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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Unearthing 90s Skate & Hip-Hop Footage With Jacob Rosenberg – JENKEM

Craving a history lesson but don’t feel like paying for a museum ticket? An afternoon with Jacob Rosenberg that’s part career retrospective and part house tour just might satisfy that itch. You might know Jacob from his historic run with Plan B, creating videos like Questionable, Virtual Reality, and Second Hand Smoke, but did you know about his work with Del the Funky Homosapien, De La Soul, and other quintessential 90s rappers?

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Hanging Out With Andrew Huberman, Skateboarder Turned Neuroscientist – JENKEM

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist who exploded in popularity through his podcast, where he breaks down complex science topics in a digestible way. If you’ve tuned in before, you may have also heard inklings about Andrew’s skateboarding past. Jenkem was curious to learn more about it and see the guy outside of the stuffy podcast studio they’re accustomed to, to get a sense of what he’s like when he’s not “on.” After a couple of texts, Andrew invited us over to his home in LA, where we were welcome to attempt his sauna and cold plunge, check out his old mags, and muck around his backyard.

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Reimagining The Skate Video, A Talk On Mike Ternasky At Museum Of The Moving Image – JENKEM

The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY celebrated the opening of its new exhibit “Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos” last month. Curated by longtime skate videographer Jacob Rosenberg and Michaela A. Ternasky-Holland, filmmaker and daughter of Plan B’s Mike Ternasky, the show focuses on the videos defining skate videography’s stylings.

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JENKEM Checked Out The $2000 Game of Skate in Tompkins Square Park

Last week FA and Cons threw a $2000 game of SKATE called “The FA Flatground Entertainment Invitational”. In the end Myles Underwood, Dylan Clark and Salomon Cardenas all fought valiantly against flatground final boss Antonio Durao for their shot at walking away with a thick envelope. Watch along as cancel flips, switch lasers and other rare tricks stack up on Tompkins freshly painted concrete.

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Hunting Down a Remote Quarterpipe in an Abandoned Desert Town – JENKEM

Two hours outside of LA is a place called Bombay Beach. This area was a popular resort town for beachgoers and celebrities until the ’80s but due to a destroyed ecosystem what’s left these days looks closer to a Mad Max scene than anything else, with streets populated by loners and outcasted creatives. Jenkem caught wind that someone was building some DIY skate spots out there, so they decided to let their imagination get the best of us and checked it out.

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JENKEM – Life After Skating: The Couple Behind Buddies Coffee In NY

At some point, every pro skater is faced with the age-old question of, “What’s next?” And for Taylor, coffee was a chance he was willing to take. Being that Jenk HQ isn’t too far, Jenkem stopped in one day and the coffee drinkers in the crew were impressed. A week later they linked up with the duo in Brooklyn to get the behind-the-scenes on how their new endeavor is shaping up.

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The Search For Steve Rocco, OG Skater & Founder of World Industries – JENKEM

If you know Jenkem, you know this is about as close to a magnum opus interview as there ever was. Steve, along with being a pioneer of 70s, 80s and early 90s skateboarding, owned World Industries, and spearheaded the street skating movement alongside some of the best skaters around at the time. After many years we Jenkem was finally able to get Steve in on an interview and damn, this feels good to write. Raise a glass, ’cause they did it, baby.

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Fred Gall & The Origins of One of New Jersey’s Longest Standing Board Brands

We met up with Fred Gall, Lou & Donny Binaco to discuss Metal, a skate brand they started in 1994 out of New Jersey that’s still running today. Birthed from one too many acid trips, late night skate sessions, and a desire to start a no frills, evil skate company out of the East Coast, Metal is a part of skateboarding history often forgotten.

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