Skater Shawn from Ohio (@punks.sticks_) battles gravity, concrete, and his legs, to land his first kickflip. He had this to share about the haunting process, “every fail made me try again over and over again without end to the point where I was about to pass out from exhaustion”. Shawn
What is gothic and what does it mean to be a goth?This very question has been the source of many disagreements and no small amount of gatekeeping, and I think everyone who may have ever identified as goth (or presented as distinctly gothic while vehemently denying any association, which happens
How and where did you get into skating? My eldest brother skated a bit in like 89-90 so that was my first introduction to it, but it was around the end of 1995 when I was at Wellington High School that I really started to get into skating, that Christmas
Written by Toby brocelbank and Aya Birt There’s an inherent masochistic association with skate parks and street skating. A general understanding that one day you’ll push a little too far and end up kissing the pavement or twisting a limb the wrong way. For some people that’s the point. Injuries
Where and how did you learn to skate? Haumoana – Hawkes Bay,Taking my board to Intermediate and rolling down some pathways was the first trick and then acid dropping off small curbs. Then got more serious a couple years later around 14-15 a friend leant me a Santa Cruz video
by Toby Brockelbank & Patrick Kigongo Nexus are stoked to have the chance to interview Uganda Skate Society. Absolute shredders with one of the gnarliest parks we’ve ever seen. Massive shoutout to Gose Gerald for his kindness and being so keen to work with us. Nexus also thank Patrick Kigongo
by Toby Brockelbank and Mykhaylo Tevkun Who are you and what’s your favourite skate trick?My name is Mykhaylo Tevkun—people call me Mike T. I’m the founder of Association Skateboarding Ukraine (@skateukraine), where I’ve been leading the charge for over a decade. I’ve got more than 20 years of experience as
When, where, and how did you start skating? As a kid I rode this plastic orange 70s skateboard down a steep ass hill, ate shit, ripped up my skin, blood everywhere and thought, I’m not letting this thing beat me- so I mastered it. How’d you get into filming and
How did you get into skating?Grew up next to a skatepark in Ventspils, Latvia! Tried inline, skate and bmx and stuck with skating! Who were your first sponsors?Local skateshops in Riga – Champion & Boards. lv would give me element boards and es shoes! How’d you go pro?Skateboarding a lot,
Skateboarding video content is difficult to typologise, is it B-roll film, Cinema proper, YouTube content, or a Deluezian multimedia nomadic “assemblage”? Given its recent addition to the cultural landscape, and relatively minimal academic treatment thus far, I attempt to analyse skateboarding film in its style, form, and as a system