WKND Skateboards just dropped something heavy. Like literally!
To celebrate a full decade of clips, chaos, and creativity, Grant Yansura and the crew put together a thick 438-page photo book titled WKND: THE FIRST 10 YEARS. And yeah, it's as packed as it sounds.
The book is available now at select shops and on their site, WKNDBRAND.com, and it’s not just some polished retrospective.
It’s more like rifling through a well-worn office drawer filled with old polaroids, scraps of paper, weird screenshots, and the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff that usually never sees the light of day.
There's also a bunch of interviews with their team riders, and the whole thing is annotated by Yansura himself, who refers to himself as the “self-proclaimed CEO and director.”
The book covers their early days skating out of garages to the warehouse days that followed.
If you've been watching their edits over the years from full-lengths to those lo-fi Instagram clips - you'll probably appreciate how this book captures all the stuff in between.
The parts that didn’t make it into videos, the candid stuff, and the day-to-day of running a skate brand that’s always done things their own way.
Skateboarding doesn’t usually get documented like this unless someone’s hanging it up for good or winning awards.
But WKND's not going anywhere. They just felt like it was time to put their first decade in print and share some stuff that fans (and maybe even the riders themselves) haven’t seen before.
If you've ever followed WKND, you already know they don’t take themselves too seriously. And that’s what makes this release extra fun.
It’s not a boring museum-style skate archive. It’s more like a scrapbook made by your favorite weirdo friends who somehow built a brand along the way.