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Thrasher Announces 2022 SOTY Contenders
Finally! Here are the contenders for Thrasher’s 2022 Skater of the Year.


The Skater of the Year Award, also known as SOTY is one of the most prestigious awards a skater could receive.
Thrasher Magazine started giving out SOTY in 1990. Tony Hawk was the first ever to receive the title. Only two skaters won SOTY twice – Danny Way (1991 and 2004) and Chris Cole (2005 and 2009). Mark Suciu was last year’s SOTY.
Who do you think should be the 2022 SOTY?
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Primitive Skate Launches New Series entitled REC
The first episode of the latest series by Eric Iwakura and Primitive Skate was just released via Primitive’s channel.
The three-minute video features Brian Peacock, Trent McClung, and Carlos Ribeiro.
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T-Funk Wins SLS 2022 Trick of the Year
Tristan Funkhouser, more popularly known as T-funk is the Street League Skateboarding 2022 Trick of the Year winner.
T-Funk was also one of the finalists for Thrasher’s 2022 Skater of the Year, but the title went to Tyshawn Jones.
Here are the winners of the other side awards given out by SLS and the corresponding sponsors.
- (A Shoc Energy) People’s Champ Award –Adriel Parmisano
- (Visible) Line of the Year Award – Carlos Ribeiro
- (Tiger Beer) Against All Odds Award – Justin Bishop
- (BB Seguros) Style Matters Award – Jake Wooten
- (Skater XL) XL Combo Award -Marcelo Profeta
T-Funk got $10,000 for winning the 2022 Trick of the Year while the side award winners took home $1,000 each.
Watch the clip from the Baker Video with Tyson and T Funk that won him the award below.
Watch the full video part here.
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Dan Mancina Teaches Visually Impaired Kids How to Skate
Dan Mancina taught skateboarding to visually impaired kids in Portland, Oregon in an activity hosted by Adidas Skateboarding and North West Association for Blind Athletes.
Mancina started skateboarding when he was 13 years old. Around that time, he also got diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare eye degenerative disease during a routine eye check-up. He completely lost his eyesight when he was 23.
Mancina decided to relearn skateboarding and then started “Keep Pushing”, a non-profit that aims to share the skateboarding tradition with the differently-abled community.
Other members of the Adidas skateboarding team namely Dennis Busenitz, Silas Baxter-Neal, John Perez, and Sam Narvaez also helped teach the kids the fundamentals of skating during the event.
Real Skateboards and Protec provided the gear for the kids.
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