Words by Adam Abada
Spring is as great a time as any for reading. While reading can mean a lot of things, consider using time in the newly crisp air and blossoming scenery to read some of these books authored by skaters from the past year or so.
Category: Features & Interviews
Five Favorite Parts With Gus Gordon
Photo by Blake Matthews
Following the surprise release of Gus’ “VH18” part last month, we figured we’d give you a surprise and run down the things that make him tick ;)
Anyone else have or had a pet with a skate-inspired name?
The QS Anonymous Skateshop Survey Asks: What’s the ‘Matter’ With Skateboarding?
Words by Mike Munzenrider
Art by Francesco Pini
Do you remember that demo?
Ben Jones, co-owner of Kinetic Skateboarding, in Wilmington, Delaware, does. It was the early-90s, Toy Machine. Jahmal Williams and Jerry Fowler were still on the team. It was at a metal skatepark in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “It’s seared into my brain how hard Ed Templeton ripped,” Jones says.
Many readers of this article do remember that demo — a flashbulb moment early in on in a love affair with skateboarding that really sealed the deal — but such memories are becoming increasingly harder to make. That’s one of the takeaways from the Quartersnacks Anonymous Skateshop Survey. We reached out to 20 shops all over the United States that we have close ties with. We asked five questions, but ultimately, tried to get to the bottom of one. It began as a joke, but maybe it isn’t one? There’s a widespread refrain right now that skateboarding is “fucked.” So, is skateboarding “fucked?” …again?
Five Favorite Parts With Max Palmer
Interview by Farran Golding
Photo by Zach Baker
One of the most requested installments, for obvious reasons.
And it’s also for those reasons that we included a lil’ bonus for the legion of requesters.
Safe to safe, Max is a DLX head.
Five Favorite Parts With Etienne Gagne
When discussing formative influences, a lot of people have a tendency to shy away from complete honesty and curate a bit too much. But if we’re being real, there are far more people whose gateways into skateboarding were Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, EA Skate, Jackass, Life of Ryan and Rob Dyrdek than those who woke up with a Mind Field DVD under their pillow.
[Not that all Five Favorite Parts installments are exclusively about formative influences, but let’s face it, the majority are.]
E.T’s list is true to a generation defined by YouTube, skateboarding on TV, and skate DVDs plastic-wrapped with Tech Decks.
FWIW, when pressed for comment on who some of his favorite contemporaries are, he said Genesis Evans and Emile Laurent 