This might be the first Saturday night dispatch from the QS office ever, but this one slipped under the radar before we clocked out yesterday, and is way too good to throw in a Monday Links round-up. Thrasher has it on the sidebar, but not sure why it isn’t all over our other colleagues’ platforms.
Chicago’s Uprise Skateshop has begun 2025 with quite the two-punch of solo releases. The first was Will Morton’s part last week, with the Huf-esque backside 180 [lofty praise, yes] that some felt was ranked too low at #8 in the January 31st Top Ten. (Everyone realizes that ninety thousand hours of skate footage gets uploaded onto the internet in a given week, therefore it’s statistically impossible to “rob” a clip by saying it’s one of the ten best, right?) The second is from Vince Guzaldo, who first came on our radar when Boil the Ocean ranked his “Immortality Research” part as the best one of 2022. Chicago is perennially a scene that skateboarding as a whole needs to pay more attention to, and these two parts are just the latest evidence of that.
Mr. Guzaldo skates Chicago’s granite cathedrals with a bag of tricks that feels at once reminiscent of peak Puig, with a calm precision that feels like a 2025 update to the “run, skate, chill” era. It is a part that’s simultaneously fodder for the purists who grew up in plazas and are scared of wallies and weird clothes and change, while serving as a reminder for the rest of us to hunker into our ledge tricks with sturdier confidence.
Would say that seeing an Uprise full-length would be awesome, but if they have a third one of these in the stash, that’s totally fine, too ;)
Anyway, off to watch Knicks-Celtics. [Update: Knicks-Celtics went really badly.]
Does the puig remix with gucci mane’s “heavy” still exist online anywhere..?
(vince part was also amazing btw- nollie shuv revert at PO…)