Only two months past the fourth “Roadkill” installment, Naquan is back with a new one, this time in the form of an entirely Euro-summer’d Marcello Campanello part. Mostly filmed in Marseille, which still feels like Europe’s premier skate getaway in the post-pandemic years, the part bounces between France and Amsterdam, with guest clips from Carl Aikens and Jaïr Gravenberch, who you may know from the POP Trading Company edits.
📷 Photo by Mike Heikkila • Roadkill ‘zine available here
Have you been waiting your entire life for P. Tricky to open up a video?
Something — the universe, fate, astrology — is saying today may be your lucky day. Maybe!
Naquan Rollings took the “Roadkill” series over to his YouTube channel for the latest installment. (The first three are over on Thrasher.) It features part’s worth of footage from Chucky Lane, Pero Simic, Jiro Platt and Christian Henry, and frequent appearances from Nikolai Piombo, Carl Aikens, Ish Cepeda, Mark Suicu, and many more. It is a half New York / half Paris project — actually, maybe it leans a lil’ heavier on the hometown clips.
Someone was like, “Do y’all still have that hat?!” It’s on the webstore, buddy ✅
Pero Šimić has a sick new two-minute part for Obey by Naquan Rollings, which consists of all New York clips. That ollie onto the board-width ledge was some Lennie Kirk shit, and the pillar rides at the Banks are a new dimension.
“The sheer audacity of plunking a switch backside noseblunt down the Brooklyn Banks nine-stair rail in the middle of an edit has previously been discussed.” Boil the Ocean goes through the potential 2025 S.O.T.Y. contenders. When’s the last time a vert skater was the frontrunner?
Sexhippies new video, which is a dive into the scene in western Massachusetts and a bit beyond, just went live. “Earth Mafia” has a fire opening part from Eddie Vargas Jr., appearances from Andrew Wilson, Cooper Qua, Zac Gavin and many other familiar faces.
Got told a dope story by someone during game six about how their friend got his eight-year-old, basketball-obsessed son a Josh Hart jersey, and told him a dictum along the lines of, “If you’re ever going to make it into the NBA, your best chance is learning to play like this guy.” 💙 🧡
Gabbers is Sporty & Rich in the latest installment of Skate Jawn‘s “$100 Chill” feature, which probably has the highest volume of beer purchases from any installment? 🍺
“REMOTE VIEWING” is the latest edit from Theories of Atlantis featuring a wide survey of midwestern crust. Includes appearances from QS favorites Nick Rainey, Connor Noll, Nyle Lovett + more.
Carl Aikens took a bunch of his bros on a trip to Milan and came back with this five-minute edit by Jeff Cecere and Ritt Pontepsiripong. Marcello’s flip 5-0 on that Centrale rail was too good.
📷 via @newrosecretspots • Headline is via the best Luka trade joke
Primitive Video by Thomas Albin: one of humanity’s earliest ancestors discovers an anachronistic VX1000, and mankind is immediately advanced hundreds of thousands of years into the future to the partially unknobbed ledge that sits atop a four-stair platform between the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a Whole Foods. Otherwise, a really fun homie video that keeps its sights on the Normal People Spots of this city, e.g. there’s no Courthouse and the biggest set is an eight 💪
Pulling up to the Boston Aquarium ledges [as seen in decades worth of skate videos and The Departed] as an out of towner is a shared experience. Few places have as wide of a disparity between “omg that looks so fun!” when seen on videos, v.s. the “what the actual fuck are these cracks” when you arrive like Aquarium does, so it makes sense that the locals have the best clips there. Jerry Fowler, the Godfather of Six-Figure Ledge Skating™, breaks down the history of Boston’s crackiest ledge spot alongside from a who’s who of the New England skate scene for the latest Jenkins Log.
