skating an abandoned mental asylum in "the search for bldg.40"!

“we hit up a few abandoned spots to make this project happen but the one place we went back to constantly was a partially abandoned psychiatric center in new york state. back in 1931 the center was thriving but around world war 2, things started falling apart when unqualified workers took over for nurses who had to serve in the war. it wasn’t until the 1970s when they officially shut down a handful of the buildings on campus and they’ve just been rotting away ever since…”

- sean colello.

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skate plank!

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kickin' you hard in da balls!

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how corporations are changing skateboarding and why it matters.

illustration: lauren kolesinskas

in the past decade there has been a huge increase in the level of corporate involvement in skateboarding, and we may be returning to a form of skateboarding that steve rocco, mike vallely, mark gonzales and others desperately tried to escape in the early 1990’s.

new members within the skate community, like eric wiseman, phil knight, herbert hainer, the maloofs, gary ream, william sweedler, neil cole, and andrew kline, are all challenging what it means to be a skateboarder and how we skateboard. these men (that have probably never stepped foot on a skateboard) run or are the money behind vf corp [vans], nike, adidas, maloof money cup, woodward, sequential brands [dvs], iconix [zoo york] and park lane sports Investment banking [street league]. through their economic capital, and power outside of skateboarding they have been able to force their way into powerful positions within skateboarding and are able to directly profit off of our activity. should we care if non-skaters are allowed to hold powerful positions in our culture? should we care if skaters associate with these people and buy their products? will it change how we skateboard, how we view ourselves and how we view the world?

- lurper.

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how do you get a job in the skateboard industry?

illustration: michael giurato

let’s face it, if you have ever spent any significant amount of time on a skateboard, you have probably dreamt about working in “the industry” at one point or another. how could you not! you flip through the magazines and see these people touring the world, filming, skating, partying – you’d be an idiot if you said you wouldn’t want to do that for a living.

but how do you do it? there’s no guidebook or guaranteed way to get there. you can’t just go to grad school or college and get a major in it… so we figured we’d get in touch with a bunch of people that are successful in the industry and ask them for advice. remove the curtain and find out how they got started, what makes them tick and if it’s really as amazing as everyone likes to believe it is.

- ian michna.

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the worst yo flips of all time!

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illustration: michael giurato

if you frequent any skate park at all from time to time, you have probably seen a shitload of kids (and sometimes even adults, as much as it pains me to say) spend all day trying to get their 360 flips to have the infamous “yo flip” effect to it. but what is a yo flip you ask?

a yo flip is a 360 flip with an exaggerated front foot catch. this is usually done by catching the board with your front foot while stretching your back foot out as far back as it can go. apparently, “the more you get the back foot out, the more buttery it is, dawg.”

i’ve seen skaters go as far as landing the trick with their front foot and riding away for a full one or two seconds before putting their dangling back foot on. yo flips rarely, if ever, look good, as opposed to a naturally caught 360 flip (for example, please see kalis footage). they look contrived and unnecessary and if anything they should be banned from skateboarding. but despite this, the fad continues to thrive in skateboarding today for some odd reason...

- eric q.

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