Thrasher Magazine

Dime and adidas joined forces to treat the people of LA to a team demo, new gear drop and something of a celebrity sighting. Wanna see the chat bots write about a tracksuit? Here’s your ticket.

First things first, a balanced Brazilian breakfast courtesy of Felipe

Inside the park, Jenn Soto and Mariah Duran were getting Christmas completes going

While Daewon was switch nose manualing all over the place

And when I say all over the place, I’m talking up the euro, into the QP and all the way to the hip

Don’t worry, Sam’s here!

Lil’ Dre had the hip under control

Felipe had his back on the flatbar

Ten AM call time for a demo? Anything for the locals

Diego kept the heat going with a blasted nollie inward heel

Fresh from MIA, the jit himself

And he brought some dip with him!

Some positive reinforcement from the TM

Zeke Duran demonstrates the Albuquerque warmup, which is a bigspin front blunt on the first handrail you see

Deep in the phone zone

Lil’ Dre popped his switch flip well above the watermark

SOTY liked it

D-Ser put the phone down for a second to get as close as possible to my lens

Daewon knew something needed to be done on this ramp

I wouldn’t have guessed it would have been 5-0 to fakie manual. Some say he’s still holding it

And the group consensus is in: It’s hot as fuck

We needed a new location with some shade

The ledge over grass wasn’t enough for Nikolai...

Wanna stay lowkey on the lacquer mission? That new tracksuit oughta do it

Just make sure not to get any on those three stripes

Paul took a quick group poll as to what Nikolai had up his sleeve

But before anyone could get some, Paul had to make his mark to remind the people

Must be nice having a shoe…

Meanwhile, Jenn took advantage of the new wax job and went all the way around the bench

You know Nikolai had to get some

While Felipe and David watched from the sidelines

Felipe ditched the shoes and gave a solid five reasons as to why he didn’t want to skate the new spot. The best one was that he didn’t understand how lacquer worked. Someone send him Salba’s number, please

When he realized this ledge over gap was traditionally waxed up, he couldn’t resist a good old switch back tail flip out. Must be nice

The crowd goes wild

Nikolai had to get his back with the regular back tail kicky

If you’re getting dapped up from Daewon, you know it’s a good day

After a quick shower, we made our way over to the HVW8 gallery in Hollywood. First friendly faces, we got East Coast Jerms and adidas park local Joey Abarca

Lest we get lost, maps were available on the way in

Along with a very witty overview written by ChatGPT. Now write me a business proposal for the next big tech thing in the style of however Lyft got its money

Who could’ve predicted all these tracksuits?!

Behold, the reason for the season

But what about that Luminacore Sphere?

Need your ‘90s nostalgia fix? I got you

It wouldn’t be a Dime party without some proper champagne. I’m assuming these all come from the Champagne region of French Canada

Out front, we have our favorite team manager with his guest of honor

T-Huff takes advantage of the party favors

Jer missed the pattern memo

Donta makin' Carl and Diego look like shrimps

A torn ACL and one crutch couldn’t keep Christina home

When Brad Staba isn’t whipping up pizza or shooting Oakley campaigns, he’s usually sipping on some fine wine

Carl wanted a photo with everyone, including Nak and Alan

Filmer-skater duo Devin Lopez and TJ Rogers rolled up

"You wanna talk about meteors?!"

Team Nora made its way up from sunny San Diego

A limo? Who could this be?

Holy shit, it’s John Wick! Everyone, be extra nice to a puppy if you see one

And Mr. Señor Love Daddy?! Could be the truth, Ruth

I mean, if Carl is gonna snap a photo with everyone, he’s definitely gonna need one with the these guys

One does something with the CIA, the other went back in time and the shoes are from outer space. Can we greenlight this picture already?

Hats off to Montreal for this one

Brad Saunders, a big fan of champagne and movie stars

You know what? Fuck the ‘90s. It’s 2005 and we’re watching Bloc Party or The White Stripes or Yeah Yeah Yeahs or The Shins or Of Montreal or LCD Soundsystem or Broken Social Scene or Feist or The Faint or Interpol or Belle and Sebastian or the Pixies comeback. Tell all your friends with T9

Surprisingly, Nikolai was the only one here rocking speed shades. Carl and Christian need to take notes

Matt Milligan is a diehard Sam Jackson fan, so I had to bless him with a pic

Uh oh, the open bar is turning into open bottles

I made the mistake of getting one...

But as soon as they got ahold of it, I knew it was my time to get out of there

And just like that, we’re gone! A major shoutout to adidas and Dime for a day that will go down as one of my favorites in recent memory. If you want any chance of impressing dudes in the LA scene, celebs or convincing facsimiles, maybe cop a tracksuit and walk around Hollywood Blvd. You’ll never know what might happen