Blondey McCoy’s Best Skateboarding Tips and Fashion Moments

This story expands on some of the themes from Blondey McCoy’s cover story in issue 19 of Highsnobiety magazine. You can buy the new number here. In the late ’90s, former Thrasher editor Jake Phelps (RIP) started calling heavy tricks “hammers,” a term that Baker / Deathwish pro Jim Greco raced with, turning it...

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Dolphin Flips and 9 Other Skateboarding Tricks No One Does More

After skateboarding has purged itself of the triple flips and curb dancing of the early 90s, the list of acceptable tricks has been drastically reduced. Late push her, all the pressure shifted, and all that rudeness was cut off in the mid-90s, and older tricks like wallrides and street grabs weren’t being practiced by...

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