5 Greats: Braden Hoban
11/28/2024
Braden tells curb skaters to "Go skate a rail," plus a stack of hilarious lists from our January '25 mag. Read up from someone who ain't scared to say—or skate—anything.Braden rides rails across America and closes out with an ender to remember. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor now
- Nightmares
- Perfect handrails
- Perfect flatground
- Skate trips
- Perfect bar hops
- Any Bob Dylan
- Any Chemical Brothers
- “Better off Alone” –Alice Deejay
- Andrew Real’s playlist
- “Hells Bells” –AC/DC
- Nope
- Nah
- Not stee
- Never
- Go skate a rail
- Not being productive
- Better sleep
- Strain on your eyes
- Go skate
- Be badass in the real world
A fucked up gap-to-5-0? Also a reason to log off
- Tommy Sandoval
- Wes Kremer
- Alex Willms
- Alexis Ramirez
- Tony Hawk
- Chris Ortiz’ back tattoo
- Rodney Mullen invented every flatground trick
- UFO sightings
- “Chicken bones are dinosaur bones” —Blake Carpenter
- Skate Gods control the weather
- Heath Kirchart, This Is Skateboarding
- Leo Romero, Stay Gold
- Bryan Herman, Stay Gold
- Jeremy Leabres, Made
- Dakota Servold and Jon Dickson, Green
- Work on your push
- Keep the clips coming
- No more homie videos
- Dress better
- Go skate Street League
Backside flip, but never back row in the van. Got it?
- Filmer in driver seat
- Dakota in shotgun
- Me and Leo in first row
- Jeremy and David Reyes/Tim Aguilar in second row
- CJ Collins and whoever is on the sesh in forbidden-realm back row
- Being bummed on a skate trip
- Having bad breath
- Missing multiple tours and getting your original seat taken
- If the tour guide needs to sit close to give directions
- Filming jerk-off videos
- Four or five different transmissions
- Broken seats
- People stealing boards from the back
- Making us think she is dying
- All the things that happen with a van that has over 300,000 miles
- Back-to-back 50-50s on big rails
- Kickflip on a stair set or gap
- Boardslides
- Maybe one-up them. That’s always fun. Just kidding
- Anything, because getting your bro’s back is one of the coolest things ever
Scratching up the infrastructure on a back 180 nosegrind out forwards
- Text Sinclair
- Call Sinclair
- Post a video of you riding another brand
- Try to get kicked off on purpose
- Cancel yourself and disappear
- Curb skating
- Oysters
- Politics
- Religion
- When people try to tell you that Bob Dylan isn’t a good performer
Kicky front nosegrind with that rockstar flick
- Nick Trapasso
- Josh Harmony
- Leo Romero
- Daniel Lutheran
- Jeremy Leabres
- When it’s just you and a filmer out night skating and everyone is at the Airbnb eating pizookie and watching a movie, chillin’
- When a company hits you up and says we need an ad photo by tomorrow
- When you’re trying a flip trick in the wind
- Trying ledge lines
- Four hours deep into trying a trick
- Straight eight first T out of the van
- Masochist
- Good food recommendations
- Amazing guitar player
- Buff daddy
- One more and we’re gone forever
- When will you be gone?
- We got permission
- You ever heard of Thrasher?
- Anything other than what Tim Aguilar would say
With the thrill-seeking of Leo and the tongue of Trapasso, Braden keeps the Toy legacy strong on a wild gap to crooks
- Play a game of SKATE
- Skate a big rail together
- Get them in the van
- Learn how to take jokes
- Learn how to make jokes back
- Rhino
- My friends
- Tom Segura
- My dad
- Bob Dylan
- Rubik’s Cube
- Yo-Yo
- Guitar
- Average golfer
- Making sandwiches
- Leo Romero
- Ishod Wair
- Wes Kremer
- Jamie Foy
- Mason Silva
Outside boardslide over Portuguese stone
- Having really cool roommates
- Cost of living is lower
- Always something going on
- Home-cooked meals
- Hearing all the funny shit Ed Hoban says
- A Star Is Born
- Love & Other Drugs
- Titanic
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Dekline’s True Blue
- Bob Dylan
- Elliott Smith
- Randy Newman
- Kyle Cox
- Dakota Servold and I
- Chris Joslin
- Ryan Decenzo
- Blake Carpenter
- Andrew Real
- Jaws
- Someone who is present and has your back when you’re on the front line of the battlefield
- Someone who wants to be out there hyping it up
- Making jokes
- Taking jokes
- Can drive the van
- CJ Collins slammed one time and said, “Can someone check my pulse?” He was serious
- Dakota just broke his penis
- Tim Aguilar is always slamming so hard
- Adam Robo hung up in a bowl, fucked his shit up and we ended up filming lines all day
- Leo hit his face on a rock, came back to the van with a bloody face and was laughing very hard
Back Smith kickflip out with the Yeto van watchin' over
- Heath Kirchart bluntslide hubba
- James Hardy switch shove nosegrind rail
- Muirlands, because it’s knobbed right now
- O-Side hubba is also knobbed at the moment
- Fullerton hubba frontside for regular. Backside is still skateable Go get some, kids
- Any of Nicole Smith’s horror tattoos
- Glow-in-the-dark tattoos
- Neck and face tattoos
- Antwuan tattoos
- Penocchio cock tattoo
- Thinking about the skate trip being over
- Bad food spots
- Raining on a skate trip
- Windy on a skate trip
- Daylight savings
- My cross-lock backside brother Jamie Foy’s most recent cover, grind down, flat and up. Dec. 2024
- Myles Willard, wallride. May 2019
- Ishod Wair, gap kicky back lip. Nov. 2013
- Jaws, Melon Lyon 25. March 2016
- James Hardy, noseblunt Patrick Henry. Nov. 2010
- My family
- Giles Canty
- Connor Douglas
- Mike Wilson from the YMCA
- Isaac Etimenan
- Destroying a skatepark or spot with my Gs
- Being in Europe with Pedro
- Finishing a song with Dakota Servold
- Putting for eagle on a par 5
- When the dinner spot is amazing
Kinker grind to front board, no fear
- Those super long shorts/pants or whatever those things are
- Professional curb skating
- Ride-on grinds
- Turning people that suck pro
- People being sensitive/offended
- Video games
- Living in fear
- Staying stagnant
- Soda
- Getting fat
- My family’s cooking
- Bakeries
- In-N-Out
- I used to blow weed smoke in Leo Romero’s eyes
- Jared Lucas smells like maple syrup sometimes
- Marisa Dal Santo
- Shiloh Catori
- Georgia Martin
- Alexis Sablone
- Paige Heyn
- Drop off crew at Airbnb first
- Make sure to fill up the generator
- Try to land the trick first try and get out
- Choose a spot that won’t have homeless people
- Just skate in the daytime
- Use the J-Lay method
- Say you’re too sore
- Fake an injury
- Say you’re sick
- Be honest and just say, “I’m a little bitch”
Big Philly style—blasting a kickflip
- How was your three-month long trip? Tell me everything!
- Are you excited for the Olympics in LA?
- What’s your best trick?
- Don’t you get tired of the road?
- When are you coming home?
- When the cops say you’ve been here before
- If Jake Phelps asks you if you backside flipped El Toro
- Avoiding conflict
- Maintain privacy
- For fun
- Dakota Servold’s perm
- Leo Romero’s long mohawk
- Jamie Thomas’s goth phase
- Tim Aguilar’s two-tone hair
- Cody Long’s camouflage
- More road
- Video parts
- Contests
- Inspire
- Just do the damn thing ‘til the bell rings
Absolute maniacs? Shoulda put his own name on the list. Board-breaking front blunt down the famed Walnut rail. Well done, G!-
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