📷 Photo by Eka Seneth
Our friends up at Civil in Providence, Rhode Island are approaching their 20-year-anniversary, yet only now releasing their first-ever, full-length video.
Rhode Island is our smallest state, and as you might have learned from the feature in the last Skate Jawn, that makes the endeavor of an all-Rhode Island video particularly susceptible to spot fatigue and well-worn A.B.D. scrolls. The Civil Video is set to release soon (makes sense that a watershed moment like a shop’s first video would produce DVDs), and today, we are presenting John-Nestor Gamez’s part as a preview.
Gamez’s section has a breezy timelessness to it, which harks back to more hardcopied eras of skateboarding: just a bit over a dozen really solid, sturdy clips that you could plop as seamlessly into a golden-age 411 as you could into a pinned 2025 IG edit. On some clips, it looks like they were going for both ;)
Video by Luke Franco. Additional filming by Kenny Borge and Dan McGrath.
People need to understand how rough these spots are
Cold
With love from New York, shoutout to Civil and John-Nestor. I am so stoked for all of yall. Pro board, when? *eye emoji*