It is no secret that we were huge fansof 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.
To start this year off, we have a full part from Ish, and it also happens to begin with a 10/10 front heel, just to keep things consistent. “INERTIA” coincides with a run of boards for his Gas Giants imprint, which are only available from skate shops for the time being. (Online eventually.)
Watch out for the bros’ beverages when you’re rattling off flip tricks at the end of your line 🫡
Much commotion was made over a tre flip in 2025. After the Top 10 Desk conceded to the zeitgeist in its final dispatch of the year — rather than clawing against it like it might’ve stubbornly been inclined to do during less-exhausting years — the QS office was able to find consolation in the fact that this tre flip could be left behind in the year it had come to define.
And what better way to palette-cleanse and usher in a new year for tre flips than… over a hundred new tre flips?
“Excuse me sir, your phone and pills are on the ledge we’re trying to skate.”
As the company charter dictates, before we put the lid on 2025, we must chop up a bunch of clips from the past twelve months to the year’s defining songs. And man, is it a tremendous relief to have MexikoDro soundtracking the chilling-but-sometimes-hitting-the-bar experience in 2025. If someone can make “woke up, took a shower, got dressed” sound that fuckin’ cool, there’s no reason for you not to find the magic in the routine of your own life, yaknow? Beyond that, we’d like to welcome Tinashe back to the fold of the “Best of” edit #musicsupervision for the first time since 2014 …with a song that sounds like it’s right out of 2014 (in a good way, obvs.) And if you didn’t hear “Shake It To The Max” seventeen billion times this year, you didn’t leave your house. Here’s one more.
Otherwise, we filmed Antonio and K.T. do seventeen billion switch tre’s, went to Lisbon, and got stuck at the Banks more than once. Thanks everyone for rocking with us this year, and thanks to Jefé and K.T. for filming a bunch of the phone clips. See everyone in 2026 ❤️
(There was some fuzzy audio shit in a couple of the clips I couldn’t figure out, but December 30th isn’t a day for troubleshooting. It’s an edit for the bros, not Cannes.)
We had hit Marcello about his availability for something completely unrelated this past fall, and he mentioned he was in Rome. Now, like most Americans, if you’ve been to Rome, and stayed in the historic center that most tourists stay in, you quickly come to the conclusion that yeah, maybe Rome isn’t the best city for skate spots. (By contrast, in Turin or Milan, you can find spots pretty easy… Florence and central Naples, yeah nah.)
“You’re going on a skate trip …to Rome? Interesting?” seems like a common reaction to many of us who don’t know any better, but it turns out we’re all idiots.
Watching this edit, our first reaction was, “these spots are …in Rome?!” Turns out a lot of things change when you leave the historic tourist center. Shocking, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
