Author: Josh

  • Solid Gold Goth Hits by Dan Watson

    I asked my Canadian internet buddy Dan Watson to make a musical mix for the website.  You may wonder what the Wisconsin connection is.  He’s somewhat in/famous for running the internet blog “You Will Soon”, best known for cyberbullying Steve Berra and praising the moon boot era of skate shoes.  He was also once sent…

  • Life Hack: Pressure Flips

    You thought the goofy boys were ancient history? Think again! Dust off your purple size 38 Fuct jeans, because we’re back in this! In the 2000s it was maligned and hated. In the tail end of the 2010s, it’s again HOT HOT HOT! Enjoy this riveting tutorial by masters of the art that were there…

  • 10 Songs To Launch To

    Yesterday I asked Gabe Chan to put together a new mix for the site. Gabe grew up skating in the 80s and fully lived and embraced the jump ramp culture of the era. His theme is “10 Songs to launch to”. He said “I chose these because that’s what I remember hearing the older dudes…

  • :58 at Cream City

    A Drakee appears! With Max Murphy, Gabe Chan, Nick Mistele, Sam Berget, and Tyler Schaefer.

  • Tabari Cook from Autumn

    A new part by MPLS Fam Tabari Cook! Tabari Cook from Dana Ross on Vimeo. Autumn DVD available here.

  • Proto Gary

    Some amount of years back, Gabe Chan made a skate movie called “Gary”.  Previous to “Gary”, there was also a “Proto Gary” film also called “Gary” which was never released.  In “Proto Gary” Russ Clark and I shared a painful part to Haircut 100 “Love Plus One”.  This part is presented below.  Watch only if…

  • 1:10 at Cream City

    A Thursday night at the best planet on Earth. Starring: Max Murphy, John Rockafellow, Bill Kaschner, Drew Rickaby, Sam Berget, Nick Mistele, and Josh Ellis.

  • Now It’s Time For Video Time

    Wiskate.com 18 year anniversary journal entry #2. The last post covered the boring nerd crap about the site. This one is about the videos. Over the ages I’ve made a few full length videos, and a metric crap pile of web clips. A lot of my best times on this planet have been out there…

  • 18 Years of Bad Layouts and Inept Photoshopping

    This week will mark the 18th year of existence of wiskate.com.  Eight years ago I wrote a history of the site for the 10 year anniversary.  This is an updated and expanded version of that post.  ~Josh Wiskate.com over the years (click images for a larger version): 1998:  We’ll have to call this one an…

  • Handy: The Movie – Edition 1 – 2012 – 2014 +More

    A compilation of Handy footage taken from 2012-2014. A lot of this footage was wasted on Instagram, and per the nature of the medium, probably forgotten about mere seconds later. Handy The Movie – Edition 1 from Josh Ellis on Vimeo. I made the chronological successor to Handy awhile back. IPHONE TRASH. A collection of…