Fans of Switch Flip: The Movie can rejoice: just as he had last year, Salomon Cardenas spent 365 days documenting every person he knew doing a single flip trick on flat. And as you likely gathered from the title, it was a regular stance frontside kickflip.
Happy New Year! Was almost about to bail and be like, “Actually, nah — Top 10 returns on the 10th, we need another week off,” but @sandprinter submitted the perfect New Years intro, so had to clock back into the office.
Usually, the typical feeling of seeing that green Appleyard school rail one-quarter of the way into the 21st century is absolute numbness, but that particular trick really kicked some life behind the eyes. The monochromatic color coordination with the spot was a nice touch as well.
As is always the case with the first edition of the year, this only reflects the past week of videos, not the full duration of our multi-week hiatus. Have a good weekend :)
Just 24 hours before we never have to talk about 2024 ever again, here it is: the annual recycled footage montage ♻ to the year’s most inescapable hits.
2024 was about Charli XCX, Cash Cobain and Antonio Durao, so naturally, those things are heavily reflected in the following video.
It was a year where we spent a ton of time at Columbus [Circle, not Park] and the flattened version of Museum. Lots of Hardbody OD video B.T.S. as well, along with the most celebrated rock fakie on a barn you’ll ever see in your life. (Maybe most celebrated rock fakie on any obstacle, if we’re being real…)
2024 was also the year that K.T. finally did the fucking lipslide to noseblunt thing he has been trying since 1997, thank God.
Thank you Jefé for filming a ton of the iPhone clips. Thanks to everyone for joining us for the ride this year. See you in 2025.
Truly an honor for QS to make Simple Magic’s year-end best skateboard writing list four times. The fact that people actually read around here means the world. Thank you, Cole. Shout out Mike, shout out Farran, shout out Adam, shout out Frozen in Carbonite.
Crazy it’s taken this long for a Muni video to get pinned onto the list… Added Brian Panebianco’s “The Final Plaza” video, which documents the final days at Philly’s Municipal Services building, to the QS One-Spot Part Map 📍 This crew’s dedication throughout the heartbreaks is truly awe-inspiring. Amazing work from all involved.
Jace Detomasso briefly spoke to Thrasher about his Reggaeton Ledges ollie, on which he dislocated his shoulder first try and had to wait a year to go back. Pretty dope how anytime Jace ollies something, people want to get him on the horn about it.
Now that the results of the 2024 QS Readers Poll have had 72 hours to sink in, we passed the data along to our correspondents, Big Hen Dawg and Joey Pops at The QS Sports Desk 🏀, to break down how they stacked up to their expectations.
(The fact we’ve had emails being like, “You guys should’ve included _____” — no, motherfucker, you should’ve included ______, because these aren’t OUR exact picks, check the methodology to see democracy at work…)
