QS x Adidas Lonnnnnggg Ledge Jam @ Tompkins Recap

Way back when, we were reporting on a new skatepark across the Atlantic opening and someone left a now-immortal comment.

“I’ve always wondered what skatepark builders have against STRAIGHT FUCKING LEDGES. I live in CO and there’s a skatepark in every town with A 20 foot cradle but not a STRAIGHT FUCKING LEDGE at any of em. What are the kids gonna do with a 20 FOOT CRADLE?!?! Just build us a STRAIGHT FUCKING LEDGE and be done with it!”

In the twelve years since, anytime we have reported on a built-for-skateboarding structure, we simply had to commentate on whether or not the park, plaza, et al. included a …Straight Fucking Ledge™.

Today, more New York City skateparks have Straight Fucking Ledges™, though probably not in the abundance that a Straight Fucking Ledge™-enthusiast would want.

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Who Are Some of NYC’s Next Generation of Skaters? — An Interview With Elisa Martini & Alim Orahovac

📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Greg Navarro

It was a windy day in Maspeth, Queens when I found Alim, 17 years old, fingerboarding at New York’s only D.I.Y. fingerboard park. “Yo, imagine I film a whole fingerboard street part, but it’s on VX1000? Ima’ change the game with that one,” he said to me. I laughed, thinking about all the tape he’d have to waste. “What you laughing at, poser?” he said to me with a grin on his face. Alim is the type of kid who says what he wants.

As we got to know each other, Alim invited me out on a few filming missions with his best friend Elisa Martini, 20 years old, a skater from Jamaica, Queens. Elisa and Alim are the youngest new members of the Bronze 56K crew. For a whole year, as Alim recovered from his ACL surgery, Elisa and him invested in a VX1000 and set out to film a video. On the morning of their video premiere, I sat down with the two friends at the Brooklyn Banks to learn more about the making of “On The Corner.”

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Share Your Location — An Interview With Soo Saxton

📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Greg Navarro & Cole Giordano

You’re at a spot late at night, about to film a clip. You put your phone, keys and wallet in your bag. Two hours fly by and you’re deep in, battling this trick. You sit down to catch a breath and check your phone: 12 MISSED CALLS, 9 NEW TEXT MESSAGES from your girl. You’re cooked. It’s past 1 A.M. and your partner thinks you’re either dead, cheating or in trouble. What you doing? Maybe this could have been avoided if you just shared your location indefinitely. Or if you weren’t a skater.

I called up my brother Soo Saxton to chop it up about his new part. To give all you dedicated readers some context on who he is and his origins.

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Soo Saxton’s “SHARE YOUR LOCATION” Part

📷 Photo by Sam McKenna

Soo Saxton first came on our radar with a pair of parts by Gabe Shah back in 2022 — one of which ended with an ollie on Second Avenue that had sat as a NBD for decades. (An attempt on it first popped up in a 2001 Logic video.)

Today, we’re proud to present a new Soo part that him and Greg Navarro had been working on all year. Inspired by a late night, multi-hour trick battle that ended with him finally having a look at his phone only to see a plethora of missed calls and texts from his worried girlfriend, “Share Your Location” is the latest dispatch from the “Upper West Side Curb Club” multi-verse while we wait for Greg’s upcoming all-Central Park full-length video. Rad to see them hit nuggets that largely sit dormant between Columbus Circle and the Riverside Skatepark: the two-second bust Lincoln Center steps on Broadway, Dante Park, Straus Park, the 72nd Street 1 train stop (shout out Gray’s) and beyond.

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Head Over Wheels

Quim Cardona for the cameras, on top of some Neapolitan ice cream • 📷 via Greg Navarro

T-Funk’s financial advice to his future children: “Don’t look up to me.” He thinks Tom Scharr is trying to be Bob Burnquist, but Bob Burnquist says he himself wants to be Tom Scharr. Satan’s Drano siphoned the Hot Ones format through a satanic offshoot of 90s public access TV for their show, The Last Supper, and their first guest is Tristan Funkhouser.

Melodi dropped a quick edit for their Spitfire collab. Mostly New York clips, with a lot of homies. Quinn, Coles, Gabe ‘n them :)

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