📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photos by Greg Navarro, Kevin O’Dell & Mike Heikkila
Jeff Cecere is a filmmaker (Triple Or Nothing, This Is A Window, Mind How You Go) from Connecticut and raised in Florida, who is the creative behind the new board brand, Guest Room. I sat down with Jeff on a park bench and made a call to Caleb McNeely, the second part-owner of Guest Room to discuss the origins of their newest project ahead of their inaugural video, It’s All Perfect.
📷 via Quinn Batley
Five Favorite Parts is always at its most interesting when it’s a study in contrasts. For instance, the ledge lord being partial to crust and hucking, or the Man With The Beautiful Push curating a slate of transition parts. Efron’s part in Violet’s “SQUEAKY“ from earlier this year was a mini-movie (probably the first time I can recall a theater erupting in applause for flatground lines); Efron’s favorite parts, though …those rarely make it over the two-minute mark.
📷 via Pierre-Antoine Lalaude
TJ Rogers is unequivocally one of the hardest working skateboarders — whether the multitude of parts released last year, the one-man shoe release tour, or pulling up to the D7 Hardies jam and being the one person to knock out three tricks that had never been done before (fakie bigspin, switch front 3 and switch pop shove) — there was a case to be made for him being the people’s choice for Skater of the Year in 2025. In 2026, now embracing new fatherhood and easy to get on the line, we hit him to run down a few favorites.
📝 Words by Adam Abada
When thinking of some of the most iconic skate photos of the 2000s, it doesn’t take long to come up with an image by Mike O’Meally. O’Meally has yet to do a big glossy retrospective book encompassing his work, but in going through his archives, he had a different idea. After a 2018 photo show of symbolic imagery from his skate travels – where O’Meally donated profits to the FDNY’s Fire Family Transport Foundation – he decided he wanted to give back more to New York City, a place that helped grow his career and connection to the skate world. Mike had shot six rolls on September 12th, 2001 and thought there might be something there.
📷 Photo by Norma Ibarra
Poe had some of our favorite clips in Johnny’s “CREASED” video for SB, so we asked Poe what some of her favorite video parts are. The final selection brings it all full circle ;)
