Big Cat

First-ever PSL Exhibition Match @PSLskate

I never thought that starting a “league” was something that I would do, or even want to do. But over the years have been slowly developing new ideas for how we can make it different than any other contest and something that is simplified enough that anyone can watch and understand. A truly objective format seemed like a fun enough idea to explore. So here we are, launching the first ever exhibition match on Jan 25th in LA. With 8 of the best skaters in the world, competing as teams. If you’re interested in coming to the first one, go to our website and sign up and check the “I swear on Sean Malto’s life that I will come to this event” button and I’ll send a private link for free tickets to attend. Only click that Malto button if you’re serious about coming, trying to have as accurate of a head count as possible. The event is Jan 25th and will be filmed and broadcast to our YouTube channel about a week after. Our goal is to make this format as good as possible, so all feedback is welcome. Very interested to see what everyone thinks after they watch the first one. Please share this with anyone that might be interested in what we’re doing and let’s see if this thing flops or succeeds. It will be entertaining to me regardless of the outcome 😂. More updates coming soon @PSLskate. See you Jan 25th 👊🏼👊🏼

Dream collab has come true

Exactly 9 years ago today, I had my crazy injury where I tore my ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL, ruptured popliteal artery, snapped the hamstring off my fibula, and stretched my peroneal nerve causing permanent “drop foot”, which makes it so I can’t lift my foot up, basically being paralyzed. Sad to think my skate career would come to an end at age 24, especially now that I’m 33, I look back and just trip out on how young 24 really is and how much more skating there was left to do. I’ve been through lots of ups and downs of how to mentally handle something I loved doing getting taken away from me. I’ve even gone through a phase where I took it out on skateboarding itself, I basically didn’t want to talk about it, think about it, see it… nothing. I had to fully forget about it. But the last 2 years I started finding my way back to thinking about it and watching it and trying to be involved again one way or another. One of the things that really got my mind to open back up to skating, was judging for @StreetLeague. It just reminded me of traveling and hanging out with all my old friends, which made me realize that skateboarding itself wasn’t even what I fell in love with in the first place, it was just about creating friendships and memories with them. Also throughout the process of mentally accepting skating back into my life, the idea of @AbdCollectibles was born to help preserve the history of skateboarding and the amazing moments that everyone remembers growing up. This project is something I work on every single day and is very special to me and it’s been so fun to do a deep dive on what made me love skateboarding in the first place. It’s been a tough 9 years to be honest, but going through the ups and downs of it has made me better and I am grateful for that. And thank you to everyone that supported me through my whole entire skateboarding career. I could ramble for two hours about this shit. Thank you everyone! ❤️❤️❤️