A.V.E. @ Blue Park 📷 via @jerseydave01
If you have the means, please donate to help Crushed Skateshop — the only shop in Washington D.C. — keep open its doors.
“My first response was that its super chill and that I have a good balance on both, but now that I think about it, the way I and a lot of people in New York operate is not normal.” Heckride’s latest is an interview with young legend and Limosine rider, Enzo Kurmaskie.
They say “skateparks are growing up.” Wasn’t expecting such an in-depth dive into skateboarding’s evolving role in public space design, “skate gardens,” and the Mount Prospect Park skatepark situation from …Bloomberg.
John Petras and the homies from Radio Skateshop just dropped a half New York / half at home in Pittsburgh edit.
“Gas prices. Financial stress. No spots. Too many spots too choose from. Filming a clip that you wanna save for a video and the skater posts it on Instagram.” Adjacency Bias interviewed Genesis videographer, Ian Ostrowski.
Yardsale released a new team edit last week.
Ishod uploaded a nine-minute reel of Euro-heavy raw files from his last part.
Lucas Puig and some European ledge lords hit Biarritz for some seaside crust in promition of Puig’s new Samba shoe. (For anyone just joining, seaside crust is one of this media establishment’s favorite micro-genres of skateboarding video.)
Our friends at Free have a dive into the labor of love behind POP Trading Company’s upcoming video, due online this month.
Silas Baxter-Neal recommends a book, an album, a movie and a skate video for Slam City Skates’ “Offerings” series, alongside a #longform interview.
If you need some $50 skate shoes, peep the QS webstore ;) Sizes are spotty obvs.
Spot Updates 📍— The Dag Park hubba is fenced off for construction. Sign says the permit is for construction vehicle storage, so it may not mean the spot is being torn down just yet.
iPhone Loosies Corner 🚬 — Two minutes of Diego Todd loosies.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Steph Curry in the final minutes v.s. France in the title game makes it look like P-Rod is playing me in S.K.A.T.E.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “The kids love Bad Religion.” — Abada
Was at FedEx the other day and the fact that he makes such nonchalant use of it with that manny flip line is so wild. Watch the full vid ICYMI.
Are you guys playing Mortal Kombat with your best friend from Vietnam?
He was truly ahead of his time in that scene