The first year of the QS Cup Presented by Vans went down in Greenpoint, Brooklyn — just steps away from the onetime home of the world famous Autumn Bowl. Sixteen of the world’s best skaters were paired in an eight-race bracket, racing each other around our specially engineered pump track until only one skater was left standing with the trophy.
Photo by Pedro Raimundo
We’ve all been fans of German’s skateboarding since Logic 6, which, for anyone keeping score, came out pretty much a quarter century ago. In the time since, German has remained consistent in his approach: classic east coast aesthetics, sturdy switch crooked grinds, and an unbridled love for skateboarding that’s shines through the screen — the dude has a smile on his face even when trying to avoid the lock while tre flipping into a cellar door.
“Big Germ” is by no means the *sequel* to the aforementioned early-2000s video magazine part; Justin White already took care of that. Instead, it’s an ode to aging gracefully and never falling out of love with skateboarding, even as you get closer to 50 than 40.
Esteemed QS readers will be familiar with the Gang International think-tank from their deep coverage of the Pulaski scene, and troves of footage from office favorites like Bobby Worrest and Kevin Augustine.
Jeremy Knott and Gang’s latest video finds them sixty minutes north of D.C. — in Baltimore, digging for more crustaceous, under-seen spots than the wide granite cathedrals offered by the nation’s capital. (Anybody pulling up to Baltimore looking for a nice lil’ ledge with two ends on smooth grounds is liable to find themselves a bit disappointed.)
📷 via John Vetromile
Mike Sassano and his crew have been making videos under the PFP (“Picture Fucking Perfect”) umbrella for fifteen years. Originally based in Westchester, and expanding their imprint into the city itself, PFP6 is their first video since 2018. (For any foreign readers: those are the immediate suburbs just north of New York City, about 30-45 minutes out with no traffic.)
Back in pre-historic times (the early-2010s), when we were first making our cute lil’ tees ‘n beanies ‘n stuff, the crew at Pop Trading Company reached out to us, asking to be our first distributor in Europe, covering the Benelux zone (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) — and effectively helping propel QS goods beyond our local shop homies that were down to take the gamble on it. In the time since, they’ve pivoted away from distribution and into becoming a formal brand themselves, producing great videos featuring skaters from a pocket of Europe that might not get as much shine as some of the continent’s mega-scenes.
2024 brings them to the premiere of their first full-length video, POP.
QS is hosting a premiere of the video at The Palace Bar in Greenpoint this Thursday, August 1st @ 8:30 P.M. 21+ only. Thanks J.D!
To get hyped, Jan Maarten Sneep, also known as the mastermind behind the Memory Screen remixes, put together this iPhone mix of the POP crew for some B.T.S. from the full-length.
