📷 Portrait by Jersey Dave
With this installment, Dick Rizzo is the first person to achieve what can be described as the E.G.O.T. of Quartersnacks content: a Five Favorite Parts, a formal interview, a Favorite Spot episode, a Deep Dive episode, oh and a #1 on a Top 10 🤝
Check out the obstacle he helped concept and Jerry Mraz built if you’re in Jersey City, too.
Back in the fall, when a couple of Adidas heads were in town for the Long Ledge Jam, we had an idea to get a few of them and a few local-based friends to do a casual, multi-person game of S.K.A.T.E. over the Flushing grate flat gap. Here was a spot that you could run single clips over in your part maybe ~25 years ago, but in the ensuing quarter-century, pretty much every single flip trick imaginable had been done. It is probably up to par for some talented skaters to get competitive over. Unfortunately, due to a few logistical issues, it didn’t work out in the fall.
Last month, however, we made it happen. We got eight skaters to Flushing by noon! That was a miracle in and of itself.
Wheeler Antabanez and Fred Gall’s three-part feature on finding and skating a bank of the roof of an abandoned theater in downtown Newark, New Jersey is incredible. It has everything from urban archeology (the theater closed in 1968 and has largely sat untouched besides by graffiti writers since), to skateboarding to a dash of the paranormal. Absolutely loved every second of it and pined for a time when internet content wasn’t all optimized for shortform social media.
Following Filming, the video essay YouTube channel that brought you the dive into the history of the Element flatbar, has a new one that tracks down 75 skate tricks named after the people who invented them. Yes, he acknowledges a lot of them are obsolete, but an incredibly fun and well-researched piece.
Had a lot of feelings of “wait, were those Kai Kishi tricks in his Venture part?” but seemingly, no, that isn’t the case. Same with Davonte Jolly’s new edit, where even some of the unseen-feeling Dashawn clips would be met with, “That came out a year ago,” so opted for assuming it was all remixed stuff. The backside flip should’ve been in here if not though.
If you want Knicks commentary, you’ve come to the wrong place. Too many fraught years to process anything or assume any outcomes. We hope for the best, it’s all we can do ;)
Have a good weekend.
While Portugal remains one of the most-pinned destinations for skate travel in the post-pandemic years, the leading light for what the local scene has going on has been provided by Lisbon’s Cybercafé Skateshop.
It is no secret that we love a part shared between best friends, so today we are proud to present their latest: “JOGO DUPLO,” which is a joint part between best friends Daniel Crespo and Luis Ceita, who grew up skating together in Barreiro, a city across the river from Lisbon.
