Quartersnacks

Downtime With Rowan Zorilla

Video August 26th, 2026 · 12:00 am

🎬 + 📝 Video & Words by Adam Abada

Skaters have an interesting way of considering time. Spots and tricks come and go, never to be thought of again, but certain fleeting, life-affirming moments captured on video get imbued in amber and entire generations of a scene revolve around them. Meanwhile, lifecycles of content, personalities, and products live and die in a matter of months. Way back in 2023 – one of those lifetimes in the skateboard landscape – we covered the baseball game release party of Rowan’s last shoe. We spoke with Rowan about a few topics including the tricks he did on his favorite double-set, considering the video a sort of mini “Favorite Spot,” with plans to do something longer form with him in the future.

Blink and it’s been three years since. A lot has changed – with skateboarding, the world, and Rowan.

Clips Regardless

Daily News August 24th, 2026 · 12:00 am

Naquan Rollings posted up a four-minute dispatch from Tompkins this summer. Some Nikolai wizardry on the ledge, some psycho John Dilo mannys, and naturally, a giant NYCShawn tre.

Suciu, Cooper Qua, Nicole Hause and Jiro all skated a bunch of New York staples in a new Thunder Trucks four days in New York edit. It’s insane that after probably hours-worth of Suciu parts, he can still make you say “wtf” out loud at the screen. That 180 into the brick bank just outside the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge is insane. Same one from the crazy Alan Bell slam. (“Bro, that slam fucking sucked.”)

#QSTOP10 — August 21, 2026

Daily News August 21st, 2026 · 12:00 am · 1

A Sean, a Dashawn, a Shane and two Mannys.

It should be pointed out that the gentleman at the #2 slot celebrated a 40th birthday eight months ago. Absolute insanity. And *spoiler*: while it feels anticlimactic to give top billing to two Covers™, two months in a row, sometimes the obvious answer is the right answer.

Have a good weekend.

#TRENDWATCH2026: The Lord

Daily News August 20th, 2026 · 10:00 am · 3

For years, skateboarders have been making logos out of inverted pentagrams, doing tricks “for satan,” and embarking on Hell Rides.

Where has this allegiance to the ruler of the underworld gotten us? A red sea of rolled ankles, a famine of decreased ridership from the youth, and a Tompkins Hell Ride in ruins via fire, brimstone and permitted sports group complaints.

Quartersnacks is a secular newsroom — we make no judgements on how anyone should explain existence or live their lives so long as it does not harm others — we merely report the trends. And lately, it has felt like skateboarders are opening up their souls to something besides eternal damnation.

Spring Over — Ben Tenner in Copenhagen

Video August 17th, 2026 · 12:00 pm

📷 by Matt Price

Ah yes, Copenhagen.

Once upon a time, this media outlet’s entire summer brand was dedicated to traveling there. In recent years, it’s been tougher to wind up in Denmark 2x in two months. We get to go other places — it’s fine. (Also, we were there in ’22, it’s not that dire…)

But if there was anyone you could choose to send to Copenhagen in your place, it’d probably have to be someone classically trained on grey plaza ledges with harsh winters barking at their heels, right? Someone who perfected their craft at Eggs, maybe? It’d probably be helpful if they had a Kalis-ian pair of fakie flips to show the world, right?

Well yeah: our friends at Eighteen East had the same idea. They sent QS-favorite Ben Tenner out there to weave some lines, and earn a bonus on exemplary varial heelflip form.