N.B.D. alert 🚨
Naquan uploaded an edit from the Roadkill x Thrasher skate jam that went down at the Red Hook Skatepark this past Tuesday.
Get ready for an hour of O.G. Respect™: Living Proof Radio got Harry Jumonji on for an interview live from Brazil. “If you fall at the Brooklyn Banks, you look like a mechanic.”
Tech God Nelly Morville has a new iPhone edit up on YouTube. Knocked over sign posts are back like they never left.
Manny Santiago wraps up his 40th birthday part with an insane one down the Banks nine, made all the more insane by the fact that he’s four decades in still going for it like that.
Vague has a web premiere of Myles Willard’s Baltimore-heavy Vacant Street Blues part. Spanish grind to nose manny on the Lyric Ledge was crazy. Can see that going down on the Fort Greene monument one day…
Boil the Ocean has a solution to the record-high office building vacancy rates facing many cities: pour some Red Bull on it.
Our buddy Ty Beall recently made a move to Japan, and the latest BEACON promo has his first clips from his new home. That dude’s back 180 switch 5050 down those benches + flip back tail 270 were crazy, too.
“I’m a grown-ass man, and I’m trying something new, seeing if I can do this the ‘right’ way. Fuck it, if that fails, there’s always the other way, but for once, I’m asking for permission instead of forgiveness.” Adjacency Bias makes the civic case for removing knobs from a Portland ledge that has been skated since the 1980s. Because, like they said, there’s always “the other way.” Knobs on, fuck it, knobs off ;)
Heckride’s latest is with Deluxe videographer, Andres Garcia.
Small scene histories are just as important [more important maybe?] to preserve as the big ones. Our correspondent Farran Golding put together Now & Then, a publication celebrating the skate scene in Wakefield in the northern U.K., on the occasion of Division 24 — one of the U.K’s oldest skate shops — turning 20.
Spot Updates 📍 — After a prolonged zero-bust period, the two-stair Tribeca manny pad on Greenwich looks like it’s a wrap once the new tenant moves in.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Two minutes from Aaron Loreth + eight minutes of loosies from the Hoddle crew.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “Hey man, I’m 44 years old — all I have is observations. So I share them with the world.” – Jack Sabback
Something about this feels very …skateboarding.