Max Geronzi’s “No Fixed Address” Part

After a tenure in Barcelona as a figurehead of the seminal Gronze franchise (we’re huge fans of the Gronze-ian extended fam), Max Geronzi has been on the move.

“No Fixed Address” bounces between Paris, Marseille, a couple alleyways and tight run-ups in Japan, plus a bit of boomeranging back to Barce to put together Max’s first solo part in what feels like a minute.

And as firm believers in the axiom that the nollie tre is the 4th best form of tre flip, that has to be the most beautiful nollie tre ever, no? Without even a real nose on the board!

Filmed and edited by Augustin Giovannoni.

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Man V.S. Cobblestones — Abel Bourbouze’s “CTRL+Z” Part

We didn’t know much about Abel Bourbouze‘s skating until his Vague part that dropped last winter, and featured some of the most cobblestone-forward Parisian skating in an already cobblestone-friendly era for the city’s skate scene. The opening seconds of his latest, “CTRL+Z,” arrived with audible gasps around the main monitor at the QS submission desk, and didn’t let up until the final marble descent.

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New Jersey: The New Manny Capital Of America? — Hugh O’Hare’s “Just Enough” Video

New Jersey is #1 in many things: K-12 education, population density, bar pies, skaters who go on to be more synonymous with Philly or New York. But one thing people have historically not looked towards New Jersey for, is manuals. It makes sense that a style of skating born on cement islands amid SoCal parking lots would not necessarily incubate as well in a place whose state emblem features Fred Gall.

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It’s Never Just The Trick — Ben Kadow on His ‘Hockey IV’ Ender

It is no secret that we were huge fans of Ben Kadow’s ender in last year’s Hockey IV video. Here was a spot that he had boardslid nine years ago, Suciu got a cover on, and had disappeared — except for the other side. And with the remaining rail, you had to figure there wasn’t a whole lot going down outside of the ollie-up boardslides and ollie-up 5050s that had already been etched into the scroll on the adjacent end of the stairs.

Oh, and there was the whole matter of the planter.

About that planter…

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