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Shin Sanbongi Surf Goat Remix

June 19th, 2019 · 3:23 am · 1 Comment

We’re not in the habit of posting surf footage, but there’s a first time for everything! City schools get out in the coming week, real summer is almost here, and everyone ends up scheming on how to bum a ride to Rockaway. In honor of that, we threw together a greatest hits remix from the past ~year of footage from prolific back noseblunter, #top10 staple, and also the QS office’s unanimous favorite surfer, Shin Sanbongi.

Footage is pulled from Shin’s Instagram + Tao’s awesome Marseilles vid for Carhartt WIP, which is worth a rewatch since it feels like it flew a bit under the radar + a couple loose Adidas clip / Polar video bits.

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R.I.P. To The 12th Best Spot In The Financial District

June 18th, 2019 · 11:05 am · 2 Comments

This place — whatever you called it — got knobbed.

The neighbors from the adjacent roof threw marshmallows at us the second or third time we ever skated here, so it got dubbed “Marshmallow Ledges” on the spots page — though nobody ever called it that. It was “those wooden ledges on the sidewalk over by World Trade with the kinked metal bench before it.” The park was part of a W Hotel, except what a boring thing to name even a boring spot after.

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An Arm & a Leg & a Monday Link

June 17th, 2019 · 1:30 am · 3 Comments

Jesse Alba made a bro cam edit from a trip to London with Cyrus, Diego Todd + some cameos from the Atlantic Drift dudes.

Alex Olson explains why Mike Carroll is the best for eight minutes.

Naquan uploaded a five-minute “remix” of Gang Corp’s Black Business video, though it feels like a solid chunk of those clips weren’t in the original video.

A wider net for skate interviews this past week than the typical guys talking about their first sponsor type of thing — 1) The Wall Street Journal interviewed Beatrice Domond. There’s a pay-wall involved, but it seems like they let you rock on one free article. 2) “I just really like New York.” Elissa Steamer interviewed Alexis Sablone for Thrasher. 3) Skateism interviewed Forrest Kirby, in what I believe is his first interview since he publicly came out last year.

“Are we already in the Matrix?” Skate Jawn interviewed Jawn Gardner about astrology, the afterlife and time travel + they also have a quick one with Kyota that includes some rad photos.

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#QSTOP10 — June 14, 2019

June 14th, 2019 · 12:01 am · 1 Comment

It might seem like street loops are everywhere these days, but that Copenhagen one has been around since 2016. And in the city that is home to the largest skateboard contest in Europe — literally thousands of skaters have looked at it, and passed. (It’s also in the city that is adjacent to where Oski lives, so…) Shout out to Simon Bannerot for pulling that one off. I think we’re good on loops for the rest of 2019 now ;)

Would also like to issue a correction for not accounting for Jordan Trahan’s kickflip in last week’s countdown. Everyone makes mistakes, but that was a massive failure in reporting on our part, and we won’t allow it to happen again.

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#TRENDWATCH2019: The Road To A Post-ABD Society

June 13th, 2019 · 1:31 pm · 2 Comments

On one of the days that we were in Vancouver earlier this month, we met up at that famous brick bank spot seen in countless Canadian videos. (It is one of the few recognizable downtown Van spots that is not knobbed.) Each straggler running from the fear of the night before would show up to the spot, and share the same observation:

“Wow, Leon’s trick was fucking crazy.”

At the top of the bank is a small fountain that separates it from a wall made out of a bagillion tiny rocks. In Vans’ Courtesy video from February, Leon Chapdelaine wallrid it in justifiable slow motion.

Eventually, one of latest arrivals to the sesh had to burst our bubble: “Riley Boland already did that years ago.” It was even on a Color magazine cover. He indy-grabbed while doing it, but yeah, that wall has been rid.

Nobody changed their opinion. Leon’s trick was fucking crazy.

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