Illustration by Charles Rivard PhD.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — that week where we poll QS readers who spend an inordinate amount of time nerding out over skateboarding about what the best parts and videos of the year are.
This project is in its third year of individual ranking, and fourth year overall (the first-ever one surveyed people for the best from the entire past decade.) To anyone just joining, the goal is simple: to try and combat content fatigue by crowdsourcing a canon of the year’s best skateboarding.
We are extending 2022 eligibility to videos released after December 3, 2021, which includes Limosine’s Paymaster, Chocolate’s Bunny Hop, etc. because they came out after last year’s poll closed for voting. (This also applied to Godspeed, John’s Vid, etc. in the 2021 poll for the same reason.) No science is perfect, and skateboarding never sleeps — but nobody is trying to read about 2022 in 2023, let’s be honest.
Voting closes this Friday, December 9 @ 2 P.M. New York time. Results will be presented later this month.
EDIT: For anyone looking to jog their memory of what dropped this year, BetterSkateThanNever has a 2022 YouTube playlist that’s over 200 videos.
P.S. We only ask for your name and e-mail to weed out spam. We don’t sell your info or auto-subscribe you to our mailing list or anything like that.
Past Readers Polls: Best Videos & Parts of 2021, Best Videos & Parts of 2020, Best Videos of the 2010s, Best Parts of the 2010s
If Nyjah doesn’t win soty this year, the award isn’t for skater of the year, it’s for coolest skater of the year, which is lame as fuck.
Bro stfu this is quartersnacks not thrasher
is someone gonna do the thing they do in past years where they drop a list of notable videos in contention from the past year (and late 2021) in the comments? my brain is wore so thin i thought we blew it at some point came out this year
Isn’t it always who’s coolest in proper skateboarding? If you want to know who’s technically “best” go watch the Olympics or something.
Here’s a youtube playlist for those of us with poor memories. What I felt were good full lengths at the top. Followed by good solo parts. Followed by stuff I didn’t feel like ranking:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBIAJF0ocpUN0V1If7VpU9mORt1K4MrlD
None or very little of Nyjah’s footage wasnt recorded this year, it was just posted this year… if jah makes SOTY then there is gonna be new tactics on how to make SOTY a possible thing for competing skaters gunning for SOTY
Bobby De Keyzer – BOBBY
Easy pick for part of the year
wahhh why quartersnacks no care about nyjah wahhh
I am no Nyjah fan but I think its a bit unfair to be like “this is best skater january 1st through december 31” of the year. In years past dudes worked on parts for years and would win for the year they dropped them in. Even the Supreme video that just dropped said it started filming 2020 so a lot of that Tyshawn footage is two years old too.
Subjective Contestants:
Bronze TV Channel 56
Paymaster
Right Here for Pablo
Much Needed After a Long
Baker Video with Andrew Zach and Rowan
Sensibles
Alv’s Angels
You Deserve It
Hockey X
Road Kill
She’s Cheating
The Union Square Vid
Bunny Hop
Go Fly a Kite
Play Dead
The Violet Promo
Money Time
Promaster (is this long enough?)
god how did i forget about the bobby part
it’s telling me i’ve already voted but this is my first time on the site today…..
Yeah that’s a bug, just fixed it! Either refresh or close + reopen browser :)
Jah would win SOTY if it was for Men’s Health magazine and Tyshawn I could argue for Vouge lol.
@The Giza Nyjah didn’t make the finals at the Olympics
ah shit i forgot about jake anderson’s part STOP
*honorable mention*
No solo part this year but Mason Silva has still been on a tear with scattered footage throughout tour/trip videos
Ginwoo 4 SoTY
Respectfully goat video of year
5 greatest skaters alive: Tyshawn, Tyshawn, Tyshawn… and Tyshawn!!
SOTY isn’t X Games Real Street. It was Phelps picking someone he liked to rep the magazine for a year. No one is entitled to it. Every year anyone got it Bob Burnquist and P Rod were doing the most fucked up tricks ever. Nyjah is incredible but that doesn’t make him “skater of the year”. I’m not opposed to him getting it necessarily, but the way people talk about SOTY cheapens it a little bit imo. I actually backed Spanky and think it would be sick if T Funk got it but Tyshawn’s stuff was really undeniable.
Brian, Brandon and Will may get forgotten, but that was a sick one.