Such is the human condition, is it not? • 📷 via @solojazz
Anyone try skating the new Battery Park yet? Prob a bit crowded…
It’s funny when the knob that they skate-block a spot with becomes an apparatus for tricks like a fakie inward heel switch fifty front 180 out — pretty much ramping up the level of technicality possible on a spot more than if they had just left it alone. All that and more in Ben Patrick’s fakie-forward Coda Skateboards part, released via our friends at Village Psychic.
“It’s a certain type of punishment to have to watch a video you worked really hard on over and over and over… it’s gnarly. I’m only two premieres in, and I’m already losing my mind a little bit.” Simple Magic spoke to Ryan Lay about the Sci-Fi Fantasy premiere tour, and the return [?] of touring skate moments in general.
Nick Matthews got the long overdue pro nod from Anti-Hero, and his new pro part has a couple of New York clips in it. The Manhattan Bridge ollie is absolutely insane (had to stop and look at it last week), but would probably prefer that people not skate into Manhattan Bridge traffic…
“You’d have to push 100 MPH to get up the Big Banks at 20 MPH.” Sean Kelling — who runs a skate shop named after the Brooklyn Banks some 3,000 miles away — talks about them in the latest episode of TWS‘ mini-podcast, “When The Brooklyn Banks Were Dangerous.”
Rockaway Park, Tompkins and the streets in Nate Hanson’s “+++ (saturday)” edit, which features a bunch of Homies Network affiliates and best of all: CUSTERRRRRRRRRR!!!
Handful of New York clips in Austin Heilman’s ACE Trucks part.
New York Mag‘s Curbed publication got Adam Zhu off the grill to talk about Market Gallery, his onetime outdoor storage shed that was a skater bedroom during the 2010s and is now something entirely else ;)
Anyone who remembers Oski’s contribution to “Switch Flip: The Movie” will be shocked to learn that he has a Josh-Kalis-in-Photosynthesis-level flatground fakie flip.
A five-minute compilation of all of the 411VM appearances from Kien Lieu, a legend of pop who is an inspiration to all the legends of pop after him, from Sage Elsesser to Cyrus Bennett.
Theories posted up their favorites from the Jordan Trahan remix contest.
Quote of the Week 🗣
[while discussing the concept of “Cali Sober“]
“Four beers is basically New York Sober.” — Max Palmer
82nd and York repaved and bombablly mellow