Cole Nowicki
@colenowicki.com
Wrote some books, publish others.
https://colenowicki.com/
A weekly newsletter about skateboarding, the internet, and other means of escape: https://simplemagic.ca/
https://colenowicki.com/
A weekly newsletter about skateboarding, the internet, and other means of escape: https://simplemagic.ca/
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Cole Nowicki
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It’s the fourth annual SSOTYs (Skateboarding Stories of the Year), an effort to catalogue and celebrate some of the best skateboarding-related writing in the year that was 2025.
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
This week, I get excited and long-winded over a pretty standard PR statement, the virtual triumphs over the real, an important question about Phantom Ganon, and more.
www.simplemagic.ca/life-and-dea...
www.simplemagic.ca/life-and-dea...
Life and death at the speed of content
New year, old stuff. Fabiana Delfino and Braden Hoban lose sponsors, we gain an understanding. Nyjah Huston fractures his skull, and more.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This week, I get excited and long-winded over a pretty standard PR statement, the virtual triumphs over the real, an important question about Phantom Ganon, and more.
www.simplemagic.ca/life-and-dea...
www.simplemagic.ca/life-and-dea...
Showed up to the spot dressed like the bus, smdh
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Showed up to the spot dressed like the bus, smdh
At the gym, watching a guy lean his phone against a water bottle to film his set, thinking how wack that is, before suffering an aneurism when the countless memories of leaning my phone against a water bottle to film my little tricks at the skatepark all come rushing back at once
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
At the gym, watching a guy lean his phone against a water bottle to film his set, thinking how wack that is, before suffering an aneurism when the countless memories of leaning my phone against a water bottle to film my little tricks at the skatepark all come rushing back at once
January 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Today, it's Simple Magic’s 5th annual year-end sports and culture gambling column, where you’ll find the world's most trusted skateboarding-related futures predictions and betting odds.
Brought to you by SimpleMagic Sportsbook.
www.simplemagic.ca/ive-got-5-ca...
Brought to you by SimpleMagic Sportsbook.
www.simplemagic.ca/ive-got-5-ca...
I’ve got $5 (CAD) on it: betting on the future of skateboarding in 2026
💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸
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January 2, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Today, it's Simple Magic’s 5th annual year-end sports and culture gambling column, where you’ll find the world's most trusted skateboarding-related futures predictions and betting odds.
Brought to you by SimpleMagic Sportsbook.
www.simplemagic.ca/ive-got-5-ca...
Brought to you by SimpleMagic Sportsbook.
www.simplemagic.ca/ive-got-5-ca...
Reposted by Cole Nowicki
Year in review, in loving memory of D’angelo. With help from the homies including @colenowicki.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Year in review, in loving memory of D’angelo. With help from the homies including @colenowicki.com
Brickbanklunchbreak 2025
A year of skating this brick bank-to-curb (mostly) on my lunch break, presented (pretty much) in order from January to December. Features fellow brickbanklunchbreakers, Will, Simon, Stew, Stefen, Joe, Mark, and Corey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeCA...
A year of skating this brick bank-to-curb (mostly) on my lunch break, presented (pretty much) in order from January to December. Features fellow brickbanklunchbreakers, Will, Simon, Stew, Stefen, Joe, Mark, and Corey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeCA...
Brickbanklunchbreak 2025
YouTube video by Cole Nowicki
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December 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Brickbanklunchbreak 2025
A year of skating this brick bank-to-curb (mostly) on my lunch break, presented (pretty much) in order from January to December. Features fellow brickbanklunchbreakers, Will, Simon, Stew, Stefen, Joe, Mark, and Corey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeCA...
A year of skating this brick bank-to-curb (mostly) on my lunch break, presented (pretty much) in order from January to December. Features fellow brickbanklunchbreakers, Will, Simon, Stew, Stefen, Joe, Mark, and Corey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeCA...
If this doesn't make skateboarders want to commit Butlerian Jihad, I'm not sure what else will.
December 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
If this doesn't make skateboarders want to commit Butlerian Jihad, I'm not sure what else will.
I just ping ponged El Toro
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I just ping ponged El Toro
Last Brickbanklunchbreak of the year… ?
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Last Brickbanklunchbreak of the year… ?
For the afternoon crowd
It’s the fourth annual SSOTYs (Skateboarding Stories of the Year), an effort to catalogue and celebrate some of the best skateboarding-related writing in the year that was 2025.
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
December 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
For the afternoon crowd
Reposted by Cole Nowicki
i'm in here!! 🛹
It’s the fourth annual SSOTYs (Skateboarding Stories of the Year), an effort to catalogue and celebrate some of the best skateboarding-related writing in the year that was 2025.
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
i'm in here!! 🛹
It’s the fourth annual SSOTYs (Skateboarding Stories of the Year), an effort to catalogue and celebrate some of the best skateboarding-related writing in the year that was 2025.
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s the fourth annual SSOTYs (Skateboarding Stories of the Year), an effort to catalogue and celebrate some of the best skateboarding-related writing in the year that was 2025.
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
Happy reading.
www.simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateb...
The Skate Board Association blocked me on Instagram today for, I assume, previously reporting on them, but before they did, I saw that they announced their "team franchises" this week, an announcement which includes the strange affirmation "No theft."
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Skate Board Association blocked me on Instagram today for, I assume, previously reporting on them, but before they did, I saw that they announced their "team franchises" this week, an announcement which includes the strange affirmation "No theft."
My Skater of the Year take, lukewarm, days removed: I think it's a positive that someone with the worst slate of sponsors, many of them likely insolvent, can still win.
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My Skater of the Year take, lukewarm, days removed: I think it's a positive that someone with the worst slate of sponsors, many of them likely insolvent, can still win.
Feels like their hearts aren't really in it anymore
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Feels like their hearts aren't really in it anymore
The battle continues (unless we just count it… ?)
December 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The battle continues (unless we just count it… ?)
Yes, this might be a 4,500 word piece on old skateparks, archaeology, memory, and meaning, but there's also nudity in it
From Glasgow to Greenfield to West Vancouver, a big, long piece about a series of old skateparks, the people who love them, the efforts made to preserve them, and why they matter.
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
A world where things matter
Digging up, resurrecting, and celebrating the history of forgotten skateparks.
www.simplemagic.ca
December 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yes, this might be a 4,500 word piece on old skateparks, archaeology, memory, and meaning, but there's also nudity in it
From Glasgow to Greenfield to West Vancouver, a big, long piece about a series of old skateparks, the people who love them, the efforts made to preserve them, and why they matter.
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
A world where things matter
Digging up, resurrecting, and celebrating the history of forgotten skateparks.
www.simplemagic.ca
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From Glasgow to Greenfield to West Vancouver, a big, long piece about a series of old skateparks, the people who love them, the efforts made to preserve them, and why they matter.
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
December 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM