Summertime Mixtape Vol. 8 – Sage Elsesser and Kenny Anderson, ‘Purple’

The ‘Cherry’ class of 2014 has a steely-eyed SOTY, a movie star, and a seven-day-weekender, so Sage Elsesser’s segue into an old-head role seems just fine, as long as he doesn’t permanently hang up his board in favor of his musical career. The dude’s imperial pop and frontside-leaning body contortions on his lipslides and tailslides helped Ben Chadbourne mix up the styles in Converse’s 2018 full-length and avoid the repetitiveness that bogged down ‘Away Days,’ though the height blasted on some of the tricks here, like the chest-high heelflip over the sidewalk gap or the fence 50-50, borders on cartoonish. Put Sage Elsesser on the unspoken list of those who can get away with street grabs, and Kenny Anderson, in the smooth chaser role here, on the one that permits 180s in the middle of manual tricks to be done by certain persons at certain times, in accordance with certain permits.

Psychic Fluids, Astral Forces And Further Fruits From 2018’s Video Cornucopia

Nate Pezzillo — ’Untitled 003’
A monster going up and over Muni’s cylinders — and squeezes a shove-it Suski from Love Park’s shriveling husk

Marcello Campanello — ’Mode’
Fakie boss in the Borroughs, with the cab kickflip backside tailslide

Austyn Gillette — ’Radiant Cure’
Switch shove-it rewinds with extra savoir faire

Charlie Cassidy — ’NY Archive’
Glass slicer boardslide and that backside noseblunt — skates like a Philly dude

Corey Glick — ’Souvenir’
Helping put Foundation into the conversation again with gusto, a fakie flip switch backside smith grind and a will not to clip on that last, scary jump

Shintaro Hongo — ’Pick Up’
The thought of rural Japanese spots is a trip — ferocious backside flip and bluntslides

Jake Johnson — ’Purple’
A glimpse of the master in his Penny period

Kyle Wilson — ’YS Video’
The float on the switch heelflip

Brian Delatorre — ’Purple’
GX OG, at home nollieing backside over a tremendous bar, or reclining in a backside smith grind

John Shanahan — ’Street Sweeper’
This year bringing back the fakie pop shove and tic-tacs, and with a pro deck in the works, revealing at last what lies beneath the Flexfits