and Randle got traded, aaaaannnndddd the mayor got indicted.
ICYMI: We dropped a preview of the 2024 QS Cup last week. More details coming this week :)
Diego Najera, Brian Reid and Spencer Hamilton come together for the new Grand Collection edit. It passes as a blip in the edit itself, but everyone agrees that Brian Reid casually mannualing up the bank and over the barrier at the Front Street ledge makes zero sense in physics terms, right?
James from Labor is the latest guest on the Living Proof podcast + German Nieves was the latest guest on The Nine Club.
Raw Files in Italian :) Rat Ratz & Panorama 3 B-Sides via Spezzatura
In the warp-speed era of the skateboard news cycle, raw files, remixes and all that don’t hit quite like they did during slower times.
At least not in English they don’t — because it was hard not to laugh out loud at some of the subtitled Italian commentary [“OOO MY GOD BRO”] in Spezzatura‘s latest upload, which encompasses all the B-sides lying around the finished products of WHO SAID WHAT and Panorama 3 (which, apparently isn’t viewable in the United States anymore on account of a music rights issue?) Italians are known worldwide for their passion, and when presented with the opportunity to wail in subtitled frustration on the floor outside of a Milanese transit hub, the experience is as operatic as one would expect.
