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Winter X-Games? We Have Winter X-Games At Home.

Daily News January 26th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 2

Max Hull’s Hell Yeahh (Too Nice To Skate) is a masterpiece of unc skateboard cinema. It includes Gabe Tennen[‘s Wonderful Horrible Life], Conor Prunty’s salute to ten years since “422,” a Joe Scordo “My War,” Sadie BGPs, a full Luke Koch part, and so much more. If you are in your unc years or even on the cusp of unc-ness and in the midst of finding excuses to not skate on a weekend or just hit the skatepark for an hour, seeing Gabe shred should be inspo enough to commit to relearning some of your lost tricks this spring.

A reminder that Tricolor Patinetas’ 1999 video out of Mexico is essential viewing. Find your friend with the biggest screen you know, invite some friends over, bring some drinks and watch it together this week.

QS x Adidas Lonnnnnggg Ledge Jam @ Tompkins Recap

Video October 21st, 2025 · 12:00 pm · 2

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.

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

Features & Interviews October 21st, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

📝 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.”

Share Your Location — An Interview With Soo Saxton

Features & Interviews September 19th, 2025 · 1:30 pm

📝 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.

Soo Saxton’s “SHARE YOUR LOCATION” Part

Video September 11th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 4

📷 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.