One footed boardslides, wide body hardflips, Mike Mo homages, and an obvious #1 this week ;)
This one got filed a little bit early, so some things got deferred until the next one.
Have a good weekend.
Category: Daily News
Rock Band Tees & ’08 Denim — David Rind’s “Twin Flames” Video
Twin Flames is a sick NYC x Long Island scene video by David Rind, which trawls the beigest and greyest corners of the outer boroughs. Though everyone in the video carries a crust evangelist pedigree, it covers all the bases of the homie video pyramid: the homie who hucks, the tech homie who can flip in and out of front crooks, and the one homie capable of an Antonio Durao-worthy switch frontside flip over a bump-to-bar.
A Bad Ledge & A Plate of Salmon
Adjacency Bias, the Pacific-Northwest skate scene platform, has a new video series examining the opportunities / history created by un-used tennis courts that later become skate spots, called “The Courts.” The first episode is about Portland, Oregon’s court spot.
Nelly Morville made an iPhone edit of a Limo trip to Montreal + more. Fingers crossed Nelly’s YouTube page takes the [dormant] torch from Foghornleghorn for iPhone edits from this crew.
“Antonio Durao’s most recent challenge to skating’s understood limitations suggests a new frontier for the wallride grind, though probably one that requires a certain amount of extradimensional thinking.” Boil the Ocean pontificates on a Ben Colen photo of Antonio where he is smith grinding but also …wallriding 🧠
#QSTOP10 — September 20, 2024
Limo on 9/17 — Limosine’s ’50 Flower’ Video
It has been an astonishing five years (!) since September 17th carried the promise of new Max Palmer and Cyrus footage. For those who still yearn for those simpler times, Limo’s 9/17 release fills the void.
Have often wondered as to why those curb cut gaps on the outer edges of Union Square have never made it into the city’s rotation of Spots That Really Good Skaters Skate™ — especially with 10+ years of people propping those planter grates up to the pillars — and this video addresses that concern (see above.)