TransWorld SKATEboarding Podus Operandi

We sat down for a conversation on preserving skateboarding's history in the UK and beyond. You should know by now that Neil Macdonald's triumph of a book, 'ELSEWHERE: The Story of UK Skateboarding, 1987-2002,' will be out on May 28, and it's the most complete story of skateboarding in the UK to date. Important to note: The book specifically covers 1987 to 2002, because after that media became digi...

There's a lot of hype around Jacob Rosenberg's new book(s), and for good reason. It's a massive package that takes a deeply personal lens to San Francisco's Embarcadero scene from 1990 to 1993—some of the most influential and progressive years for street skating. I wanted to have a semi-brief chat with Jacob before his big exhibition opens in San Francisco on November 21. I didn't want to give awa...

Sean Kelling was a New York City loc in the 90s and got plenty of time in at the Brooklyn Banks. He's since relocated to North County San Diego and opened a skateshop in Encinitas—and he named it Rose Street. Listen in to all of the reasons why.

A video walkthrough with a New York City OG and one of the founders of Zoo York, Eli Morgan Gesner was there for some wild times and has the stories to prove it. Photos from the Full Bleed book, video clips from Future Primitive and 411VM. Video/edit: Blair Alley

Episode two features Brooklyn native Alyasha Owerka-Moore recounting his formative years at the Brooklyn Banks in the 80s and 90s. It was a more than a meet-up spot or a skate spot you'd be at all day—it was also the location for a lot of ideas coming together, starting companies, and making lifelong friends. Some of the photos in this episode are from Alyasha's personal collection, photographed b...

Now that the Brooklyn "Big Banks" are back open to the public, we wanted to hear some stories from New York City OGs about grittier times in Lower Manhattan. Our first episode is with Bruno Musso. Interview by Blair Alley. Enjoy! And to clarify, that's Jahmal Simmons on the TWS cover, and Jahmal Williams in the goldenrod shirt.

Where do you start with skateboarding Hall of Famer Grant Brittain? From working at the Del Mar Skate Ranch photographing Tony Hawk as a kid to being one of the founding members of TransWorld SKATEboarding, shooting some of the most iconic skateboarding images of all time—and still doing it to this day! It was truly an honor to have this legend on the pod. Listen in as Steve Fletch, Mitch Hartman...

Kerry Getz joins Mitch, Steve, and Blair. We watch Kerry's classic part in TWS' Feedback that he shared with Bam Margera and Mike Maldonado. We also watch his pre-Toy Machine Fairmans 3 part. We of course ask how he got on Habitat—the story is pretty rad. We go through the lucrative Habitat and DVS years, find out how much a top-level pro was making in those years, and what eventually led Kerry to...

Mitch, Steve and Blair have Podus Operandi's first guest, filmmaker Jason Hernandez who you ought to know from his time at TransWorld making some of our most memorable videos and going on to Nike SB to make the best videos they've ever put out. Who were the best and worst guys to film for TransWorld videos? How about for the Nike SB Chronicles? All that and more revealed in this episode.

We sat down once again with Steve and Mitch with the idea to watch a classic TWS video and "live-critique" it. Wanna know who was in those nameless montages? You gotta stick around for the credits. It was a time of 16mm film montages, lots of bums and the TransWorld video with just three parts. Tap in to hear who the fourth part was supposed to be, where the taxi came from and where it ended up, a...

Mitch, Steve and Blair took your questions and comments from our IG posts and went to work. Who hates black wheels? Do we "F" with the current trends in skating? Which brand has the most bloated pro roster? All these fun topics and more in an all new Podus Operandi.

Join us with Steve Fletch and Mitch Hartman as we review some top categories of 2023: Best rookie pro, best indie video, best big company video, best video part, best and worst shoes, biggest brand fumble and more!

We wanted to do a Podus Operandi episode all about the new skate shoes that have dropped since Mitch and Steve did their Dead Air Radio episode about shoes. And we also had the idea to bring back Skate Nerd for a game against these two East Coasters. So sit back and enjoy the trivia and shoe news.

Season one, episode two, and it's all about four-one-one! Mitch and Steve join Blair Alley as we dive deep into the 411VM catalog to recount all of our favorite features, jokes, goofs, bails, Best Ofs, and much more.

After Blair Alley was a guest on the Dead Air Radio podcast with Steve Fletch and Mitch Hartman, we decided to try our hand at podcasting over here—because the world definitely needs another skateboarding podcast... We didn't have any delusions of grandeur for the inaugural episode—we were just going to talk about current events, break out the Randomizer, etc. One of the hot topics recently was th...