2026 Skate Predictions

[outis]

Durao drops one helluva part early in the year, with the Wallenburg switch tre.

The skateboard economy continues to struggle, causing at least one major corporation shoe company to close its skate department.

Lots of fakie frontside tricks.

I will do at least 357 nose manual shuvits of some variety or another.

[GumOnMyGrip]

Thrasher goes digital 100%.Publishes only special collectors editions.

Welcome collabs with more shitty collab partners.

Santa Cruz trims team to Winkowski and Asta. And 25 new color ways of a Salba deck.

Primitive sells to corpo group, promptly turns into budget brand.

European, Baltic and Japanese skaters continue to outpace Americans in innovation and motivation.

Anti hero continues to mis -measure their eagle decks.

Eggs finally die. FOS markets new perfectly square shape. Symmetrical in all directions.

Not skating at all becomes the hottest pro trend.

[Sedition]

Anti-Hero becomes a fully owned subsidiary of Nike.

[alien porkchop]

economic cataclysm after the world learns durao didn’t land the switch tre at wallenburg

[JamesFardy]

Ben Gilley comes back to Zero, but as their "HR" guy that nobody asked for. So many lawsuits happen against Zero. Nobody wins, but they drop a really good that takes away any negative press. Guys in the video hard flip off of actual buildings but most of slap can care less.

[jsettle]

Jaeb announced as Quasi pro

[Sandwich Marty]

Nidecker closes down emerica/es & rebrands etnies to compete with the sketchers demo.

Ipath gets popular again after some celebrity starts wearing them.

Indy fully brings the cross back & stokes the culture war in skateboarding. Greyson Fletcher is the poster boy.

Spitfire/grimple collab with an octagonal shaped wheel & people post silly clips for a week on social media

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Tyshawn 3 peat

[Sedition]

Spitfire/grimple collab with an octagonal shaped wheel & people post silly clips for a week on social media

LOVE this. Remember their “Full Full” decks, or the “NightHammer”? Those wheels would go great those decks.

[Noble Experiment]

Tyshawn 3 peat

I could see Foy snagging it

[DVstorm_chaser]

Anti-Hero becomes a fully owned subsidiary of Nike.

[ChuckRamone]

A non-American skater gets SOTY for only the seventh time in the award's history

Someone does a flip in, flip, flip out trick on a gnarly obstacle

Regular fit pants

[Buttworm]

540’s down stairs

[Insole]

Etnies will collect the YouTube skater infinity stones

Maité will learn casper stalls or darkslides

Chloe will finally win sls super crown

[mfweeno]

With Joslin breaking the El Toro tre barrier, someone will try something else ridiculous down it.

[Noble Experiment]

With Joslin breaking the El Toro tre barrier, someone will try something else ridiculous down it.

Adrien Bulard will try to do another flip trick down it, only for Joslin to catch wind and do it first again.

[PalaceButtPlug]

540’s down stairs

happened 13 years ago and no one else wanted the smoke after that : https://youtu.be/pxczBuQIN0s?si=oCb5QMleQX6QK_uR (make is at 1:10)

[ferguu]

lakai dead for good.

[Pbn_jake]

540’s down stairs

Tyson bowerbank ABD

[Southernmost]

Tyshawn 3 peat

I keep seeing the term 3peat being used in this context. That would mean he won three times in a row.

[formula420]

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540’s down stairs

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Tyson bowerbank ABD

He was on the nine club with descenzo. The entire time I was waiting for them to talk about it. It wasn’t mentioned.

[Pbn_jake]

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540’s down stairs

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Tyson bowerbank ABD

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He was on the nine club with descenzo. The entire time I was waiting for them to talk about it. It wasn’t mentioned.

That one fool did a 1080 and no one gives a shit about that. I forgot his name even

[TastyBurrito]

With Joslin breaking the El Toro tre barrier, someone will try something else ridiculous down it.

Nyjah vs Sheckler to see who can BS Flip El Toro first

[TD]

Kader goes back to Baker for five minutes

[CharlieWork]

Fs 180 nosegrab down el toro.

Mikey horseface Taylor starts a skatecoin crypto for true christian skaters. Henry Sanchez loses all of his life savings and blames Obama.

[The real veganshawn]

Nuclear War opens up new skate spots, only problem is you're dead

[decoi1]

Skate Mental full length drops

[Magnolia]

Nuclear War opens up new skate spots, only problem is you're dead

This would be huge for the cockroaches in that zoo york video

[JM]

Greyson goes to brain doctor and starts thumping his chest instead.

[GershonSweaty]

2026 is the year SB falls back.