It felt like a simpler time.
Maybe it was, or maybe everyone just feels that way when they’re eight years old.
This year is making me nostalgic for that time.
Not for impending geopolitical upheaval as part of a sequence of public attacks, but for my first skateboard.
That cultural moment may be making a return.
We all believed Heaven was a Halfpipe.
The X Games was a thing you walked around not only knowing about, butcaringabout.
But in the two decades since, it has returned.
But it’s not just the two established series coming back.
Skate culture has always needed a youthful energy to explode, not just legends tricking out.
In the virtual realm, the position of newcomer will be filled bySkate Story.
With that, 2025 is looking as totally rad as 2001 was.
