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Daily News December 15th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

Stafhon Boca and a fan 🔥

“In a remarkable gesture of support for grassroots skateboarding, renowned skateboard designer Antonio Durao has fulfilled a long-held dream by donating a collection of his Hardbody deck models and essential skateboarding gear to the Uganda Skateboard Society.” Pretty sure E.J. designed those, but a beautiful collaboration. S.O.T.Y. shit. 🏆

No Jeff Cecere video this Christmas, but he’s working on one 🎅

Fuck This Industry made some decks, and to commemorate, dropped a full Myles Underwood part to much critical acclaim. (“Dis might be more influential then the el toro flip 💯.”)

Another 2025 TJ Rogers part?! Yep, Another 2025 TJ Rogers part!

Highwaymen 2025 — Ross Norman & Mike Rosa for Politic Part

Video January 23rd, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

📷 Photo by Smalls

The buddy-comedy style of filmmaking has seen better days. Case in point: the fifth installment in the Lethal Weapon series remains in Hollywood purgatory dating back to 1998. Fortunately for us, Ross Norman and Mike Rosa (with Smalls wielding the VX) resurrect the genre with a new D.C.-centric part for Politic. Ross continues his Pulaski homage to the Trilogy playbook, and Mike drops power moves including one of the upper-echelon ledge tricks. — Frozen in Carbonite

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.

It’s All Love — An Interview With Kevin Augustine

Features & Interviews April 26th, 2023 · 12:00 am · 11

📝 Intro + Interview by Frozen in Carbonite
📷 Photo by Owen Basher

I have no data to support this, but the marble at Pulaski increases one’s pop by 30 to 40 percent. However, if you inspect it closely, you’ll see a map etched into the blocks — a street plan of Washington, D.C. A.K.A. The L’Enfant Plan.

After conducting some rudimentary internet research, I found that L’Enfant, an engineer during the Revolutionary War, volunteered for the job and faxed his resume (the 1700’s version, naturally) to George Washington.

Of course, he got the job.

L’Enfant’s design brought a Euro flair to the new capital, deliberately building in a series of plazas. So, when you skate Pulaski you’re in the city, skating on a map of the city — an Inception-type scenario like the Las Vegas Raiders helmet or some shit.

ANYWAY, along the same lines, Kevin Augustine’s brand of ledge wizardry brings a flair to that world-famous speckled granite. We caught up with him on a recent trip to Puerto Rico and shot the shit about — among other things — coming up on the east coast, Call of Duty, and the life-cycle of a Dunk.

Pulaski & Beyond — ‘Marble Mile’ From The Stop Fakin’ Franchise

Daily News February 13th, 2023 · 3:01 pm · 1

One post-“retirement” project is a bonus. A second post-“retirement” project is …well, you’re just out of retirement.

Over the weekend, Smalls and the Stop Fakin’ crew dropped “Marble Mile,” their first video since the 2021 “Who Leg” (the aforementioned bonus project.) With over a decade of videos under their belts, it’s been incredible to watch the crew power through the years, refine the formula, and add new friends (including people’s kids who now skate!), but still keep the torch burning for progression at Pulaski Plaza as hard as it did in their first video. Kevin Augustine manages to come through at the end and still clock maybe his best part to date: two trick flip-in-no-push lines on the white ledge that extends out past the steps, nollie heel nose the planter, and the only non-Pulaski trick in the part is saved for the ender, as a treat.