The world may have exploded twice over in last year but we weren’t really paying attention because 2021 was a historic year for skateboarding. Not only was it the first time that our hobby/sport/whatever was showcased on a worldwide scale, but it was also the year Tony Hawk sold his blood and his tricks. We saw Supreme expand their empire to Italy and Germany, while brands like StockX entered the skateboarding zeitgeist.
To properly highlight the good, the bad, and the even worse of 2021 we sat and thought about it for like 45 minutes and decided to come up with this list.
There might be some awards on here that you don’t understand, but as long as you get a laugh and prepare for another year full of unfathomable trends, hard slams, and then we’ve done our job!
Previous Winners: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
Best Sponsor
The US Government
Skate Event Of The Year
Milk Crate Challenge
Lamest Beef
Kelly Hart vs. Rad Rat
Team of the Year
917
Best flick
Louie Lopez
When will it end?
Big Boy trend
7th Place
Nyjah Huston
Best new skate shop
Depop
Please, No
Jagger Eaton
Where’d they go?
Business and Company
Most “For me it’s crazy like”
Leticia Bufoni
Most Dead End
Straye
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December 23, 2021 7:28 pm
Boring
December 24, 2021 10:08 am
tig bime!
December 23, 2021 8:41 pm
Haha off to a good start an……. wait thats it?
Jenkem’s new interns getting lazy wtf there was so much to cover
December 24, 2021 8:50 pm
It’s always the interns fault! I heard he is actually Steve Berra’s puppet master. Something fishy about that boy
December 23, 2021 10:01 pm
love it!
December 24, 2021 2:13 am
All that rad rat crap isn’t what skateboarding is about ,that’s the new chumped down version of skateboarding….. Laser flips and kiwi flips I mean God damn I’m done with the gay s*** in skateboarding that’s stupid…..
December 24, 2021 1:35 pm
That’s cool. Skateboarding’s done with homophobia. Go away.
January 4, 2022 3:15 pm
“Oh no he said the forbidden word, let’s ignore everything else he said in the comment”
December 25, 2021 1:59 am
Is your style so refined that you clench your butthole to avoid any dicks when skating?
Loosen up dude