We have written before about the assortment of textures that come together to make Lisbon’s skate spots. In just the opening minutes of Lucas Marques’ part in Call Me When U Get Home, you encounter an asphalt lump into a sliver of diamond-plate, a brick volcano outlined by cobblestones, plus a line that starts with grinding on glass and ends with a wallride on marble. Next, you’ll notice they don’t even bother hitting the more perfect famous spots recognizable to outsiders. Feels like they’re leaving those to us tourists. Where’s the …friction?
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Jack Sabbath
Dubbed by Boil the Ocean as “the patron saint of clipping up,” this man from Tim Savage and co’s Free Game video has our vote ❤️
Readers Poll voting opens later today… 🗳
Max Hull put together a great recap of the Light Rail Riot / Friendsgiving Jam at the Hole Bowl in Newark. Kinda figure these guys are going to be doing these every year. (For those who don’t know, the Hole Bowl is the successor to the belated Newark Shorty’s D.I.Y.)
SOAP OPERA is a new Rochester scene video from Michael Breitmaier (you may recall his Memoir video from 2023), featuring parts from Adam Kerrick, Justin Grzechowiak, David Kimball and more. Lots of beautiful VX upstate crust, some downstate trips, and Euro excursions. Something about that Berlin manny pad spot feels like it’d fit in upstate New York.
Vague has a premiere of Neil Herrick’s part in Tristan Mershon’s new video, Singer Tower. Loved the Police Plaza choreography and the unlocking of the out ledge at Brick Nine.
Texture Report — Cybercafé’s ‘1500 DIAS’ Video Out of Lisbon

Hard to think of a city whose spots contain as vibrant of an array of surfaces as Lisbon. You have the limestone Portuguese pavement that they’re famous for, but also a symphony of shitty bricks, worn-out asphalt and plain ol’ cobblestones all careening around maybe a sliver of smooth marble — oh and, there might be a tree waiting for you at the bottom of the bank.
As a result, Portuguese skate videos — which have become an omnipresent fixture on the front pages of Free, Grey, Vague, Pocket, Bubble et al. — have honed this unmistakable look that keeps them wholly distinct from all the other European scenes. There’s an extra ASMR-ness to the footage; that one longass slappy 5050 down the curb has to be one of the most satisfying clips in recent memory. Some of the other clips are masterworks in precision and timing.

