The Weekly Grind - July 7, 2026

Welcome back to The Weekly Grind, San Vanners! Let’s roll! What’s going on? We’re 2 weeks away from X Games San Van, and we’ll be dropping details next week, so get ready!

Our Fingerflips video contest is underway, so make sure to grab a 15-30 second clip featuring fingerflips and drop it on skate.REEL for a chance to win one of the last Year 5/seagull decks. Check here for the rules, requirements, etc.

Don’t forget: Keep sharing your bugs/issues so we can squash ‘em flat.

Let’s dive right into the calendar.

Weekly Calendar

• The Weekly Grind returns (that’s today!)

• New Weekly Tasks (also today!)

• The Stadium General Access* Starts (that’s today from July 7 - 21)

• Global Celebration (July 7-21; Extravert Store rotation starting today!)

• Fingerflips Video Contest is underway!

*What is General Access for The Stadium?

From July 7 - 21, 2026, get access to The Stadium via:

• skate.Premium Pass (unlimited access)

• 250 Rip Chips for a 24 hour Stadium Pass

Coming Up

• The Weekly Grind Interviews

• Design a Deck UGC Contest (July 16-31 in Discord)

• Update 0.31.5 (July 21)

• X Games San Van (July 21 - Aug 25)

What is the Global Celebration? From July 7 - 21, grab a collection of country-themed decks, backgrounds, and player cards with the new Global Celebration items in the Extravert Shop in-game.

More content from the skate. community!

We wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel.

Steam post imageRippin' it on the new Hedgemont park. Credit: SentientOoze

Steam post imageChillin' in Rolling Waves between sessions with a homie, Credit @azzie

Steam post imageJust a couple of ... "dummies". Credit: @Bourbonshire

Part of The Weekly Grind will be dedicated to sharing the current Known Issues the team is tracking, any active deployments/fixes, and next steps.

Known Issues Still Being Investigated:

Fixed:

• Replaced the Waterworks OTL with the Large Barge OTL on Grom to fix the objective tracking issues.

Known Issues Still Being Investigated:

• Some Players are unable to export in MP4 Format.

  • Workaround PC ONLY: Using WebM format when exporting works.

• Rarely, a black screen appears when starting a challenge or throwdown on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

  • Workaround: Rebooting skate. may resolve this issue.

• Pinned tasks do not remain pinned when the game reconnects after inactivity.

• Changing the graphics preset doesn’t update the settings shown at the bottom of the Graphics screen as it should.

• The first step of the Help Wanted mission, Coping Inspector, gets crossed out and doesn't progress when arriving at the target area.

  • Rebooting skate. results in the Mission progressing to the next step

• The option to select between 16:9 centered HUD and full-width and height UI is present but non-functional while in Windowed mode.

• After finishing a Co-op Challenge, party member's names will swap with random ones during the celebration screen.

• Often, players can't climb the scaffolding of M-Corp Tower.

• The image and price of some Bundles are failing to display in the Shop.

• AMD driver 26.6.1 is causing skate. to crash.

  • Workaround: Roll back your drivers to 26.5.2 and restart skate.

• Occasionally, players get a black screen when using fast travel, Session marker, or starting/completing challenges.

• Footplant to Body Flip transition causes immediate bail with Require Grab While Flipping enabled.

• Rip Score popup appears after entering or leaving Stadium or Isle of Grom.

• Using R3 to Quick Travel will also always toggle the Camera Height.

• Level 3 Mastery Task group is mistranslated in Japanese.

• Daily and Mastery Task Sections Sometimes Display Blank Screen.

• Quick Drop radial menu resets temporarily after joining the server.

• Trick landing animations can appear inconsistent after performing a Boned Ollie.

• Flick-It Visualizer disappears after completing a challenge.

• Tailslides and Noseslides are not correctly detected when approaching ledge from its end.

• Game freezes on the social spectate menu or while spectating.

• Friends list sometimes displays multiple entries of the same friend or none at all.

• Wallride detection often causes skater to flip unnaturally.

• Smith to Tailslide task often fails to register when done correctly.