Ryuhei Kitazume Archives

Preseason Already

Daily News October 5th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 1

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.

Please Send Ryuhei Kitazume To All The Ledges

Daily News September 28th, 2026 · 10:18 pm · 1

Stick around long enough, and you’ll notice how things happening remind you of things that happened. In Ryuhei Kitazume‘s new part, you might clock the peak-Transworld video style voiceover waxing poetic about the magic of ledges like it’s Kalis talking about Love in ’96, the Y2Kish jump-cut editing reminiscent of The Reason, or the music video that cuts halfway into the part. But Shinpei Ueno and the minds at Tightbooth have always ran this style.

No, the thing reminiscent of another time is that they’re trying to make a skate video feel Big. Or at least Bigger than they’ve felt in a while.

Five Favorite Parts with Ryuhei Kitazume

Features & Interviews June 26th, 2024 · 12:00 am

🔑 Intro & Interview by Farran Golding
📝 Photo by Changsu

Ryuhei Kitazumi had one of the coolest looking and sounding video parts of last year in Tightbooth’s LENZ III. His style and approach were born out of the black marble of the Japanese seaside plaza, Sega Mae, where the local Chatty Chatty crew set a precedent he keenly studied and would lead to finding kindred spirits all around the world.

Reporting From the World’s Greatest Skate Spot — SID’s ‘STA’ Video

Video September 6th, 2023 · 12:00 am

Five years ago, after returning from a trip to Prague, we reported that Stalin Plaza — by our estimations — is probably the greatest skate spot in the world. In the time since, we’re still confident in that superlative, and many friends who have gone on to make the pilgrimage themselves have echoed our review.

The SID crew out of Prague came onto our radar for the complete opposite reason. When we had been in the Czech capital, the locals that we crossed paths with tended to say “there’s spots …if you have a car” regarding places to skate beyond the plaza that looms over the city’s scene. SID’s August 2021 “Prager” edit was the first Prague video we recall that featured footage in the region from everywhere but Stalin Plaza (besides the ender.)