Had a lightbulb moment when Gus sent us the above photo as a headliner option for his Five Faves to do one with Frank — not unlike how Wes Kremer’s headline photo lead to the Nick Michel edition. Brain cells! So cool.
It turns out that videos from his youth are what keep Frank young in 2025, but maybe that’s a bit of the case for everyone though, right?
📝 Interview by Adam Abada
📷 Photography by Sam McKenna, Duncan Taylor & Neema Joorabchi
Jasper Stieve dropped one of our favorite video parts of 2025 — one full of some of the most impressive two-wheeled maneuvers that have been done in this city, including an ender that was truly shocking to watch, all the more for the fact that it didn’t involve fifty stairs or him kickflipping off a cliff. We did not give the part its proper due because we were OOO at the time, but after linking what feels like a dozen Jasper parts over just a few short years, it felt worthwhile to hit him up and see how he does all that.
📝 Intro + Interview by Zach Baker
📷 Photography by Hardbody
Skateboarding, socially, is like weed. If you come across anyone in the world who …uses it, that should be intersection-enough to amenably hang out, at least for an hour or two. I’d wager a buck that, as the two [idiotic] activities have become more accepted into the mainstream, the chances of happening onto a deeper connection than that, i.e. beyond rolling around/rolling up, have slimmed.
Meeting and getting to know Eze Martinez and Emilio Dufour has been refreshing. It’s satisfying to know that this thing still has the power to forge real friendships between disparate strangers. While yes, our initial get-to-know-you banter involved such topics as ABDs and the psychosis of rolling up switch to The Sombrero, I think we’ve found other mutual interests to latch onto, and have found that we three share similar worldviews, whatever the hell that even means at this point.
It was exciting to see them do some of the stuff from “Never Enuff III” in person, and all the more thrilling to see what I hadn’t in the final product. Skating in New York is awesome, but let’s face it: it has never been harder to do something memorable on a skateboard in this town, let alone on a trip, in a couple of months, in one summer. I think these guys and E.J. made something lasting; a thing worth remark. Now I’m glad that a few more people get a chance to get to know my sick ass Rio de la Plata homies.
🔑 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.
📷 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?
