This deserved its own post but dropped on a travel day: 10/10 style-out on that opening switch ollie, they got …graced with enough time at the Grace building 🥁 to get a line, and OMG @ that inward heel in “Double E,” a new Orchard Skateshop edit starring Eddie Vargas and Eamon Durkan, filmed by Ted Purtell. Mostly Mass spots, but they make it down to New York a few times. (That impossible in the West Village, too!)
Xavier Holte skates through the rock salt in a cruisey, all-NYC part for OJ Wheels.
Jenkem has a great feature on the next generation of skate videographers from around the world, including the New York-based Alim Orahovac.
Naquan Rollings dropped a five-minute Paris and London edit starring Tallys Jr., Felipe Munhoz, Jahmir Brown and others. That switch front heel is crazy.
“One of my editors was looking at the final draft while she was getting her hair done, and there was a moment when the hairdresser said, ‘I had no idea that there were so many women in skateboarding and so many different people in skateboarding.’ She sent me that text and said, ‘The book is doing its job.’” The Skateboarder’s Companian has a #longform interview with Dr. Neftalie Williams about his new book, The Skateboard Life, which profiles 65 of history’s most influential skaters.
Rain, snow and shine in Nelly Morville’s new iPhone edit, including a stop at one of Max Palmer’s all-time worst spots.
The feeling was that somebody would figure out ~something~ when they renovated the Wagner part of Battery Park, and Ari Misurelli seems to have officially unlocked the spot’s future marquee obstacle. This summer’s gonna be nuts on that thing.
There is a petition going by the Harold Hunter Foundation and The Skatepark Project to rename Tompkins to Harold Hunter Park.
Thrasher has a 20-minute edit from a massive November jam in the bowl at the Supreme in L.A. We should do the same thing but down the stairs at the Bowery location.
The Mostly Skateboarding podcast dedicated half an episode to talking about Tristan Mershon’s NYC-based video, Singer Tower.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Three minutes of Corey Glick loosies + 22 minutes of loosies from the entire Sci-Fi Fantasy team.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Anthony Black dunks on four defenders at once.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I love a good parfait.” — Antonio Durao