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‘Where Were You When I Was [Pop] Shoving In The Sleeveless?’

Daily News April 21st, 2025 · 12:00 am

Thanks to everyone who grabbed something from the webstore ❤️ Should be caught up on shipping orders soon. Available at skateshops worldwide now.

Everyone who has logged years skating Tompkins has an immediate answer to “what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen walking into the Tompkins bathroom?” Let’s see if the $5 million they put into renovating it keeps it from becoming the tenth ring of hell again. Now open!

“Yeah, I think that when you show everything, it allows more people in. There are people I know who don’t skate who have watched this and for them it’s like a hero’s journey or something: You’re watching someone go through something, and you can maybe sympathize with me, or maybe think I’m insane, but you get that I’m trying really hard to do something. You don’t need to understand the context for the tricks to get that.” The menswear SubStack, Blackbird Skyplane, got the elusive Bobby DeKeyzer on the horn for an interview about his new part.

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The QS Anonymous Skateshop Survey Asks: What’s the ‘Matter’ With Skateboarding?

Features & Interviews April 17th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 14

📝 Words by Mike Munzenrider
🎨 Art by Francesco Pini

Do you remember that demo?

Ben Jones, co-owner of Kinetic Skateboarding, in Wilmington, Delaware, does. It was the early-90s, Toy Machine. Jahmal Williams and Jerry Fowler were still on the team. It was at a metal skatepark in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “It’s seared into my brain how hard Ed Templeton ripped,” Jones says.

Many readers of this article do remember that demo — a flashbulb moment early in on in a love affair with skateboarding that really sealed the deal — but such memories are becoming increasingly harder to make. That’s one of the takeaways from the Quartersnacks Anonymous Skateshop Survey. We reached out to 20 shops all over the United States that we have close ties with. We asked five questions, but ultimately, tried to get to the bottom of one. It began as a joke, but maybe it isn’t one? There’s a widespread refrain right now that skateboarding is “fucked.” So, is skateboarding “fucked?” …again?

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Fourth Annual QS Thaw Out Recap

Daily News April 15th, 2025 · 3:01 pm · 1

Jersey Dave was like, “Do you guys wanna do an obstacle this year?”

“Nah” — seeing as how the design-by-committee Pool Coping Philly Step™ from last year that people were soooo excited for didn’t live up to everyone’s imaginations. (We got into it at entry #14 in 2024’s Year-in-Review.)

“…wait!” Instead of building what other people want, we’re going to build what we want! And what do we want in an age of tension, frustration, and uncertainty?

A foot-high “hubba” ledge down a mellow slope, with the satisfactory friction of diamond-plate as you make your way down it with any respective dream trick that would prove too frightening for an actual hubba ledge, or even one at a skatepark.

Lucky for us, the prototype already exists on 114th and Morningside, except out of the last 100 years, it has been under scaffolding for probably all but a cumulative four months. So we enlisted the brilliant mind of Jerry Mraz to measure it, and replicate it in fine-tuned detail.

It’ll remain at the Vans park for a tiny bit longer, but we’re currently in talks to restruture it into a plain ol’ diamond-plate box to drop at Tompkins or Blue. Hopefully it gets skated more than the Pool Coping Philly Step™.

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