With so much discourse about what’s the “matter” with skateboarding after an unprecedented boom cycle, it cannot be ignored that skateboarding’s fortunes of just a decade past have so closely mirrored those of another institution dear to us: Canada.
Tag: Toronto
Snacks On Deck Entertainment
The Quartersnacks webstore is now live with spring goods ✨ Includes a lot of much-requested reissues of classic items (Diner & Lenox tees, Track Club crews, etc.) Also available at local skateshops worldwide. Photo via our friends @ Laquer. Thanks for your continued support in helping us do what we do ❤️
“Salvaging the ruins, slabs of granite were shipped across the ocean, turning rubble into something both relic and resurrected. These materials were then integrated into a new spot, giving rise to a form of skateboarding ‘spolia,’ [which] refers to materials that are salvaged from one structure and reintegrated into another whether for ideological reasons, practical purposes or both.” Skate Bylines has a #longform piece on the increasingly common phenomenon of classic skate spots being resurrected.
Our friends at Duplex down in Florida have a new edit up on the Thrasher site, and they continue to find more and more spots in their backyard. Jace’s opening clip is insane.
Adding Bobby DeKezyer’s “BOBCBC” part, filmed entirely at the CBC building in downtown Toronto (croski!), to the Quartersnacks One-Spot Part Map 📍 Shout out to Tomas and Bobby for actually making skateboarding look incredibly difficult, even for someone who is …incredibly good at it. We need that dose of reality from time to time ;)
A Tale of a Three-Peat Unraveled — The 2024 Bunt Jam Presented By Vans
If you’re a fan of one of the other 29 NBA teams, you spend a good portion of your time rooting against the Lakers. In every way: losses, personnel decisions, roster moves. Even if your team is eliminated — or in our case, spent a quarter-century out of contention — you could always root against the Lakers. It is the great unifier for the rest of us.
To some Lakers fans, this is just bitter envy. Classic “we rule, you suck” high school shit. But other Lakers fans find it confusing. Why wouldn’t you root for the Lakers? They’re the Lakers.
Losing The Bunt Jam — A Court-Level Perspective
📝 Words by Zach Baker
Saturday morning — or afternoon, rather — I woke up in a Hyatt Regency on King Street in downtown Toronto. My forehead had a lump. At the foot of the bed were yesterday’s blood-soaked socks. I read texts through one eye as I tongued a chipped front tooth that I swore was perfectly fine a day ago.
As a family, we moved every couple of years because my dad was a college basketball coach. He was an agent for a second, then coached the Harlem Globetrotters for two years, went on to scout for the NBA for a while, and now, he’s an assistant coach for the NBA G-League Ignite, a team without a hometown, constructed to serve the NBA’s development league and currently stationed in Henderson, Nevada. They had the most picks out of any single organization at this year’s NBA Draft. It’s kinda cool and pretty weird.
Best Caesar in Toronto
Catch the Hardbody crew on I-95 this week 💨
This is probably four clips shy of being a capital-P *part*, but our dude and Bunt Jam sharpshooter, Rezza Honarvar, has a new one for Miami’s Andrew Skateshop. Still surreal seeing tricks go down on that CBS ledge in 2023. Loved the fakie ollie, too 💪
Dustin Henry now rides for Frog. If you know anything about Dustin Henry’s extensive sponsor history, you know that it had to happen. Frog dropped a lil’ welcome video, but the real heavy hitter clips are in that Vans video Shari White has on the way…
Spezzatura and squad have a new Milan scene video out: Panorama 2.