(Relevant)
Pitcrew flooded and needs your help.
New gear on Alltimers.com, including limited edition DJ Thando tees.
“Harold and Muska are waiting for you to go skate.” Anthony Shetler has an hour-long interview with Zered Bassett on his podcast. It covers anything you would ever want to know about a pro who came up on the east coast: Osiris demos, 16 Skateboards, getting on Zoo, not moving west, etc. Ad libs by Mr. T.
Village Psychic interviewed practitioner of unlikely switch maneuvers, Ben Kadow.
Arto Saari interviewed Pontus Alv #scandinavians.
HD video blog #8 from Johnny Wilson.
Pretty sick time capsule from Jim Hodgson: an Asbury Park, NJ Vans Triple Crown Contest from 1998. Fred Gall still with a flip trick-heavy repertoire, Billy Rohan in a Horty shirt, and every dude skating in a backwards hat.
Peter Smolik low-key responsible for 68% of today’s technical skateboarding. All hail.
The Times has an article about the keyholder spot in Long Island City.
Would you rather watch Gino _____ than x modern pro do x trick? You’re in luck.
TWS has a chill “style” animation video for all the nerds.
Deathwish’s east coast tour video has a bit of New York footage.
Video remix contests really bring out the full music supervision spectrum. Aaron Herrington x Company Flow & Aaron Herrington x Jeezy the Snowman.
Speaking of music supervision, SMLTalk explores the history of non-English language song choices in skate videos. FWIW, even though he’s maybe the poster child for this sub-genre of video part, J.B’s best part was to an English-language song:
Shout out to the bros at Black Sheep in Charlotte. They got a video dropping this year.
ICYMI: Thrasher posted its interview with A.V.E. online. That Ted Nugent song from The DC Video was perfect; his psychotic worldviews can’t take that away.
In memory of an appropriately bleak brutalist British skate spot…#alliteration
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week: Javale McGee is only 100 miles away now.
Quote of the Week: “This white bird told me she wants to teach me how to surf. I can’t even swim. It’s gonna take her the rest of her life.” — Carl Williams
Look at it this way: In two weekends, it’ll start getting dark around 7 P.M. again. That means we’re almost out of it. Spring is near. (Hopefully.)
Arto is Finnish, not Swedish.
You’re right, that was supposed to say Scandinavians but they both start with an “s.” I even seen Menik Mati and everything :(
The last ten years of skateboarding=Total garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGp9eiQU_5k