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Dan Pensyl blunts to fakie in a southern globe.

Birds fly south for the winter and, when things get rough in New York and the greater East Coast, so do that area's inhabitants. The 5Boro team is no exception. Take a look at the video of their "Southern Migration, featuring Dan Pensyl, Danny Falla, Joe Tookmanian, Jimmy McDonald and Willy Akers.

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Kalis tosses a switch tailslide out in Rockaway New York back in the day.

Josh Kalis is one of the realest street skaters alive. With a style honed from countless hours at plaza spots including Love Park, MACBA and even EMB, Kalis has a rawness to his style that exudes in every executed trick. While he's put in time at Training Facility spots like the Berrics and the old Alien warehouse in Philly, there'll always be a ruggedness with the way he handles tricks because they were learned on street first and not in parks like so many of the current generation. Kalis has also always been outspoken about the desire to keep skating raw. Though he has an amazing part in "Mind Field," Kalis could do without the three or more year saga it took to get that film made; to him, a video should reflect the skills you can put down on the regular. In keeping with this, Kalis and long-time friend and photographer Ryan Gee logged a ton of bro-cam footage during one of the golden eras of Philadelphia when "The DC Video" was in production and "Photosynthesis" had recently wrapped. Between Philly, Barcelona and even some trips to the Workshop's headquarters in Ohio, Kalis and crew logged tons of clips that might not have made the final cut of major vids but they certainly give you an excellent glimpse into some ill skating from a Dirty Ghetto Kid during a bygone era. Take a look.

The man of unique style also skates uniquely.

The type of skateboarding that Australian Richie Jackson does is as devisive as the clothes he wears. His part in Death Skateboard's video "Escape from Boredom" came out of nowhere, with a lot of polejams, wallrides and no complys. He kept the weirdness alive in "And Now," even showing some of that "traditional" skateboarding we all like. But, the great part of skating is it can include people like Jackson and P-Rod all at the same time. Jackson's uniqueness abounds, however, outside his skating and he has gotten noticed by GQ as a psychadelic style to which to aspire. Read more here