5 Greats: Ben Kadow
7/03/2025
Ben is pro skater in the classic mold: effortlessly cool, slightly menacing and a downright terror in the streets. That's the kinda guy you wanna know more about. He has partied with Bill Murray and likes the smell of hot garbage. What other absurdities await in his shocking lists of 5 Greats?! You’ll have to check this piece from our July ‘25 mag.
Ben delivers an undeniable instant hit with the penultimate part in Hockey IV. Play it back 'til your screen cracks
- DC Video
- Yeah Right!
- Bag of Suck
- Skate More
- Tony Hawk’s Trick Tips Vol. 3
- Battery Park Ledges
- The Banks
- Beer Bar
- Zuccotti
- Bubble Banks
- Superiority Burger
- Opening Greens On The Go (Darien, CT) with my mom
- Dinner Thyme Catering
- Brooklyn Winery
- 121 Restaurant (North Salem, NY)
- Natalie Wood
- Jodie Foster
- Susan Sarandon
- Faye Dunaway
- Patricia Arquette
Pettibon’s brother is the Black Flag guy. Boardslide into the steps
- Bill Murray
- Kunichi Nomura
- Raymond Pettibon
- Kevin Bradley
- Paul Bearer
- Piss on the floor
- Steal my phone charger
- Fall asleep
- Lock yourself in the bathroom
- Insist on watching your old homie’s skate vids
- Gism — Detestation
- Poison Idea — Feel the Darkness
- Mental Abuse — Streets of Filth
- Killing Time — Brightside
- Cro-Mags — The Age of Quarrel
- Blood Simple
- Motel Hell
- The Accused
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- For a Few Dollars More
So much shit to get hurt on. 50-50 past the kink and the gate
- Three 6 Mafia — “Tear Da Club Up”
- Ratt — “I’m Insane”
- Anti-Nowhere League — “Let’s Break the Law”
- T-Pain — “I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper)”
- Dem Franchize Boyz — “White Tee”
- 2 Bros St. Marks
- B&H
- Superiority Burger
- Grand Central Oyster Bar
- Via Carota
Big Ben bringin' the new shit to the iconic Brooklyn Banks rail, ollie over 50-50
- Skaters not getting health insurance
- Reading
- Commercials
- Fifth inning of game five
- Going home without the clip
- BDSM
- At
- The
- Noise
- Gig
Gun show in Chinatown. Boardslide down and around
- Jed Anderson
- Johnny O’Connor
- Lucas Magoon
- Travis Parker
- Danny Kass
- Air conditioning
- Ice pack
- Fan
- Ocean
- The walk-in
- Every
- Single
- Chief
- Keef
- Song
- My family
- Steven Siegel
- Bill Strobeck
- Todd Jordan
- Rod Serling
Dancing with a dangler on a waist-high lipslide 
- Upstate
- Tokyo
- Miami
- The desert
- Vermont
- Giancarlo Stanton
- Mariano Rivera
- Ichiro Suzuki
- Alfonso Soriano
- Ben Rice
- Max Palmer
- Cyrus Bennett
- Andrew Wilson
- Zered Bassett
- Antonio Durao
- Boyd Carlinton
- Tony Tetrazini
- Mike Sawk
- Zeke Knowbler
- Ike Jobton
- Nothing
- I’m
- An
- Avid
- Dishwasher
- NY Pizza Suprema
- Chrissy’s
- Patsy’s
- Joe’s
- Stromboli
From Brewster to the Big Apple, switch frontside flip a classic can Photo: Acosta
- Too dark
- Too much foot traffic
- Kicked out
- Broken board
- Broken bone
- Alex Olson
- Kien Lieu
- Sage
- Tyshawn
- Luis Tolentino
Nollie backside shove boardy, you won't find the other pop gods bustin' this rare number
- Tea tree
- Lavender
- Garbage radiating off hot summer sidewalks
- Campfires
- Gas fumes
- Skate shoes (besides Vans)
- Grease stains
- Blood
- Someone matching you
- Bad attitude!
Nollie at Allen and Hester. Is that a real bike lock?
- Every time I have to go back to a spot
- Preparing days in advance to try a trick
- Warming up
- Dealing with foot traffic (aka having to wait five minutes in between tries)
- Filming tricks that aren’t 50-50 grinds
- Corey Duffel
- Heath Kirchart
- Elijah Berle
- Johnny Wilson
- Chad Muska
Un-fuckin'-believable, Ben adds to his already impressive list of impossible grinds
- Too many clothes
- Clippers
- Raw ginger
- Wired and bluetooth headphones
- A book that I know I’m not going to read
- Switch mall
- Fakie mall
- Late mall
- Power mall
- Primo slide
- Ansil
- Slicky Boy
- Michelle Caiazzo
- Me
- The guy who bikes through every day blasting music with a different matching bike/outfit combo
- Jodie Foster
- Joey Ramone
- King Von
- Cam’ron
- Lou Reed
Fat melon at the police station? Gotta watch the video to see where this one lands-
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