It’s A Recap Baby! — QS x adidas Longer Ledge Jam @ T.F.

After nearly a year, the long ledge from last year’s jam is still holding strong — although it has admittedly seen better days. (Keep in mind, it has been hoisted atop a pillar already to create an above head-high drop-in earlier this year. Can’t imagine it came down lightly.) And while this has certainly been one of the most inventive year for obstacles in Tompkins’ skateboard history, every park in every city could always use a fresh, long ledge.

This year, we added another five feet to it. Nikolai and Mark did Nikolai and Mark stuff on it, and Graeme Turner came through as a sleeper MVP. Greg didn’t catch P Tricky’s banger on the HD cam, but we’ll probably need to hardpost the iPhone angle for posterity’s sake. Thanks for everyone who came out 🤝

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Please Send Ryuhei Kitazume To All The Ledges

Stick around long enough, and you’ll notice how things happening remind you of things that happened. In Ryuhei Kitazume‘s new part, you might clock the peak-Transworld video style voiceover waxing poetic about the magic of ledges like it’s Kalis talking about Love in ’96, the Y2Kish jump-cut editing reminiscent of The Reason, or the music video that cuts halfway into the part. But Shinpei Ueno and the minds at Tightbooth have always ran this style.

No, the thing reminiscent of another time is that they’re trying to make a skate video feel Big. Or at least Bigger than they’ve felt in a while.

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