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QS webstore deals continue into Cyber Monday baby! 🛍 Got kicks for under $50, some tees left, beanies, caps, etc. Thanks for the support as always :) $5 flat-rate shipping within the U.S.

Triple or Nothing, Jeff Cecere‘s sequel to This Is A Window and Mind How You Go, is premiering at The Woods (where else?) on Saturday, December 14th @ 8 P.M. Dedicated to Max Maffucci ❤️ Full teaser for the video here + full flyer here.

Do Less did a 14-minute video profile of Jenkem with Ian, talking about the history of the company, the pre-Instagram era, and how the North Star of starting anything on your own is finding what’s missing from the perspective of a fan, which is great advice for any discipline.

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Crab Cake Uncle

📷 via @n.rollings

The voter registration deadline in New York is this Saturday, October 26. Yes, you can register online or in person 🗳

Really enjoyed this twenty-minute dad cam edit from the Quartersnacks Cup. The angle on the last races between Nick and John is especially great for a different perspective from the other HD or iPhone videos you may have seen.

2024 QS Cup Champion, Nick Michel, has a quick new part out for Thunder Trucks, which features a beautiful full cab, among other things.

F.A. and Converse hosted a $2,000 Game of S.K.A.T.E. Invitational at Tompkins two weeks back, and Greg Navarro covered it for Jenkem. Obviously, Tony Hawk won.

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A Bad Ledge & A Plate of Salmon

Adjacency Bias, the Pacific-Northwest skate scene platform, has a new video series examining the opportunities / history created by un-used tennis courts that later become skate spots, called “The Courts.” The first episode is about Portland, Oregon’s court spot.

Nelly Morville made an iPhone edit of a Limo trip to Montreal + more. Fingers crossed Nelly’s YouTube page takes the [dormant] torch from Foghornleghorn for iPhone edits from this crew.

“Antonio Durao’s most recent challenge to skating’s understood limitations suggests a new frontier for the wallride grind, though probably one that requires a certain amount of extradimensional thinking.” Boil the Ocean pontificates on a Ben Colen photo of Antonio where he is smith grinding but also …wallriding 🧠

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Hydration Is Key

Thanks to everyone who picked up a pair of the QS x Vans MC 96 shoes ❤️ Still got 8.5’s in the green pair, a bit more of a size run in the blue ones.

After shelving the plan indefinitely after Tompkins was repaved, the Parks Department announced that it intends to paint the surface as an effort to preserve the asphalt longer. Work is slated to begin this week, but you know how that goes… #tfreport

“As one nerd pointed out, an Olympic-level skater like Yuto films a banger and people clap, because that trick is hard and Yuto did it perfectly. Antonio films a trick and people laugh, because it is so fucking insane that he did that that it may as well be a joke.” Monster Children celebrated Antonio Durao week month by interviewing the man himself.

“I get stoked if I hear someone say ‘Oh shit, I didn’t know he could skate normally.'” Jenkem interviewed another mastermind of third-eye-open skateboarding, Montreal’s Alexis Lacroix.

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