Museum Hours Are Fleeting

We are hosting another Long Ledge Jam with Adidas at Tompkins next Wednesday, September 30th @ 4 P.M. 📅 Even longer ledge! Even more cash for tricks! Check the recap from last year’s to relive the magic.

“Maybe people want to see our videos, but they don’t really buy boards anymore, or they get free boards, or they don’t want to buy skate apparel or whatever; that’s all fine. I get it. But maybe they would be down to pay five bucks for a video, just to support it so that that person, their team or crew, can keep making them.” Simple Magic spoke to Grant Yansura on the eve of the UNC release to see if there’s any way you can make your money back on a video.

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Live Every Month Like It’s Banktober

📁 Some addendums to Antonio’s “Immigration” part: 1) His three enders on the World Trade stairs went down within 23 minutes. 2) BigHenDawg posted all the attempts of the switch frontside flip into the brick quarterpipe in downtown L.A.

📅 1) Alim Orahovac’s On The Corner video is premiering at Tenant on Saturday, October 11 @ 8 P.M. Flyer here. 2) Sexhippies’ Earth Mafia video is premiering at Palace Bar next Thursday, October 16 @ 8 P.M. Flyer here.

We have a homie named Piff and he’s excited about the future of the Piffskateteam. Needless to say, these fellas filed one of the best “Summer Trip To New York” edits of the season, and spent much of it on two wheels. It really ramps up a few octaves towards the end.

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The Quartersnacks Sports Desk — Back To The Banks 2025 Preview

We got our correspondents — Joel Popeteur, Big Hen Dawg and Father Bop — back in the studio for the first time this year to give a preview of this weekend’s upcoming Back To The Banks contest, which, as you likely know, is the first of its kind since 2008.

There is $10k in prize money on the line, with five different obstacle zones that’ll be moved through during the contest’s 1-5 P.M. runtime.

Our hosts break down the best of what’s gone down since the Big Banks reopened this summer, give a peak of what they’d like to see, and finally lay to rest whether the renovated-for-skating Brooklyn Banks are a skate spot or a skatepark.

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The QS Sports Desk — Analysis of the 2024 Readers Poll Results

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…)

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