Features
Toby Brockelbank

“Feeling The Skateboard” Uganda Skate Society

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

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Features
Toby Brockelbank

Something Solid to Stand On:Ukraine’s Raw Skate Scene

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

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Interviews
Toby Brockelbank

Behind The Camera:Brett Chan

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

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Interviews
Guess Writer

Ritual Grinds

by Paul O’Connor My big passion is nudging people to see skateboarding a little bit more mytho-poetically. Sure, riding on a board is fun and playful. It doesn’t have to be more. My answer is that this is precisely why it ‘is’ more. The fact that the object and intent

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Nina Pacheco

America Has a Problem

Remember the massive peaceful Los Angeles ICE protests that went on in June? Because that shit has been STRIPPED from media. At though the protests in LA and several other states somehow seem to have vanished into thin air, this is not the case at all. Think, hundreds of people

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Sarah Smith

SOUTH KOREA ABOLISHES PRIVATE ADOPTION AFTER ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS

Since 1955 around 170,000 South Korean children have been essentially exported to foreign countries for adoption. In March of this year, the South Korean government admitted responsibility for facilitating this exploitative industry. An investigation into human rights violations within these adoption agencies was launched by the South Korean government in

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Toby Brockelbank

The Meaning of Skateboarding Film

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

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Editorial
Toby Brockelbank

Editorial – Issue 19 2025

By Toby Brockelbank & Mykhaylo Tevkun Stake and Destroy Most of the reason I was stoked on this job was to write about the skate scene, share cool shit I thought was going down in our world of grinds and flips, and convince at least one of you readers to

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