Thrasher Magazine

It's that time of year again. Here are the contenders for SOTY 2020. Finalists announced and voting begins this Friday! 

Alexis Sablone opens the floodgates for a full-scale attack from the Cons crew, culminating with a climactic closing push from Louie Lopez.

Alexis heats up a private skate haven in Brooklyn for Cons. That kickflip 50-50 is a far cry from her old garage flatground sessions. 

Between talking cold calls to Burnquist and the Coliseum days, Alexis cruises the streets of NYC, sharing her creative process designing a pro Thunder and showing appreciation for the city life. Big LOVE to Alexis and all of New York.

Everyone’s favorite annual award ceremony is back to celebrate the year’s best breakthroughs and bunts. If you can’t make SOTY, might as well hope for a T-Eddy. See the list and guess who’ll get pissed.

Thrasher contributing writer Alex White’s completely biased opinion of the best non-male skaters of 2019.

Louie’s pro Cons had a good first year, so why not throw a party? With hitters like Louie, Alexis and Jake Johnson in the post, you gotta check the photos!

This full-length is packed to the brim with everything you expect from a WKND production. Great work, dudes. The 24-hour viewing period for this video has expired.

The Pushing Boarders conference whose tagline is, “talking skateboarding,” invited some of the brightest academics, activists and pro skaters to Malmö, Sweden to discuss the hard issues on the social side of skating. Ted Schmitz investigates.