Mike Sass uploaded a raw reel from one of 2025’s best New York parts [or anywhere-parts, for that matter]: Neil Herrick 5Ball Re-Rack. Love when you can feel the intentionality in raw file editing v.s. it feeling like a footage dump. Best of all …they just decided to throw in an entire bonus part at the end. Some of that footy is way to good to be sitting at the last two minutes of an eighteen-minute timeline. [16:30 mark.]
Krooked returned to its Gnaughty and Gnar Gnar roots and got the lo-def camera out for “Weirdo 01,” a bro cam excursion to New York featuring the majority of the team (Bobby back at Three Up!), and a mini Andrew Wilson part at the end. Feels like between this and the NBA Youngboy video (lol), remodeled Zeigfeld is having a comeback year.
“Last week there was a feeling of some divine mission having been completed, with Anti-Hero bestowing professional status upon Nick Matthews.” Boil the Ocean wrote about Nick Matthews finally getting the pro nod in its latest.
The winner of the Jordan Trahan Static VI remix contest is kinda like fan-fiction that imagines a world where Jordan Trahan skated for Isle in the Vase era.
There are officially as many pedestrians in New York as there were before COVID. Make sure your spotters aren’t staring at their fuckin’ phones when you’re hucking into the sidewalk.
…and on that note, Jenkem ran down a history of the most iconic pedestrian interactions in skateboard history — although the thirty seconds that gave skateboarding “when you wanna make a million dollars, you come and see The Baby,” “best ride I seen,” and “I especially like the flip of the board” is a major snub. Like, that shit was way before our time and those one-liners endured. The legend from Tim Savage’s new one deserves a shout too.
“Skateboarding always needs more fun but I think skateboarding is in a good place. Everything can exist right now so I think it’s in the best place it’s ever been.” Slam City Skates interviewed Guy Mariano.
“These humble, concrete blobs, designed to ease entry into delis and other stores, can resemble glaciers, pancakes or clamshells and affirm the civic compact.” The New York Times has a great loosely skate-adjacent feature about New York’s makeshift bodega ramps — though none are #spotchecks. [And is as is always the disclaimer when we link to the Times: If you can figure out how to hop a fence to skate a ledge, you should know how to hop a paywall, buddy.]
Spot Updates 📍 — Here is what the new Robert Wagner Park in Battery Park looks like. There isn’t really a stand-out obstacle (the Dill/McFeely/Jasper sculpture is on grass now also), but people will figure out ways to skate it.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — 7 1/2 minutes of Deedz loosies. Also really into the curved transition frontside noseslide becoming “a thing.” Astute QS readers will recall the Gus Gordon one from last fall being the shoo-in of shoo-in’s for a Top 10 entry.
QS Sports Desk 🏀 — Everyone knows that hoping for an ESPN decision to work out well is like hoping the sun won’t set tonight, but for fuck’s fucking sake. Inside The NBA on ESPN will broadcast on nights one and two of the NBA season, then not return until Christmas. Worst of all, the show is a half fucking hour. Coming home on a cold Thursday night in January or February and plopping on the couch to watch Inside was one of the main things that made winter bearable, and now Mickey Mouse is forcing us to watch Stephen A.
Quote of the Week 🗣
Observant Gentleman: “I’m really into your techlord era.”
Diego Todd: “Tech is the key to longevity.”
5boro has consistently punched way above its weight class in videos they put out