🔑 Interview by Farran Golding
📷 Photo by Zach Baker
One of the most requested installments, for obvious reasons.
And it’s also for those reasons that we included a lil’ bonus for the legion of requesters.
Safe to safe, Max is a DLX head.
R.I.P. Metrocards
Congrats to Nelly Morville on the pro board for Limo! 🎆
Angel Fonseca and the Papi Brand dudes up in The Bronx dropped a new bro cam edit called “Dude, Where’s That Spot,” which’ll have you asking… “dude, where’s that spot?” So fire how nobody skates the downtown Brooklyn skatepark, but you’ll still see that curb down the stairs pop up in edits as a street spot.
Paul Young has been uploading single parts from his Down By Law video, on the occasion that you want a micro-dose: Luke Malaney + the Traffic team, Arty Smith, Grady Smith, German Nieves, Justin Helmkamp, Chachi/Mind Bender/Dustin, Josh Wilson, Vin Perso.
#QSTOP10 — March 21, 2025
HUF Japan’s video is very good, in the event you missed that one.
Hardflip form, manual wizardry [feel like Jaakko and Max would probably have an interesting collective consciousness for spots if on a trip together], and a waist high manual on glass [?] going downhill [??] into …cobblestones [???]. Ed. Note: Apologies to the ABD police! Had a lingering thought of like, “Nik did manny” but shockingly forgot about the nose manny. Should’ve sent it up to the ABD office. Everyone’ll live ;)
(Yes, this got filed before the Cybercafé video.)
Happy spring, have a good one.
Texture Report — Cybercafé’s ‘1500 DIAS’ Video Out of Lisbon
Hard to think of a city whose spots contain as vibrant of an array of surfaces as Lisbon. You have the limestone Portuguese pavement that they’re famous for, but also a symphony of shitty bricks, worn-out asphalt and plain ol’ cobblestones all careening around maybe a sliver of smooth marble — oh and, there might be a tree waiting for you at the bottom of the bank.
As a result, Portuguese skate videos — which have become an omnipresent fixture on the front pages of Free, Grey, Vague, Pocket, Bubble et al. — have honed this unmistakable look that keeps them wholly distinct from all the other European scenes. There’s an extra ASMR-ness to the footage; that one longass slappy 5050 down the curb has to be one of the most satisfying clips in recent memory. Some of the other clips are masterworks in precision and timing.
A 2025 Transworld Video, Why Not? — ‘Former Glory’ By Ricky Covach
North Carolina has a rich history in independent skate media, dating all the way back to Web 1.0 pioneers like SkateNC and Post 22. NC’s scene was among the most prodigious in producing skaters who were every bit as good as the pros, back in a less visible era when such distinctions were easier to catalog. Despite being a pretty big state with a dispersement of mid-sized cities, videos out of North Carolina have always carried this interconnectedness of the entire state’s scene, and Ricky Covach’s new one, Former Glory, certainly has a way of weaving in that local shop vid camaraderie despite covering a place as big as New York State.