To be transparent, I live in Tacoma, and our window in which we view skating is often a bit different than our friends up north in Seattle. I didn’t know about Griff coming up as kid, I was pretty late to the party being a Tacoma dude. In fact I can clearly remember the first time I saw Griff skate, I had made my annual pilgrimage from Tacoma to skate one of Seattles many fine skateparks. While I was up there doing my regular ass, middle of the road skateboarding, I couldn’t help but notice this dude flipping in and out of tricks on all of the ledges in the park. I have no fuckin clue who he was, but I was blown away by his power and technical ability, even when he was just messing around. Shortly after I saw the same kid somewhere on the internet and put it all together that the kid I saw ripping at the park, was Griffin Gass.

Let’s be real, it’s not everyday that a skater gets a pro shoe these days, especially a professional skateboarder from the NW like Griff. Today we gotta give flowers to Seattle’s Griffin Gass, as his Lakai pro-model shoe The Terrace drops online and in skate shops worldwide. In honor of the big day, we thought it would be fitting to go over a few of our favorite parts over the years from Mr. Gass.

The first video we are sharing is the most recent part from Lakai’s Bubble video. Griff’s part is 2nd in the video following Manchild’s opening part. His new pro-model is visible throughout the video, and we gotta admit he makes the shoe look clean. The part has the ledge wizardry we have come to expect from the man, and shit like the Fakie front blunt (or sw bs nose blunt?) flip out in a line was absolutely insane.

The next part we’re showing y’all is the Orca Card edit. This is one of his more recent parts. It’s a well rounded banger of a video with powerful tech skating, fast af lines, creative spots and S tier trick selection.

Griff’s Doll part shows a really fun side of his skating. He’s absolutely hauling ass the whole part, wallie/wallriding everything, handrail chomping, even slappying a bit, and of course stomping tech bangers in lines like we’ve come to expect.

This 35th North part is an older one, but it’s a damn gem still. Griff destroys the greater Seattle area hitting damn near every type of spot and showing a huge variety of skating, with gap to wall rides, wallies to gaps, tech tings and even grinding a curved double kinker just because he can.

To bring this thing home, Griffin Gass rips, and if you watch these parts you will have no doubt about that. What’s also wild is you can probably count on one hand the professional skateboarders from the NW who have had a pro model shoe, so go cop a pair of Griff’s shoe to support this man and give him a big congrats on the big day.