Getting To Know Sal Barbier, The Man Behind One Of Skating’s Most Iconic Shoes – JENKEM

If you aren’t familiar with Sal, he’s a pioneer from the 80s and 90s who has his own trick (The Sal Flip) and is credited for being the first person to kickflip boardslide a handrail. His shoe, the Etnies Sal 23 is one of the most recognized and iconic skate shoe silhouettes. Despite all this rich history, we barely know anything about the guy, so Jenkem met him in his hometown to fill in the gaps.

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Kevin Perez & Joe Monteleone | The Nine Club #354

Joe Monteleone & Kevin Perez discuss when and how they started working for Dickies, Filming & editing the Dickies “Honeymoon” video, what it’s like filming with Jamie Foy, Kevin getting a job filming for Primitive then for April Skateboards & then Dickies, starting a new board brand with Blake Carpenter called Vinyl Skateboards, how important full-length videos are in 2025 and much more!

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The Platfrm First Person: Bucky Lasek Reflects on Vans Combi Bowl a Skateboarding Mecca

The lore of the Combi Bowl has been a proving ground for skateboarders to push their limits and flaunt their style, turning the Vans Pool Party event into a legendary stage that has become part of skateboarding’s history. 2025 marked the last go at the Combi inside the Vans store in Orange, California, making some of the best transition skaters reacquaint themselves with its twelve-foot walls. To truly understand the intensity Combi brings out, we tap in with three-time Vans Pool Party champ ‪Bucky Lasek in First Person to view the preparation, mindset, and impact this bowl has made on skateboarding over the past two decades.

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“Adulthood” by Maxime Guyot – SKATEJAWN

“Adulthood” is a short independent film dealing with street skateboarding, filmed by Maxime Guyot in Nancy, Bordeaux, and Marseille.

Featuring Emilien Bonnet, Jérôme Ravillon, Yan Cordel, Max Guyot, Léon, Hervé Masson, Nico Giovannetti, Mathis Khelifi, Florent Juliac, Louis Perruchaud, Julien Glauser, Pierre Lespes, Alfie Plaxton, Julien Januskiewicz, Alexis Greusard, Sergio Santoro, Liam Courtney, Gaku Kohara, Aymeric Nocus, Colin Bonino, Elrido Bocacci, and Corentin Ohlmann.

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