Our Favorite Parts Of 2025 (So Far)
T Funk flipping in ‘Gimmie A Break’.
A shit year so far, indeed.
As I lick my police baton wounds and rinse the tear gas from my eyes to check my phone and see World War 3 starting, I am not looking optimistically into the future. Macro vision: the world is fucked. Micro vision: skateboarding is also a little bit fucked. I have felt for some time that we have lost our way a little bit, whether it be the fashion, the low standards of professional skill, the roll on grinds, or the fact that legacy companies are dropping out of the sky like a Boeing built in 1999. However, myself and my colleagues cannot help but be excited as always about the video parts. They keep coming out, ever-shifting the ways in which skateboarding is viewed, interacted with, endeavored, and enjoyed. The video part, though more disposable than the days of the VHS or even the DVD, are still a powerful and coveted thing for steering the way of culture hopefully toward something authentic and away from willy grinds.
Here, then, administered and described by our contributors at this, the middle junction of the year, are our five favorite video parts. Let the shit talking and vitriol commence.
Curren Caples - CURREN
What can be said about Curren that hasn’t already been said about California? He is beautiful, elegant, and I could dwell within his comforting embrace forever. He has everything I need readily available, and with a certain cinderblock, surf style that is both frightening and alluring. Also, didn’t he just put out a shoe? And a part? Is he going for SOTY? Is that what this is? Is it finally the decade of Curren/Louie/Jake/Mason (again) crew going big? Let’s hope.
T Funk - ‘Gimmie A Break’ A Baker Vid by Fel
Not to say that Rowan and the rest of the crew didn’t fire the fuck off, it’s just something about how frantic the Funk is in his skating - how haphazard, almost listless and frightened he is - that just gets me going. T is one of the few skaters that makes me feel like a bitch for being afraid of trying front crook on a box at 5th and 5th, and watching his pants flap in the wind makes me wonder how much attention he pays to looking specifically like an AI amalgamation of a 2029 skateboarder, a 1999 skateboarder, and a freak on a leash.
Vincent Milou - Welcome to Element
A complete reprisal of Element - the former skateboarding powerhouse perhaps best known for being the facilitator of the Bam era of skateboarding - as an independently European corporate entity includes Vincent Milou, a skateboarder who makes my brain hurt. Watching Vincent Milou skate is like watching a surgeon at work, or a welder, or perhaps some sort of sharpshooter, except in exclusively button up shirts. If anyone is going to make Element cool again, it’s Vincent.
Bobby De Kyzer - BOBCBC
Who knew that Bobby could fall? That he has to struggle for tricks like the rest of us? Granted, the rest of us are struggling and falling on fs board slides and not sw tre flipping over ledges like he is, but a struggle nonetheless. How does one earn the ability to do what he does? By not spooking the deer, I suppose. Try and try again. Skate the same spot again and again. Everyday. Six weeks. Every day. Do the trick. Focus. Incredible focus. Incredible stamina. Tom Knox levels of commitment and fury. Furthermore, who knew that I could sit and be entertained - nay, enthralled - by a twenty-something minute video in which only maybe 20 tricks are actually made. Then again, the tricks that are made are absolutely astounding, so it’s quality over quantity, and in this case, seeing the chef cook is as good as the meal itself.
