Let’s get our most sacred annual tradition underway: running down the minutiae, tricks, laughs, spots, and bathroom renovations that defined the year in New York skateboarding.
Tag: Columbus Circle
Waxing Ledges Is Contagious
A broken clock is right twice a day, and sometimes, Instagram subverts its mission of giving you AI shit that you didn’t ask for and shows a months-old nosegrind worthy of attention.
#spotcheck
If you’re going to Columbus …bring wax, bc they sandblasted everything and pulled the steel stick out.
Intel via Greg Navarro.
Spring in February
Photo via Chuck 📷
“That could have been me.” The Guardian spoke to several Black skateboarders — including our dear friend Aaron Wiggs, along with Harold Hunter Foundation chair + architect of The Black List, Patrick Kigongo — about their experiences in the shadow of Tyre Nichols’ murder at the hands of police.
“Yeah! At Glendale High!” Farran Golding had Nelly Morville talk over her Paymaster part about how the Limosine connection came to be + filming for their inaugural video.
Columbus Circle continues to enjoy its reign as the spot of the winter: Christian Kerr just dropped an edit with a days’ worth of Columbus footage, and yes, you get to see Gabe Tennen shred in it! It’s a foregone conclusion someone is going to drop a one-spot part from there by May, right?
Bounce With Manners
Love the trees in this one 🌳🌴 Coles Bailey by Stafhon Boca
Cyrus talks the road his pro career has taken through Polar, 917 and Limo + injury recovery in the latest installment of Thrasher‘s “Out There” series by Waylon Bone.
From New Jersey to Hong Kong and back again: Simple Magic got their Patrick Radden Keefe on and tried to track down the origins of the mysterious bootleg Bobby Puleo boards that have been popping up all over the world for two decades.
Great skate cities alert 🚨 — “CAN’T HAVE SHIT” is an 11-minute Detroit edit from Cooper Vosburg, and Baltimore Pleasure is a 20-minute Baltimore scene video by Ryan Schroeder with a fire Spencer Brown part at the end. Always great seeing footage from both of these places.