Our dear friends up at Orchard in Boston just dropped their most fully realized project of the Ted Purtell era. Word was it was supposed to go live last week (would’ve made it quite a week to be dropping an east coast shop vid with the word “bone” in the title 🙃), but people were insisting on one-upping their premiere night enders. A good problem to have if you’ve ever sat shotgun to a filmer who’s sighed “the video’s done when ___ gets their ender” across multiple months ;)
We are hosting another Long Ledge Jam with Adidas at Tompkins next Wednesday, September 30th @ 4 P.M. 📅 Even longer ledge! Even more cash for tricks! Check the recap from last year’s to relive the magic.
“Maybe people want to see our videos, but they don’t really buy boards anymore, or they get free boards, or they don’t want to buy skate apparel or whatever; that’s all fine. I get it. But maybe they would be down to pay five bucks for a video, just to support it so that that person, their team or crew, can keep making them.” Simple Magic spoke to Grant Yansura on the eve of the UNC release to see if there’s any way you can make your money back on a video.
The Bunt vid, the Last Resort vid, and the latest Jante, naturally.
It has been over a decade-and-a-half since Chris Milic first entered our hearts in Slap’s One In A Million, and the same screams the world was yelping into their iPhone 3GS screens then are the same ones we’re howling out in 2026.
Tenant is hosting a seven-year anniversary part at Gabriella on Wythe on Sunday. Flyer here.
📷 via Pierre-Antoine Lalaude
TJ Rogers is unequivocally one of the hardest working skateboarders — whether the multitude of parts released last year, the one-man shoe release tour, or pulling up to the D7 Hardies jam and being the one person to knock out three tricks that had never been done before (fakie bigspin, switch front 3 and switch pop shove) — there was a case to be made for him being the people’s choice for Skater of the Year in 2025. In 2026, now embracing new fatherhood and easy to get on the line, we hit him to run down a few favorites.
