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Twenty 25

Daily News January 6th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

It’s 2025 and this photo is a placeholder and/or reminder that time moves very fast • 📷 via Zach Baker, Summer 2019.

Let’s get through the remaining year-end stuff and not talk about it ever again: 1) Adjacency Bias dropped their top five 2024 videos from the Pacific Northwest skate scene. 2) Simple Magic assesses an array of very specific 2024 skateboarding predictions that were made a year ago, now that the year closed out. 3) Boil the Ocean’s #1 part of 2024 didn’t make the QS Readers Poll top 20, but it definitely should have.

Andrew Miami videographer Zoogie dropped a six-minute New Year’s edit featuring Sully Cardenas, Stafhon Boca, Coles Bailey, Elijah Odom and many more familiar faces. Gabe’s noseslide at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store might legit be the second or third clip anyone has ever got there on account of the security.

The QS Sports Desk — Analysis of the 2024 Readers Poll Results

Daily News December 27th, 2024 · 12:50 pm · 1

Now that the results of the 2024 QS Readers Poll have had 72 hours to sink in, we passed the data along to our correspondents, Big Hen Dawg and Joey Pops at The QS Sports Desk 🏀, to break down how they stacked up to their expectations.

(The fact we’ve had emails being like, “You guys should’ve included _____” — no, motherfucker, you should’ve included ______, because these aren’t OUR exact picks, check the methodology to see democracy at work…)

We’re Weaning Him Off The Aperol Now

Daily News November 25th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

“Calling It There” is a New Haven, CT-based video by Mead Franz with a good chunk of NYC clips. It feels like the Virtual Reality Bump has been popping up in more homie edits lately? Makes sense, since it’s probably been out of fashion for ~ten-ish years and you know how cycles go. Also, dude sliding down that rock bank in BPC kinda-sideways was crazy.

Love all of K-Rod’s crazy tricks obvs, but seeing Kevin Rodrigues do “normal” ol’ ledge tricks [sturdy back tail, back noseblunt pop-out…] is almost jarring to the expectations. K-Rod, Hjalte, and Dino XL (!) in this Copenhagen trip edit by Nico.

“My mom once sent my grandma a picture of a young Jake Johnson, and she replied, ‘Aww, I love Shane.'” Heckride interviewed Atlanta’s Shane Farber.

All The Way To The Top

Daily News November 18th, 2024 · 12:00 am

HD #tfreport via 📷 via Greg Navarro

“Editors are busy, and like I said, mired down in nonsense. It sucks, but it’s the state of the media.” Skate Bylines has a mega-feature about pitching articles, features, etc. to skate publications, featuring insights from many names who have been published on QS before. [Gonna use this space to apologize to anyone whose pitch we may have not got to in the past. It is never a personal thing, and it’s truly an honor getting a pitch from someone wanting to spend their time to contribute to QS each and every time.]

Boil the Ocean makes the case for all the inevitable S.O.T.Y. contenders.

“So it’s kind of funny that, you know, the quote unquote ‘underground’ doesn’t really exist in skateboarding anymore because everything’s so well seen. You can’t really even say we’re an ‘underground’ brand or anything like that. We’re just doing what we’ve always done.” Village Psychic interviewed the crew behind Traffic Skateboards, on the occasion of their new video.

Life With No Curfew

Daily News November 11th, 2024 · 12:00 am

Got a few pairs of the QS x Vans MC96 shoes back in the webshop for the holidays 🔵🟢

A behemoth of a Washington D.C. video [Runtime: 51 minutes] from Statue: Public Service 2024, featuring Mason Padilla, Nabeel Nelson, Rashad Murray, Yoonsun Shin, and many more faces out of the DMV scene.

…andddddd a behemoth of a Syracuse, New York video [Runtime: 40 minutes] from Johnathan Edinger: The 9-5, featuring parts from Reed Schuster, Jordan McGriff, Javaris Williams, A.J. DeStefano and many more.

“Fun fact: One of my childhood heroes unfollowed me on Instagram after this interview came out.” Chops shared a list of his favorite interviews that he has done over the course of Chromeball. Ryan Hickey and Oyola almost “coming to blows” over a CBI interview is wild.