Our friends at Skate Jawn celebrated their 15th birthday last week. To commemorate, they brought a 1999 Toyota Camry and Hell Camino to K-Bridge and skated them.
Seems like there’s a new sub-genre of skate content brewing where we all try to get to the bottom of what’s the “matter,” “wrong” or “off” about skateboarding. Bubble just dropped one boldly called “A Few Theories Why Skateboarding Got Old And Is Not Cool Anymore.” (Their sources aren’t anonymous like ours were.) Can’t help but point out that other interests that hold this media empire together (rap, NBA basketball, etc.) have also been the subjects of recent “OMG WHAT’S THE MATTER” panics, and pretty sure those’ll be fine. Like what’s doing “well” as a “culture” in 2025 even mean? The bop house?
On that note, Mike spoke about the brand survey on the Mostly pod.
“Sci-Fi’s fantasy provides a place for the skateboarding to live without actively obscuring it.” Simple Magic wrote about the Sci-Fi Fantasy video, Endless Beauty.
“Some version of a 40s-or-higher power ranking may already be in development for the shockwave-emitting clips that increasingly are being logged by decades-deep vets/masters/whatever other colloquialism currently goes for those more likely than not to grunt on each bail and ride-away.” Boil the Ocean’s latest explores which skaters are the equivalent of Greenland sharks, e.g. old[er] and thriving.
Wouldn’t think The Center For Economic & Policy Research would be reporting on the effects of private equity in skateboarding, but they are. If anyone wants QS, we’ll sell it for like $250.
Juan Reyna and his crew dropped a half NYC / half Texas edit as they work on their full-length.
Josh Kalis has a career-spanning interview on the Beyond Boards podcast + the latest episode of the Skate Muzik podcast is a tribute to the #musicsupervision in Mike Carroll’s video parts.
“I remember Sage talking about how Dill tried this. I think Dill pissed me off, and I was like, ‘Fuck him, I’m gonna go do this.'” Alex Olson recounts vengeful cover shoots as the latest guest on the Lookback Library’s “Cover Discussions” series.
Spot Updates 📍 — A car crashed into Pyramid Ledges on Friday morning. The ledge is fine.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — BetterSkateThatNever put together a 21-minute Nick Matthews megamix on account of him going pro.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “Should I meet up with my mom or go to the Banks?” — Rico Abdou
🎶 Started in a warehouse now we here 🎶
NBA and skateboarding are still the best….
This week’s top ten gonna just be new Gustav entire part looped ten times in a row
Yeah high key did not want that to end.
was telling a friend amidst all the discourse about there being no song of the summer abut how quarter snacks was one of the first places to write about song of the summer is there any truth to this
That seems profoundly incorrect.