Rock Salt Apocalypse

Tristan Mershon uploaded Singer Tower in its 46-minute entirety. Nate Grzechowiak has a banger of an opening part that hadn’t been shared as a single anywhere. Some of those spots must’ve been around for less than 24 hours. Pays to stay on foot.

Simple Magic rounded up the best skateboard writing of 2025, with Mike’s “What’s The Matter With Skateboarding?” shop survey piece and Jacques’ “Skateboarding & The Silver Screen” piece making the list. (Also thanks for the nod on the Tim Duncan pants piece + the waxing ledges one. Those were fun to do.)

Everybody do this in 2026: get the goddamn backstories to the video you spent two-and-a-half years working on, take photos of the Guinesses you got after your boy landed the trick, and put them in print, a podcast, a video essay, anything. The algo is ruthless, but stories are forever. Slam City Skates got the backstories behind some of the brightest moments of Cafe’s ALLEGRO video that went live during one of the Skateboard Oscars Season™ onslaught weeks.

“To nobody’s surprise, I probably won’t take on this challenge again.” Our friend Greg Navarro challenged himself to only skate switch for a month, and wrote about his findings on Jenkem.

Was kinda shocked Gus Gordon’s Anti-Hero part didn’t crack the top 20 on the Readers Poll this year. Thought this was a Gus Gordon house 🙄 Boil the Ocean righted the wrong though, as he’s #6 on the list, which is counting down now.

Skate Jawn has a beautiful lil’ photo feature about the skate spots that have propped up out of the dams on the Connecticut River.

An extended, ten-minute alternate version of Van Wastell’s 2006 Krooked Kronicles part. Yes, that video is twenty years old.

Jerry Hsu is the latest guest on the Beyond Boards podcast + Chico Brenes is the latest guest on Jacob Rosenberg and Ted Barrow’s Epicenter podcast about S.F’s Embarcadero.

The future of New York belongs to Mias and Noahs.

Loosies Corner 🚬 — A collection of 1997-2006 Jerry Hsu loosies from various videos + three minutes of Gabbers + three minutes from Dime’s Fred Lanteigne …with BGPs from Gabbers.

QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — It’s a bit impulsive that they’re renaming New York to Tyler Kolek City already, but what’s in a name yaknow? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Quote of the Week 🗣 “I’m going through it like Gabbers.” — Jefé

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Also thought this was a Hjalte house 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄