Don’t forget: we are hosting a Longer Ledge Jam @ Tompkins with Adidas this Wednesday, September 30 from 4 P.M. onwards. Cash for tricks. Flyer here 🌊
Videographer Simone Rocca just dropped his Rome scene video, AWFUL BLISS, which him and his crew spent the past five years filming for 🇮🇹
“So arrives Plan B’s next-gen showcase ‘Growing Pains,’ where the youthful indulgence of poor judgment includes but is not limited to facial piercings, the ‘scum-stache’ and emotional alternative music almost for sure written in a van rolling through the Midwest. But really it’s tied onto those spry and supremely talented feet.” Boil the Ocean wrote about the new Plan B video.
“There’s a chance this is a projection, but Lacroix’s skate-specific personality — the skiing, hollering, left-field technicality, the nollie-one-foot-backside-smithgrinds down handrails — all reads as informed by inclement weather.” …and Simple Magic wrote about our dog Alexis Lacroix’s new pro part. Congrats Alexis!
In light of the swirling Cons rumors, Walker Ryan did a deep-dive over on his Substack that explores what being “sponsored” by a shoe company actually means in 2026, v.s. what it meant back in 2006. Charts! 📊
Anthony Pappalardo the Writer profiled Boston’s Orchard Skateshop and the crew behind their wonderful new video, Wishbone.
It’s #TRENDWATCH2019 all over again. Friday coincided with the release of two Greece trip videos, one from GX1000, and another from Simon Bannerot and the Volcom crew.
Love it when a European crew video features nearly no New York spots, but one of the three they do is that brick wallride in Jamaica, Queens. We respect a trek.
Daiki Hoshino is the latest guest on The Bunt.
There are a ton of premieres coming up 📅 — 1) Jeff Cecere & co’s new venture, Guestroom, is premiering their new video on Saturday, October 3rd @ 258 Johnson Avenue. Doors open at 8. 2) Obey has a new video with parts from Pero Šimić, Shane Farber + others @ Flowershop at 8 P.M. on Wednesday, September 30th. Flyer here. 3) WKND’s UNC video is premiering at the 2nd Avenue theater every video premieres at on next Tuesday, October 6 @ 8 P.M. Flyer here.
Had anyone actually ever been inside the Tompkins Starbucks?
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Someone compiled eight minutes worth of loosies from the Red Bull Origins Brooklyn Banks contest two weekends ago. They put the Antonio switch tre first ;)
Quote of the Week 🗣
K.T: “So nobody wants to come play frisbee at McCarren?”
Keith Denley: “No. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”