Thrasher Magazine Archives

‘Where Were You When I Was [Pop] Shoving In The Sleeveless?’

Daily News April 21st, 2025 · 12:00 am

Thanks to everyone who grabbed something from the webstore Should be caught up on shipping orders soon. Available at skateshops worldwide now.

Everyone who has logged years skating Tompkins has an immediate answer to “what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen walking into the Tompkins bathroom?” Let’s see if the $5 million they put into renovating it keeps it from becoming the tenth ring of hell again. Now open!

“Yeah, I think that when you show everything, it allows more people in. There are people I know who don’t skate who have watched this and for them it’s like a hero’s journey or something: You’re watching someone go through something, and you can maybe sympathize with me, or maybe think I’m insane, but you get that I’m trying really hard to do something. You don’t need to understand the context for the tricks to get that.” The menswear SubStack, Blackbird Skyplane, got the elusive Bobby DeKeyzer on the horn for an interview about his new part.

R.I.P. Metrocards

Daily News March 24th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

Congrats to Nelly Morville on the pro board for Limo!

Angel Fonseca and the Papi Brand dudes up in The Bronx dropped a new bro cam edit called “Dude, Where’s That Spot,” which’ll have you asking… “dude, where’s that spot?” So fire how nobody skates the downtown Brooklyn skatepark, but you’ll still see that curb down the stairs pop up in edits as a street spot.

Paul Young has been uploading single parts from his Down By Law video, on the occasion that you want a micro-dose: Luke Malaney + the Traffic team, Arty Smith, Grady Smith, German Nieves, Justin Helmkamp, Chachi/Mind Bender/Dustin, Josh Wilson, Vin Perso.

Damn That’s A Wrap, Boys

Daily News December 30th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 2

Truly an honor for QS to make Simple Magic’s year-end best skateboard writing list four times. The fact that people actually read around here means the world. Thank you, Cole. Shout out Mike, shout out Farran, shout out Adam, shout out Frozen in Carbonite.

Crazy it’s taken this long for a Muni video to get pinned onto the list… Added Brian Panebianco’s “The Final Plaza” video, which documents the final days at Philly’s Municipal Services building, to the QS One-Spot Part Map This crew’s dedication throughout the heartbreaks is truly awe-inspiring. Amazing work from all involved.

Jace Detomasso briefly spoke to Thrasher about his Reggaeton Ledges ollie, on which he dislocated his shoulder first try and had to wait a year to go back. Pretty dope how anytime Jace ollies something, people want to get him on the horn about it.

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.

Summer Starts in August

Daily News September 16th, 2024 · 12:00 am

Jack Sabback @ CBS, 20 years ago • via Matt Swift. Memory Screen had a fire #tbt post of Jack the other day, too.

The rumors are true, yes. We’re bringing The Quartersnacks Cup back this year, but with Vans. It’ll be more public. More info coming soon ;)

Shaquille Waite put together a thorough initial #tfreport of the re-done ground with his crew. It’s so …green! The fakie frontside flip over the bump-to-bar was nuts.

“Skaters who think they smoke a lot of weed have nothing on hockey players.” Una Farrar is the latest subject of Skate Jawn‘s “$100 Chill” series — except it’s about $120 Canadian! (Somehow, it’s actually like $135CAD…)