No chance you haven’t seen 5Boro’s 5Ball video by Mike Sass yet, right? Parts from Jimmy McDonald, Andrew Singh, Justin Fabus, Keith Hardy, Chris Anderson and Neil Herrick. Next time you’re around Grand Central, take a close look at the spot from the ender.
Stephan Singh has a new, all-NYC homie edit. Park Avenue noseslide shove was fire.
Emile, Jamie Platt, David Stenstrom, Dylan Mills & Kiki Kakitani went on a Polar trip to Austin and Salt Lake City. SLC really has to be a team manager’s dream.
QS-favorite Victor Campillo dropped a part of footage from 2022-2023, full of multi-block lines, aquatic landings, and a general feeling of “you have this level of footage just laying around?”
Been a minute since the last Homies Network edit, but a minute is too short.
Vu Skateshop capo, Gary Smith, filmed a new part in Baltimore for Skate Jawn, and he’s still stacking at the Wire Spot bank that he was one of the first people to ever skate back in the early 2000s.
“But how, exactly, does the academic study of skateboarding connect with the everyday act of skateboarding? What could thinking and writing contribute to skateboarding writ large?” Skate Bylines put together an extensive round-up of 2024 skate academia, with some words about how those studies apply to the real world of hanging out under bridges and pointing cameras at your friends.
The Mostly Skateboarding podcast discussed the allure of shitty skateparks on their latest via the prism of Aaron Loreth’s “Favorite Spot” episode.
Though never as much a formal skate bar as it was an official Supreme Employee After Work Bar [which it …shares a wall with], we’d like to bid farewell to Sweet & Vicious. It was nobody’s favorite bar, but who among us mortals hasn’t had a Thursday evening completely derailed after meeting someone there for a 5 P.M. margarita — a universal drunk New York experience.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Two minutes of Tom Knox loosies + nearly five minutes of Muska loosies culled from all of his 411VM appearances, including some clips on the O.G. Banks rail.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Nikola “Tom Brady” Jokic with 1.6 left on the clock. Can’t imagine how demoralizing this must be when you’re already down 25.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I don’t want to be a sixth wheel.” — David Cabrera, with a seemingly shaky command of odd v.s. even numbers.