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What Happened to the Tompkins Vert Wall? — A Brief Franco Interview

Features & Interviews July 22nd, 2026 · 12:00 am

📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Orlando Asson & Franco

Previously on the #trendwatch, we cataloged the Tompkins Tetris phenomenon that has been taking hold of the T.F. this year. Born from this cultural movement was a vert wall on the west side of the Tompkins fence, which many of you likely know as the Tompkins Hell Ride™.

Just when the excitement of the new obstacle was at its peak following the Jenkem Block Party two weekends back, the vert wall vanished overnight. We had no other choice than to call Franco, the vert wall’s principal architect, to better understand where and when this Hell Ride™ would continue.

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Sports Are Fleeting, Hell Rides Are Eternal

Daily News July 20th, 2026 · 12:00 am

Jake Keenan was the victim of a horrific act of violence on July 4th, and was hospitalized for the injuries he sustained as a result. If you have the means, please donate to Jake’s family’s GoFundMe to assist with medical costs. Anything helps ❤️

We are hosting a wallride jam with Adidas at Blue Park tomorrow, Tuesday, July 21 @ 5 P.M. until sundown. Cash for tricks 💰 A handful of Adi riders. Same vibe as the long ledge jam, but yaknow …on a wall. Inspired by the long-knobbed Graham & Grand spot a few blocks away.

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#QSTOP10 — July 17, 2026

Daily News July 17th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 3

We have spoken in the past about the kayfabe of waiting for the trick that’s on the cover to pop up at the end of the video part, so it’s kinda sick to drop the “My War” literally the day after the cover reveal. Jace will have probably done another absolutely fucked switch ollie by the time that hits everyone’s mailboxes anyway.

It is also so reassuring that you can watch one Instagram clip and be comforted by it in knowing that you have at least ten or twenty peak Mason Silva parts ahead of you 🧘

Sorry to anyone else who did an impossible or a hardflip this week — for obvious reasons.

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Keys To The City — The Making of Palace’s ‘DETROIT 313’ with Lev Tanju

Features & Interviews July 15th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 7

🔑 Story and Art Direction by Farran Golding
📷 Photography by Alex Pires and Polaroids (background images throughout) by Jack Brooks, originally published in the PALACE DETROIT 313 Photo Book

In the summer of 2026, an exhibition on the history of skateboarding at London’s Southbank Undercroft took place in a subterranean venue next to the world-renowned spot. In this corner beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, which was once part of the Undercroft itself, short films from communities connected to Southbank’s past and present played on loop. They were directed by and featured skateboarders the spot had incubated: the professionals whose careers it has been intrinsic to, the filmmakers whose archives present an ethnography of the area, the 100-strong crew of skate moms who meet regularly, and an atmospheric work by Lev Tanju, the founder and creative director of a generational entity born out of the brutalist landmark: Palace Skateboards.

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