Hot Banks Summer

Thanks to everyone who grabbed a piece of Snacks in Progress merch. We still have free shipping on all orders over $50 for the time being 📦 Shout out to the deli men who keep our lives running 24 hours.

Free has a premiere of Garrett Boozer’s opening part in Matty Hilzenrath’s all-NJ video, A $20 Of Regular. All those Peaches lines + 5050 flip back tail + the flip back noseblunt bonk on the sewer cap + the fuckin’ nose manny nollie flip on the goddamn grate bridge = one of the best Jersey parts in recent memory. We’ll be premiering a part from it this week, and hardcopies of the full thing are due out soon.

Jamie Reyes has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame 👑

Civil Skateshop’s first-ever full-length video is now live. Filmed enitrely in Rhode Island, our country’s smallest state with no shortage of crust and the occasional slab of inviting marble ;)

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You Out Of Bounds, We Touching Down Like Julio

Rest in Peace Young Scooter 💔

“The temperature in Central Park plummeted by 26 degrees within a single hour on Saturday afternoon.” Let this be a reminder to strategize when your group text is all horny to skate in t-shirts on the next 80-degree morning. Bros were running into H&M to buy thermals at 5 P.M.

The Bronze boys are back :) First new vid since November 2023! “***POST NUT CLARITY***” has a montage from the squad, a great lil’ Jordan Trahan section, a nollie hardflip that seemingly defies physics, and a full Grady Smith [!] part at the end.

Talkin’ To Me” is the new edit from Jack Held and his crew. Filming Courthouse from above really does wonders at showing how monstrous of a spot it truly is. Almost didn’t recognize it in the first few seconds of the trick. Manhattan Bridge drop-in was insane too, and shout out to that dude’s speed control at Three Up Three Down.

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NJ Report — ‘you*re amazing don’t forget it’ by Connor Cloonan

📷 Photo by Sammy Levy

“you*re amazing don’t forget it” is a New Jersey scene video by Connor Cloonan, combining the crews from Branded Skateshop in Long Branch (right next door to Wenning’s hometown), and Travel Skateshop in Rahway (…someone or other’s hometown.)

Though Jersey (and by this same token, Long Island) is famous for producing skaters that go on to be more closely associated with the mega-scenes just across the state lines, the Jersey videos that exist in an insular Jersey-fied world always feel like their own genre. Sure, there’s a couple out-of-state clips, but like, you could substantially pad the runtime with a few more day trips up to New York or down to Philly — but wouldn’t it be better to dig behind every gloomy industrial park, around every state college campus, and under every highway for morsels of gold that Freddy, Petillo, Derm and them missed? (Or revisit a NJ classic with the world record for longest running sticker?)

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