For the Love of Skateboarding
In early September, The Skatepark Project held a Back to School gear giveaway and event at The Brooklyn Banks in partnership with the Super Skate Posse, Vans, Gumball 3000 Foundation, and community-based group Gotham Park!
One hundred kids received free skateboards, helmets, Vans shoes, and tote bags filled with fun items and school supplies. The day featured skate lessons from pros, yoga for skaters, and a whole lot of stoke.
Checkout the footage behind the Brooklyn Banks 9 Stair Contest!
The bottom line is this: Back to the Banks 2008 was an event that felt like skateboarding should feel, so hats off to Steve Rodriguez from 5Boro, for stressing out and doing the generally thankless job of running a skateboarding event. It’s one of those raw deals…feeling like real skateboarding. So thanks, Steve. The Contest was broken down into four different sections: Bank-to-wall, bank-to-ledge, tranny-spine, and stairs/rail.
The TOA Top Twelve is back with a very topical Brooklyn Banks post for your quarantined eyes. Since it’s virtually impossible to make a “Best Tricks” list for a spot so historical as the Brooklyn Banks, we decided to lighten it up a bit and make a list of our favorite clips from the long, long history of the incredible spot. Although a TON of amazing stuff has gone down w/in the property lines of the Banks, we picked the clips that have either been the most memorable to us or were so amazing we couldn’t leave them off the list. And since we can’t ever make up our minds completely, we added an “Honorable Mentions” section so we could squeeze a few more into the mix to make sure we didn’t leave out any classics. Do you agree with our list? What did we forget? Let us know in the comments. – Theories of Atlantis.
In order of appearance the skaters featured are: Eric Koston, Rob Welsh, Tim O’Connor, Brian Wenning, Jamie Thomas, Austin Gyllete, Stevie Williams, Jake Johnson, Zered Bassett, Josh Kalis and Quim Cardona.
The Honorable Mentions featured are: Mike Carroll, Javier Nunez, Mark Gonzales, Quim Cardona, Josh Kalis, Gino Ianucci, Jake Johnson, Keith Denley, Fred Gall and Jason Dill.
LA, New York, office jobs, skateboarding and more. Dive into Lacey Baker’s world in the latest from Nike SB.
Ryan Schmalz skates the iconic Brooklyn Banks in this Nugg of the Week filmed by Rich Whitehead. Submit your NOTW by #SkateNugg on Instagram or emailing us at [email protected] for your chance to be the next!
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Some 4k 60fps skateboarding test footage filmed on the Panasonic GH5 at the infamous Brooklyn Banks in NYC. Featuring Ron Deily, Spencer Fujimoto and Akira Mowatt. Canon 8-15mm f/4L fisheye and Canon 24-105 f/4L zoom lens with Metabones Speed Booster Ultra (Not XL). – RB Umali.