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Five Favorite Parts With Grant Yansura

Features & Interviews October 8th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 2

🔑 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

Features & Interviews September 19th, 2025 · 1:30 pm

📝 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.

Gymnastics & Improv — An Interview With Will Marshall

Features & Interviews September 17th, 2025 · 12:00 pm · 5

📝 Intro + Interview by Adam Abada
📷 Photography by Jay Burles

He wouldn’t say this himself, in fact he went to pains not to – there were many a “maybe don’t air this” (a charming affect for a written interview) – for perfectly reasonable statements about his abilities, so I’ll say it about him: Will Marshall is really good at skating. And, as is often the case with such people, he prefers to let his skating do the talking. We thought it’d be good to try and get some of what makes him tick on the record, and the revelations from the mind of one of my favorites was worth the wait.

Five Favorite Parts With Ryan Lay

Features & Interviews September 9th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

🔑 Interview by Farran Golding
📷 Photo by Kyle Seidler

We got one of the stars of Sci-Fi’s Endless Beauty to chime in on the videos that help inform what he does, which reminded us that there are two types of people in this world: those who want a part with immaculate vibes, and those who want a part that sends the skater teetering on the verge of a mental breakdown. It’s either one or the other.

A Decade Of Glory — The 2025 Dime Glory Challenge Presented By Vans

Features & Interviews September 4th, 2025 · 4:00 pm

📷 Photos by Charles Rivard, Esq.

The Dime Glory Challenge turned ten this year.

If you watch that first recap video from 2015, which was in a warehouse — and feels comparatively slapped together like you had a long weekend to bring your drunk, late-night “wouldn’t it be sick if” skate event fever dream to fruition — you get the sense that everyone there knows each other.