Let’s get our most sacred annual tradition underway: running down the minutiae, tricks, laughs, spots, and bathroom renovations that defined the year in New York skateboarding.
Category: Features & Interviews
Five Favorite Parts With Will Marshall
📝 Interview by Adam Abada
When we were chatting with Will for his interview that ran back in September, we stayed on for a bonus Five Favorite Parts epilogue to keep on ice. Given Will’s closer in the latest Augustin Giovannoni-helmed Dime video, this week felt as good of a time to drop it as any ;)
Who Are Some of NYC’s Next Generation of Skaters? — An Interview With Elisa Martini & Alim Orahovac
📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Greg Navarro
It was a windy day in Maspeth, Queens when I found Alim, 17 years old, fingerboarding at New York’s only D.I.Y. fingerboard park. “Yo, imagine I film a whole fingerboard street part, but it’s on VX1000? Ima’ change the game with that one,” he said to me. I laughed, thinking about all the tape he’d have to waste. “What you laughing at, poser?” he said to me with a grin on his face. Alim is the type of kid who says what he wants.
As we got to know each other, Alim invited me out on a few filming missions with his best friend Elisa Martini, 20 years old, a skater from Jamaica, Queens. Elisa and Alim are the youngest new members of the Bronze 56K crew. For a whole year, as Alim recovered from his ACL surgery, Elisa and him invested in a VX1000 and set out to film a video. On the morning of their video premiere, I sat down with the two friends at the Brooklyn Banks to learn more about the making of “On The Corner.”
Five Favorite Parts With Grant Yansura
🔑 Intro + Interview by Adam Abada
📷 Photo by Cade Meyers
A lot of times, when we first ask people to partake in this series, they clam up; they can’t narrow it down to their actual five favorites. The spirit, however, is not to pin down everyone’s all-times, but get an understanding of influences.
By his own admission, videographer and WKND head honcho Grant Yansura said that if he were to actually pick his five favorites, it would be the same ones everybody says (you could probably guess em all – yes, Jake Johnson in Mindfield was one.) Without any further prompting, however, he coughed up a different set of five parts that he loves equally as much.
Share Your Location — An Interview With Soo Saxton
📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Greg Navarro & Cole Giordano
You’re at a spot late at night, about to film a clip. You put your phone, keys and wallet in your bag. Two hours fly by and you’re deep in, battling this trick. You sit down to catch a breath and check your phone: 12 MISSED CALLS, 9 NEW TEXT MESSAGES from your girl. You’re cooked. It’s past 1 A.M. and your partner thinks you’re either dead, cheating or in trouble. What you doing? Maybe this could have been avoided if you just shared your location indefinitely. Or if you weren’t a skater.
I called up my brother Soo Saxton to chop it up about his new part. To give all you dedicated readers some context on who he is and his origins.