For the past, idk, ten months maybe — Antonio Durao has been referring to everybody as “O.G.” It didn’t matter what your age was, you were O.G. The dude pulling up to Tompkins? “O.G.” The cashier at the store? “O.G!” An actual O.G? “O.G!!!” O.G. Anunoby? OMG.
Things come together in cosmic ways, because the name that he matched up with from the mystic Quartersnacks Knicks hat was the O.G: Dennis Busenitz.
Back in the fall, when a couple of Adidas heads were in town for the Long Ledge Jam, we had an idea to get a few of them and a few local-based friends to do a casual, multi-person game of S.K.A.T.E. over the Flushing grate flat gap. Here was a spot that you could run single clips over in your part maybe ~25 years ago, but in the ensuing quarter-century, pretty much every single flip trick imaginable had been done. It is probably up to par for some talented skaters to get competitive over. Unfortunately, due to a few logistical issues, it didn’t work out in the fall.
Last month, however, we made it happen. We got eight skaters to Flushing by noon! That was a miracle in and of itself.
While Portugal remains one of the most-pinned destinations for skate travel in the post-pandemic years, the leading light for what the local scene has going on has been provided by Lisbon’s Cybercafé Skateshop.
It is no secret that we love a part shared between best friends, so today we are proud to present their latest: “JOGO DUPLO,” which is a joint part between best friends Daniel Crespo and Luis Ceita, who grew up skating together in Barreiro, a city across the river from Lisbon.
Today is Tony Hawk’s birthday.
But it is also Danny Brady’s birthday.
Wait, so it’s still Tony Hawk’s birthday, twice.
So much effort, money, etc. is spent avoiding being here the first two months of the year, but then March hits, and levels of low morale you once thought were impossible to plummet to begin to surface.
What better way to feel better than to time travel to skate trips of yesteryear, yaknow?
(Yes, it’s April, but the dive happened in March, you Type A jerk.)
