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Daily News November 11th, 2024 · 12:00 am

Got a few pairs of the QS x Vans MC96 shoes back in the webshop for the holidays 🔵🟢

A behemoth of a Washington D.C. video [Runtime: 51 minutes] from Statue: Public Service 2024, featuring Mason Padilla, Nabeel Nelson, Rashad Murray, Yoonsun Shin, and many more faces out of the DMV scene.

…andddddd a behemoth of a Syracuse, New York video [Runtime: 40 minutes] from Johnathan Edinger: The 9-5, featuring parts from Reed Schuster, Jordan McGriff, Javaris Williams, A.J. DeStefano and many more.

“Fun fact: One of my childhood heroes unfollowed me on Instagram after this interview came out.” Chops shared a list of his favorite interviews that he has done over the course of Chromeball. Ryan Hickey and Oyola almost “coming to blows” over a CBI interview is wild.

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‘Nice To Meet You, I’m Pro’ — Andrew Wilson’s Krooked Pro Part

Daily News November 8th, 2024 · 12:00 pm

Over here at QS HQ International, we have been posting Johnny Wilson’s videos for a long time. Like 12 years or something. We were by no means the first ones to start pushing them out to the ether — we first caught them off Skate Jawn back in like ~2012 (show of hands: Space Heater? Skate Video?) — but they’ve been a fixture around here since before, like, Instagram had video capabilities and shit.

The momentum from those videos helped fuel the skate careers of Cyrus, Max Palmer, Nik Stain et al., in addition to companies like 917 and Limosine, which provided an additional platform for their skating. But Andrew — Johnny’s just-slightly older brother — always went by his own beat, clocking one of the best parts in each and every one of those Johnny vids. Drew briefly rode for an early stage Alltimers before hopping over to Polar for an extended stay, and ultimately finding himself on Krooked, which blessed him with a pro board that has been long, long overdue.

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Meditations on Crust — Traffic Skateboards’ “It’s Completely Fine” Video

Daily News November 4th, 2024 · 3:10 pm · 1

The blue collar skateboarding stalwarts over at Traffic released their latest project, It’s Completely Fine: The Toynbee Project late last night. Features full parts from Kevin Coakley, Chris Teta, Hiroki Muraoka, Luke Malaney, Josh Feist and James Sayres, in addition to appearances from the rest of the crew in between. If you pay close attention, you might even spot a pre-Lasik Keith Denley emptying out his backlog of glasses clips.

Anyone who has seen a Traffic project before knows what to expect: rather than hinging their productivity on the rotation of shit that’s in all the other east coast videos, they find, restore and battle a cornucopia of asphalt inclines and cracked cement. You can practically see the flashbacks of all the attempts it probably took Coakley to roll away from that ender back tail as he’s still rattling down the bank. You’re not going to catch much by way of Big Screen, Muni or Pulaski clips, and when something like the Albany plaza does show up, it’s with a third-eye open.

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Skate Smarter Not Faster

Daily News November 4th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

Central Park 📷 via Troy Stilwell

New York residents: You can find your pollsite here if you have not voted yet 🗳 If you live somewhere else, you can find your pollsite here.

“It’s not, ‘I don’t know man, I was just skating.’ That answer drives me nuts.” Our correspondent Farran Golding recently launched what he dubs as the skate-version of Longform.org: Skate Bylines. It is a new platform that aggregates and features works of skateboard journalism, rather than focusing 98% on video, like many of us do. Skate Bylines also creates unique pieces of its own, with the first feature being an interview with Chops from Chromeball about his interview process with history’s most legendary skaters. Also, R.I.P. Longform, but long live Longreads. Haven’t gotten on a flight without loading up the reading list with Longreads links in 10+ years. 🫡

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