All of Van Wastell’s backside tailslides.
Added Matlok Bennett-Jones’s “At Aragon Gardens” part to The Quartersnacks One-Spot Part Map 📍, filmed entirely at …Aragon Gardens in London. That’s 99 spots on the map! Really hope #100 isn’t some bullshit like a part all filmed at Third and Degraw. (Unless it’s Gabe.)
📅 1) Wip Energy, Labor, Tenant, Spitfire, Grand + Gotham Park are bringing the Back To The Banks contest …back for the first time since 2008 (!) Next Saturday, October 4 from 1-5 P.M. $10k in prizes. Flyer here. 2) The fellas from Yardsale are hosting a pop-up + party on the Lower East Side this week. Flyer here.
It’s Love Park centennial week on the skate interview circuit or some shit ❤️ 1) One of our favorites, Jack Sabback A.K.A. Bob Burnquist, gave his first post pro retirement interview ever to Bobshirt. We’ve all been trying to get him to do something like this forever. Stoked he did. 2) Brian Wenning gave his first post-jail interview to Living Proof. Are they going to reach out to Jeff Lenoce for comment?
“That’s Noah’s advice when you’re battling something: just like try a little less hard, think less.” Our buddy Zach Baker interviewed the Limo-verse about Noah Mahieu and Raphael Langslow’s new Nonni part on Free.
High Snobiety is right, Kader is my favorite skater.
“Every one of my peers I asked at Stoner was honest and told me they never called it a frontside half Cab. Nearly 100% call them fakie frontside 180s and fakie frontside flips.” Those QS commenters who get aneurysms any time we say nollie half cab flip are going to lose it with this one: Tony Hawk and Steve Caballero debate frontside half cab v.s. fakie frontside 180. If Jeremy Wray is saying frontside half cab, it’s frontside half cab. That is also what the Tompkins name for it has always been. Interesting that it is not that at Stoner.
They deadass made all-heather sweatpants material SB Kirkland Dunks exclusively for Costco. Those are going to be treacherous-looking after a few wears, but that’s probably besides the point.
Our correspondent Farran Golding is holding a skate media round table in Nottingham this week, and holding an open submission call for questions. (It’ll be posted up online afterwards.)
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Some P-Rod clips from F.T.I. year. That MACBA line is the skate version of 2016 Finals Lebron.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I’m going to quit smoking after Complex Con.” — Sweet Waste
Araabmuzik doing the Tenant anniversary party is beautiful.
They better hook up the entire Costco curb squad in LA with the Kirkland dunks