📷 Photo by Stafhon Boca
The best parts can just be wallies and cool manuals [and a fat nollie inward], just as the best parts can also be a minute long. The latest Five Faves is with a QS fave ;)
Category: Features & Interviews
Deep Winter Book Review: ‘Skateboard Culture’ by Morgan Bouvant and Sébastien Carayol
🔑 Words by Adam Abada
QS staff meateorologist Matthew Perez informs us that 18 inches of snow is coming to New York on Sunday. Sounds like a good time to crack a book. Here’s a review of the newest and biggest skateboard book I know of.
Five Favorite Parts With Ish Cepeda
📹 Photo via @allanstoops
In the rollout to Ish’s “INERTIA” part from earlier this month, we got him on the line to run down some favorites for the first 2026 installment of Five Faves.
As usual, the request line is always open for anyone you want to see this year ;)
The Best Skate Videos & Parts of 2025 — QS Readers Poll Results
🎨 Graphic by Francesco Pini
📊 Ballot Count by 4PLY
The results are in and we now have a snapshot of skateboarding in 2025, as voted on by QS readers. Unlike past years, when there was sometimes only a few vote split between first and second place, ties, etc., for the most part, everything cleanly landed where it landed this year.
And it should be said that this listing was voted on between 10:30 A.M. on Monday, December 8th until 5:30 P.M. on Friday, December 12th. Chris Joslin’s “G-Ma” part, which would earn him Thrasher‘s S.O.T.Y. trophy, was released around noon on Wednesday the 10th. Zion Wright’s part was released the morning of Thursday, the 11th. A similar thing happened the year that Miles Silvas won S.O.T.Y. But one hill we will gladly die on is that nobody wants to talk about year-end recap stuff in the following year. We will extend eligibility to any parts that came out starting December 8th into next year’s ranking.
To anyone just joining us: This is NOT a selection curated by QS staff. Editors and contributors can vote, but this was tallied across hundreds of publicly submitted ballots. If you’re interested in the methodology, 4PLY broke down how we tally the votes ✨
“I’ve Never Done A Tre Flip Crook; I’m Never Going To Do One Again” — Johnny Cumaoglu’s Part in “SINGER TOWER” + An Interview With Johnny Cumaoglu
📷 Photo by Mike Heikkila
Many people first caught onto Johnny Cumaoglu’s skating through his friend Tristan Mershon’s Fool’s Gold video, a pandemic-era New York project released in early 2021 that had everyone from Blue Park to T.F. asking, “Where the hell are those spots?” (Bonus points if you, of course, were tapped in to the vibrant world of 2010’s New Jersey videos though.) A bit has changed since then: Johnny has a spot on the WKND roster, a recurring role in Jeff Cecere’s 2022-2024 three-peat, and he is no longer a DC Lynx absolutist.
But some things are the same. He is still filming with Tristan on a VX, and has the closing part in his Singer Tower video (his first full-length in 4+ years, hardcopies are for sale!), which we are proud to present to you today.