Five Favorite Parts With Evan Wasser

🔑 Intro & Interview by Adam Abada

Oftentimes a pattern emerges in people’s Five Favorite Part choices. That’s the case for these Evan Wasser selects, which trend towards his native Los Angeles and classic, powerful skating — as well as intros with extended freakout and slam sections. Then there’s the Portland [not so] wildcard to start it out…

Brent Achley – Element Skateboards: This is My Element (2007)

Brent has really cool style; the song is a good song to skate to. That front disaster turn into front noseblunt on the parking curb bank is so, so sick. The whole part is just really good.

Alex Olson – Lakai: Fully Flared (2007)

This part is really awesome. He has a lot of tricks he just does so well – like he does the sickest back smith up this curved upledge – the one that Marc Johnson had a bunch of tricks on. That’s the part where he front 5050s the chainlink fence right off of Fairfax? Then, he later on got the cover [of Skateboarder magazine] for back 5050ing up it. He’s got good, fast, simple skating that’s easy to watch.

Elijah Berle – Girl Skateboards: Pretty Sweet (2012)

I watched this part so many times growing up. He was the hometown hero and I felt like I didn’t have to skate nollie or switch after watching this. That was the first video that I binge-watched, which is pretty embarrassing. I was 13; it was the right time. He nosegrinds this kinked rail and it breaks. He 5050s the second bar of this out-rail that’s so sick. The big ollie out of a bank to frontside wallride to the ground is also so sick. There’s also a really cool line at 3rd and Army with like a kickflip up the three and then the longest 5050 on the flat part of the bar above the ledge — I’d definitely say that’s one of my favorites.

Jhett Brewer – Dr. Scarecrow by Diego Meek (2016)

Jhett’s the sickest dude. This part is fun – he eats so much fucking shit! It’s the craziest bail section ever. But then he skates so sick too, not just bailing. He’ll try the craziest shit and also land it. Jhett’s also an awesome artist [so] that adds to it.

Sage Elsesser & Sean Palbo — “Sean and Sage” by Logan Lara (2016)

All of these are really cool, good parts, but I also think that some are cool to put on Quartersnacks and need some more shine. This is one of them. [Ed. note: At press time, this part has 786k views, which is obviously an astronomical amount of views for a video part. But he’s right, it should have more!] Both Sean and Sage skate really cool in this, but Sage’s footage here is just really simple and powerful.

Previously: An Interview with Evan Wasser (February 2023)

Previously: Ryuhei Kitazumi, Sarah Meurle, Vitória Mendonça, Andrew Wilson, Ben Kadow, Chandler Burton, Pedro Delfino, Johnny Wilson, Nick Michel, Wes Kremer, Jordan Trahan, Ariana Spencer, Elijah Odom, Greg Hunt, Zered Bassett, Neil Herrick, Trung Nguyen, Nick Boserio, Elissa Steamer, Casper Brooker, John Gardner, Bobshirt, Brandon Turner, Shari White, Nick Jensen, Tony Hawk, Naquan Rollings, Jack O’Grady, Josh Wilson, Maité Steenhoudt, Jahmir Brown, Una Farrar, Chris Jones, Mason Silva, Beatrice Domond, Mark Suciu, Justin Henry, Breana Geering, Sage Elsesser, Bobby Worrest, Nik Stain, Anthony Van Engelen, Dom Henry, Bing Liu, Andrew Reynolds, Cyrus Bennett, Jacob Harris, Jamal Smith, Paul Rodriguez, Gilbert Crockett, Ben Chadourne, Tom Knox, Louie Lopez, The Chrome Ball Incident, The Bunt, Lacey Baker, Andrew Allen, GX1000, Brian Anderson, Gino Iannucci, Josh Kalis, Sean Pablo, Wade Desarmo, Chris Milic, Chad Muska, Hjalte Halberg, Danny Brady, Bill Strobeck, Aaron Herrington, Jerry Hsu, Brad Cromer, Brandon Westgate, Jim Greco, Jake Johnson, Scott Johnston, Josh Stewart, Eric Koston, Karl Watson, Josh Friedberg, John Cardiel, Pontus Alv, Alex Olson, Jahmal Williams