"As we turn the page on another hectic year, weighed down by pudding and pints, forcing damp skates into this weird time between Christmas and NYE when ledges feel twice as tall and everything’s a ... View more

"As we turn the page on another hectic year, weighed down by pudding and pints, forcing damp skates into this weird time between Christmas and NYE when ledges feel twice as tall and everything’s a blur, it’s easy to forget. You know, to forget the good times and why we do it, to forget that we even can do it… Luckily for us, nothing screams hope like watching pros from our childhood steadily progress in their 40s, with full-time jobs to attend and regular lives to live just like the rest of us. The “peak” of Sven’s career arc may be skating to The Streets in a big American vid, at least on paper, but let’s face it, flipping out of switch front blunts in the middle of ledges is not something humans are known to do, whether that be in the Battalion/The Storm “everything goes as long as it’s tech” days or now, as we close out 2025. Not to mention that even the way he’s doing all this mental switch shit seems to be evolving… Just look at the shapes on that sw back smith!" -Free Skate Mag Filmed and edited by Jon Wolf. Show less