Preseason Already

Why the hell is there already a Knicks preseason game tonight? We just won last week…

Naquan Rollings posted up his edit from the L.E.S. Park skate jam dedicated to the memory of Marquis Blondel ❤️

“Cities hire ad agencies to craft entire campaigns to woo tourists. The skate shop video as a genre achieves the same thing powered by a handful of skaters placed somewhere around their late-teens and into their early-20s, a couple of responsible adults, and a steady flow of price-point shop decks.” Ian Browning wrote about the enduring power of skate shop videos for Closer. (Loosely related / ICYMI: A QS piece we did on the enduring power of shop …tees.)

Gabriel Fortunato with two lines @ the Fulton Street Subway stairs. Must be nice.

Fuck This Industry posted up a vlog from their trip through New England to Genuine Risk Lane. Includes Coles Bailey footage, yes.

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Richmond Legend Will Marshall

GOODNIGHT IRENE is the new video from Dais Skate Co., and it might be the widest net of local spots maybe ever? Oh, going to The Bronx is deep for you this weekend? These dudes skate every single borough, upstate, Long Island, Jersey, Connecticut, Philly — literally everywhere. The filmer’s spotbook has gotta be crazy.

Of all the things QS has been a part of, being able to facilitate a bit of seed money to the D.I.Y. plaza next to the Trinity Repertory Theater in downtown Providence, Rhode Island (back in the days when Levi’s had a formal skate program and was putting $ toward’s D.I.Y’s) has to be the top of the list. Here are the renderings for what the latest expansion will be. Wow.

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Clips Regardless

Naquan Rollings posted up a four-minute dispatch from Tompkins this summer. Some Nikolai wizardry on the ledge, some psycho John Dilo mannys, and naturally, a giant NYCShawn tre.

Suciu, Cooper Qua, Nicole Hause and Jiro all skated a bunch of New York staples in a new Thunder Trucks four days in New York edit. It’s insane that after probably hours-worth of Suciu parts, he can still make you say “wtf” out loud at the screen. That 180 into the brick bank just outside the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge is insane. Same one from the crazy Alan Bell slam. (“Bro, that slam fucking sucked.”)

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BerlinMaxx

Naquan Rollings uploaded Devin Flynn’s Borough Hall back 5050 heard around the world in 16:9 to his YouTube. You know something surpasses “you have to see the spot in person” when even people who have never been there’s reaction to a backside 5050 is “holy fucking shit.” That being said, it is bound to become one of those “stop, look and discuss”-spots for years to come.

Videographer Neema Joorabchi moved to Los Angeles, and dropped an edit of footage leftover from the end of his New York days entitled “sucks huh.” A mini part’s worth of Jasper Stieve clips in there, with a handful of Fort Greene bangers.

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Roadkill in Europe — New Marcello Campanello Part By Naquan Rollings

Only two months past the fourth “Roadkill” installment, Naquan is back with a new one, this time in the form of an entirely Euro-summer’d Marcello Campanello part. Mostly filmed in Marseille, which still feels like Europe’s premier skate getaway in the post-pandemic years, the part bounces between France and Amsterdam, with guest clips from Carl Aikens and Jaïr Gravenberch, who you may know from the POP Trading Company edits.

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