Naquan Rollings Archives

Second City Hangover

Daily News May 4th, 2026 · 12:00 am

The Do Or Die D.I.Y. in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn is holding a GoFundMe for their next series of builds. If you don’t know about the space, Jenkem did a video profile of the crew earlier this year.

You gotta wonder what the reply rate would be if you hit your widest-spanning group chat suggesting you skate a …concreted-barrier-turned-spine under a bridge in Pittsburgh that you gotta shovel snow off of — at night. Those are the sorts of lifers found in Wyatt Nicholas’ One Jagged Loaf video out of Pittsburgh, with parts from Jay Pitser, Alex Nivison and Eli Campbell. Love the nollie flips in this one.

Weekend Viewing — Naquan Rollings’ “Roadkill: Episode 4” Video

Video March 13th, 2026 · 2:30 pm

📷 Photo by Mike Heikkila • Roadkill ‘zine available here

Have you been waiting your entire life for P. Tricky to open up a video?

Something — the universe, fate, astrology — is saying today may be your lucky day. Maybe!

Naquan Rollings took the “Roadkill” series over to his YouTube channel for the latest installment. (The first three are over on Thrasher.) It features part’s worth of footage from Chucky Lane, Pero Simic, Jiro Platt and Christian Henry, and frequent appearances from Nikolai Piombo, Carl Aikens, Ish Cepeda, Mark Suicu, and many more. It is a half New York / half Paris project — actually, maybe it leans a lil’ heavier on the hometown clips.

At Benihana’s Asking Where The Rice Went

Daily News March 9th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 2

The city is likely proceeding with building the skatepark in Mount Prospect Park after a long battle (there is one final meeting left on April 9), but at a reduced scale, “from 44,000 square feet to 19,500 square feet” — as revealed at the latest town hall. Looks like a transition-heavy design with some street on the side. Can we start holding hearings about getting a Born Plaza in this city before we’re all dead?

“Columbus Circle?” “No!!!” Feel much better about the future of street skateboarding in this city after watching Luca Mayer’s “$100 Chill” episode: they play S.K.A.T.E. inside subway stations, bumrush spots inside Wall Street offices, and then he spends most of his hundo on buying Bar Pitti for the gang. (QS is anti-Bar Pitti, but for reasons unrelated to Luca’s generous gesture.)

Steep Bank To Sprinter Van At The Bottom

Daily News February 9th, 2026 · 12:00 am

3 out of 6 Monday Links headlines this year have featured snow • 📷 via Greg Navarro

We love all civic-minded skate media: Bubble has a 33-minute documentary about the legacy of Sants Plaza in Barcelona, which was demolished a year ago.

Coda dropped a new all-NYC edit over on Skate Jawn. Shanahan rolled in on it to start a line (see #21), but that’s the first time someone treated those amphitheaters at the Citi Field benches as a bank, right? Crazy.

“I just don’t even know no more. For me, if it doesn’t feel like the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, it doesn’t feel like I got a clip.” Really enjoyed Naquan’s 10-minute raw reel of Nikolai clips from his Venture part. Lol’d @ him being shocked at the board having the audacity to go into the water on that nosegrind. Occupational hazard for a Floridian skater, though.

Yesterday’s Legs Are Not Today’s Legs

Daily News February 2nd, 2026 · 12:00 am · 1

#tfreport via K.T.

This. Is. Cinema 🎬

Jenkem profiled the Utica D.I.Y. in Bed-Stuy and the people who make it possible. Anytime there’s footage of dudes buying concrete, I think about the time a Home Depot employee told the Shorty’s Newark dudes that they “look like Kings of Leon” while concrete shopping.

Added the Federal Plaza section in Polymer’s Lighter Than Air video — filmed entirely at the …Federal Plaza in Akron, Ohio — to the One-Spot Part Map 📍 Didn’t know Akron had it like that.

Naquan Rollings’ “$$$nine” edit is an all-L.A. outing with a mini Thomas Dritsas part + a heelflip surprise saved for the end.