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Wheeler Antabanez and Fred Gall’s three-part feature on finding and skating a bank of the roof of an abandoned theater in downtown Newark, New Jersey is incredible. It has everything from urban archeology (the theater closed in 1968 and has largely sat untouched besides by graffiti writers since), to skateboarding to a dash of the paranormal. Absolutely loved every second of it and pined for a time when internet content wasn’t all optimized for shortform social media.

Following Filming, the video essay YouTube channel that brought you the dive into the history of the Element flatbar, has a new one that tracks down 75 skate tricks named after the people who invented them. Yes, he acknowledges a lot of them are obsolete, but an incredibly fun and well-researched piece.

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Dancers Dance

Quartersnacks x New York Knicks x 47 Brand 🏀 hats available exclusively on our webstore at noon today. 📷 via Zach Baker. (Yes, Le Basket tees @ noon, too.)

Our dear friend Torey Goodall talks small-town Canadian beginnings, watching Palace evolve from the “Tres Trill” days to their new community center in London, and the consciousness shift against “cool guy” vibes in skateboarding, fashion and beyond on the Nowhere Fast podcast.

Alexey Krasniy does a bunch of wild shit in New York — from Blubba to random rocks on the street to a nose manny at Police Plaza that’s a shoo-in for Top 10 this week — in his closing part in the Piss Drunx video. (Yes, it’s a brand now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Is that the first time somebody did the Wade Fyfe slam hubba in Barcelona?

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Happy Monday — Hardbody’s “HJALTE, ROSS & ANTONIO” Video

If DANY was the origin story, The Hardbody Video was the proof of concept, OD was the ensemble, “NEVER ENUFF III” was compliments of the house, and “INTERLUDE” was …well, the interlude, Hardbody’s latest is the arrival. In the nearly two years since formally announcing a two-pro roster of Hjalte Halberg and Antonio Durao, they’ve been quietly stacking for this not-exactly-full-length, but effectively three-way shared part between the two of them and AM Ross Berkowitz, who might have the most lawyer-sounding / “I’d trust him with my divorce” name in skateboarding.

A journey through Copenhagen that overshoots a pitstop in San Francisco and lands back in Hardbody’s hometown of New York — right down to clips at E.J’s Avenue D childhood stomping grounds — “HJALTE, ROSS & ANTONIO” is what this city and the rest of the world needed to close out this year on a hype.

Who knew Hjalte was also Jamie Foy?

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