The King Of Pop + NYC Tyshawn Jones | “I’m trying to get the cover of Vogue”
The New York Times comes through hot with the skate content in their latest T Magazine profiling NY wonder kid Tyshawn Jones. As skate mags bite the dust the mainstream is starting to fill in the holes. This is really well done.
Sample:
It has been a long time since skateboarding has seen a figure like Jones, someone who rapidly and almost out of nowhere redefines what’s physically possible on a board. His skateboarding is, as one of his sponsors, Jason Dill, put it to me, the type that anyone in the general public can appreciate: ‘‘It’s easily translatable. The physics of what he’s doing is apparent.’’ Jones possesses an unholy combination of vertical leap, flexibility, strength, finesse and timing — which skaters call, somewhat reductively, ‘‘pop’’ — that allows him to launch himself and his board over or onto seemingly whatever he wants, sometimes appearing to float for just a beat too long at the apex, as if briefly entering low orbit. Jones first learned about skating from video games, and it sometimes appears his sense of what can be done on a board is influenced by the unnatural laws of those pretend worlds.
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Click to THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE for the profile on Tyshawn Jones
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