Photo by Jason Lecras
We have a capsule with Nike SB releasing this Saturday, April 14. It’s definitely our best one! More info soon ♥
Gonna throw in an early left field link, but the Pass~Port in Greece edit is the best (i.e. watched it more than once) trip edit that’s dropped during 2018’s Winter Getaway Footage Dump Season (yes, I know Australia is in the southern hemisphere.) It’s always nice to learn of some nice new songs in a skate edit too :)
“That’s what I keep telling myself, ‘maybe in ten more years.’ Those ten years go by and I’m still not ready. Actually, I’ve come to terms with it, this is it.” Skate Jawn interviews productivity legend, Dave Caddo.
“In a Warhol-esque version of a future skate industry where 1% of pros earn lavish salaries and the rest ball for position, will everyone have their own brand, with price-points scaling higher in accordance with gnarliness and footage releases?” Boil the Ocean on pros’ t-shirt ventures, and the cult of Jerry Hsu’s Sci-Fi Fantasy brand.
Even if it is in the Times + includes the phrases “daredevils” and “neoliberal training grounds,” Jeff Ihaza’s feature on how skateparks came to be understood, accepted, and built passes the litmus test of linkable traditional news outlet skate coverage.
Noah Johnson’s GQ profile of the GX1000 crew does as well. (Yes, Noah skates.) “It’s frustrating shit when you almost die.” Yeah, dying seems pretty wack.
While the Times may think we “won,” we also lost one of the best ledges in lower Manhattan this past week. The deknobbed ledge at Seaport that was more-or-less a go over the past year-plus is now knobbed not only for grinds, but for manuals too!
Weckingball is the latest guest on The Bunt.
Normally don’t care about “oh, so-and-so already skated to that song”-isms — especially in this fickle footage economy — but “Blowing Up Fast” holds a special place in many hearts. This guy does a line at Three Up Three Down, hypes up P-Rod, and has never seen Baker Has a Deathwish, which is totally fine because it’s almost ten-years-old now goddamn.
And on that note! Village Psychic interviewed Josh Stewart about the unwritten rules of #musicsupervision and editing gimmicks in skate videos.
Our friends from 2nd Nature did the “winter trip to Barcelona” thing.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week: Everyone else is on the Sixers playoff bandwagon orrrr?
Quote of the Week
Rob Harris: “Yeah, Baker is having tricks in everyone’s part in the Alltimers video.”
Adam Zhu: “Oh, so he’s like the Gonz?”
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Nooooo where the fuck am I gonna skate on rainy days now
peel them knobs of brehhhhh
ughh.. yea, the fact that he ended the article in ‘..neoliberal training grounds. maybe!’ shows what that whole article was trying to nudge the reader toward the whole time. like, why pay someone [probably a lot] to write an article on skateparks, and then barely mention their premise in the subheading? maybe two flat sentences buried in the middle address it. ultimately it is right tho; skating is pretty much continually shaped in the shape of the container of consumerism that it came from, and is generally subtly left-leaning.. but also is semi-subconsciously aware of that, and [auspiciously] unaware of any alternative [like how it is not natural law that you have to make a living profiting off your peers… ‘unhappy w getting finessed and being broke? what will make you happy is to be the finesser make other people broke.’]
like sure we get it, everyone gets it, skateparks are an inherently social place… cool.
You lost me at the part where you said being a writer in 2018 is a well-paying job.
cmon man their columnists are easily at six figure salaries
maybe not homeboy here, sure, but it probably wasnt a pittance either. could be wrong
NYT has steadily been laying off writers over the years. The article was fair. I’d argue skateboarding is more neoconservative than anything: i.e nobodys gonna teach u how to kickflip, just gotta go out there and rip ur shoes — and then if you do land a kickflip, noone will be impressed until u do one down stairs, and even when you do one down stairs, there are always gnarlier stairs, and then you finally kickflip the gnarly stairs, but it comes out mob so u gotta go back and do it again cleaner, and then the moment that you do land that first clean kicklfip over the gnarly stairs is the moment someone else switch flips it
jeff ihaza is a freelancer