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Vert Attack 5 – Malmö, Sweden – 2011

Filmed & Edited: Jonathan Hay
Additional footage: Björn Klotz

“This is an inspiration for the rest of the world to get back into vert skating“
(Christian Hosoi at Vert Attack 5)

VERT ATTACK 5 – the (european) Resurrection of Vert!
Malmö, Sweden
February 5th, 2011

Words by Volker Lux
Photos by Fred Ferand and J. Hay

VERT ATTACK 5 was one hell of a contest at the huge vert skater gathering in Malmö, Sweden.
VERT IS BACK! After the fifth edition of the “European Midvert Championships” it’s getting ridiculous to deny this. That was already the case even after last winter’s Vert Attack 4, when 67 european vert skaters had celebrated an incredible day of vert at its best.

Andy Scott killed it last time, worth to watch it again and again on vimeo.com. And he did it strictly based on lip tricks, so many, wall-to-wall.

Almost everyone came back this year. And everyone made promotion for VA5 among their friends. It started with Jeff Hedges, confirming american legends were confirmed for this comp as well.
Cab and Hosoi followed. Neal Hendrix had already confirmed, followed by Alex Perelson.

Alex Perelson

Christian Hosoi

Steve Caballero. Photo: Hay

Sounds like a huge event with the biggest financial support by a major sponsor, but hardly any money was involved – the main sponsor was again the city of Malmö! No prize money was needed to attract the scene. It was a troop of vert warriors and veterans, hitting the drums for the Vert Attack via facebook and other new social medias. The tension grew larger each day as skaters posted about Vert Attack. The latest confirmation, a day before the comp was that Rune Glifberg would also be showing up! Rune is from Copenhagen, Denmark, just a bridge away from Malmö. But he has lived in the USA for almost two decades and hadn’t shown up for the first five years of the event.

In 2010 for Vert Attack 4, the time was already tight to let 67 vert riders compete in only one day. How many would come this year? Over 100 competitors seemed possible, especially after the US-Masters had confirmed. Hard to say how many vert riders there were among the crowd… luckily the number of competitors stayed manageable. 16 young guns, 51 pros and ams, and 20 masters (over 40 years). A total of 87! Never before in europe had such a big vert comp gone down!

At this point one name should get dropped for the first time in this report: John Magnusson. The VERT ATTACK is his master piece. He is an all round skater with biggest skills in bowl and vert. Besides running his own skate companies he works for Bryggeriet, the skateboard club of Malmö, to which the skatepark where VERT ATTACK took off belongs. In the past decade he’s been working really hard to get Malmö on the map with new skateparks and events. He brought Quiksilver Bowlriders to Malmö and organizes the Malmö ULTRA BOWL, which last time was dominated by US-rippers from Bacon, Addikt and Powell.

Cab, Hosoi and Ffej visited a classroom of the school and were impressed by their standards. Scandinavia, especially Sweden, is well known for high standards in education and youth work.
Cab: “Stoked to see that they actually have a school where you can learn media and skate.”

Steve Caballero. Photo: Hay

Christian Hosoi

Jeff Hedges

Like every year the one and only skatedoc Patrik Bergholtz made the introduction of the event – on his guitar! Lights off, spotlight on, and Patrick played the guitar hero with his own vert attack song!

The youngsters were the first to go. Rippers from four different nations made it to the final: Germany, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom. The 13 year young Mathew Carlisle from UK won the juniors, with Frontside Rodeos and gaytwists at coping height or backside 180 varials over the channel!

Pros and Ams still competed together in one group. (In 2010 there was no separation at all: all competitors joined well mixed heats!) The biggest contenders were last years winners Andy Scott (in 2010), Sam Bosworth (4th in 2010), Sam Beckett (5th) from UK and Jussi Korhonen (2nd) from Finland, next to “newcomers“ Alex Perelson, Neal Hendrix, Rune Glifberg and Adil Dyani. Adil now lives in Norway again, after many years in California, which had improved his skills a lot.

Adil Dyani

Sam Beckett. Photo: Hay

Jussi Korhonen

Sam Bosworth

There are more names to mention, talking about a top european vert comp: Oskar Gydell, Mattias Svensson, Jocke Olsson, Stephen White and Macki “Vertboy” from Sweden, Alex Halford and Jake Anderson from UK, Thomas Madsen from Denmark, Jon Pedersen from Norway, and local Mattias Nylen played major roles in last years’ Vert Attacks.

Mattias Nylen. Photo: Hay

Most of them didn’t make it to the finals this year. But who did was the second youngest pro/am competitor, Jake Anderson from England. Ever heard of this guy?? I had seen him at VA4 for the first time, but did not think of him again until this year. One thing to keep in mind from now on is that he became a father last August! At the age of 16! I was told he rips much harder since his son was born. At Vert Attack 5 he proved that, especially with his amazing last run, adding spin and twist airs wall to wall as if he’d be Andy Mac Jr.! How incredible that this “unknown father kid“ could beat the whole european vert elite, Alex Perelson and Rune Glifberg, who were also ripping like hell!!!

Jake Anderson

Alex Perelson. Photo: Hay

Rune Glifberg

The pro final was rad, but the masters final was more important to me. My expectations for the master heats had risen pretty high after I had become aware that there would be a reunion with legends like Cab, Hosoi, Anders and Ffej. I’ve known Ffej since 1988 when he visited the first vert ramp I had built in my hometown of Bonn, Germany. In that year he became World Champion of Vert Amateurs in Münster, taking out previous year’s winner Anders Tellen (“Pulpanek“). Now, 22.5 years later, they were put in the same heat again! With Cab and Hosoi, also the two winners of the pro division in 1988 entering the Masters of Vert Attack! By the way: in 1988 Cab took first place in vert, Hosoi second, and Hosoi took first in street, where Cab took second! Ffej had won both Vert and Street Amateur!

Anders Tellen

Steve Caballero. Photo: Hay

My emotions grew even stronger when I found out I was in one heat with Hosoi, having to skate right behind him! Would I have imagined this in 88?? Hearing Hosoi talk in the well-prepared interviews by vert skaters Bjorn Handell (Malmö) and Robert Ayton (UK), there was no doubt Christian had changed a lot since then. On the ramp it was still the old Hosoi: tons of style, highest unique airs and his characteristic pro allures. Such a pleasure to be able to witness this again after so many years. That Cab would also be ripping like hell was not that surprising – Cab has always been around. But seeing Jeff “ffeJ“ Hedges after his 15-years-riding-break almost made me shiver.

It’s always a pleasure to see Sean Goff doing his never ending variety of rare tricks, with many foot and handplants and layback airs.

Sean Goff - bastard plant. Photo: Hay

Anders Tellen had such amazing runs he almost could have won the masters final. Tuck knee inverts to fakie, over the channel, high airs, aggressive style, endless runs… Anders will always remain a candidate for the masters’ podium, but missed it slightly this time.

Hosoi launched himself into 3rd place with rocket airs and the highest backside air pulled in this final. Nicky Guerrero took second place. Now he skates even better than when he turned european champion frequently in the late 80s. Steve Caballero really enjoyed the ramp (as most riders did!) and did the longest runs with a great mixture of all kinds of tricks. He took home the nicest trophy!

Christian Hosoi

Nicky Guerrero. Photo: Hay

Talking with John Magnusson about the big success of VERT ATTACK he stated the following:

“I think there is one thing that‘s been a key for success of Vert Attack…. The ramp. It’s smaller, oldschool dimension but with a new touch, corner, blocks, channel. This makes it possible for more dudes to do good in the contest. I love vert but the last 10 to 15 years I‘ve been missing a lot of liptricks. You have to spin to make good. It was so good to see Andy Scott win vert attack 4 with almost only liptricks. One strategy with our vertramp has been to try and get more bowl skaters into vert skating instead of building it bigger for only the vertskaters. I think if the bowl skaters learn how to skate vert we can get that good feeling of vert skating again!!! We need to get new riders in to spice it all up. I had that feeling at Vert attack 5. It felt like a resurrection!!!”

Stan Postmus once again did a great job as the annual VERT ATTACK speaker. This dutch skater is already well known from the BOWLBASH series and many other skate comps.

Big thanks goes out to John Mag, and also to his crew at Brygerriet – Nils, Tobias, Pata, Erik, Kami, Pekka, Morgan, Kent and Andrea. – Volker Lux

Don’t Miss the LIVE WEBCAST of VERT ATTACK 6
Friday 27th at 14:00 and Saturday 28th at 13:00 on skatemalmo.se

PROS & AMs:

Alex Halford. Photo: Hay

Kevin Wenzke. Photo: Hay

Andreas SNOKEN Lindström. Photo: Hay

Sam Beckett. Photo: Hay

Andy Scott

Neal Hendrix

MASTERS:

Anders Tellen. Photo: Hay

Christian Hosoi. Photo: Hay

Nicky Guerrero. Photo: Hay

Anders Tellen. Photo: Hay

Nicky Guerrero. Photo: Hay

Jeff FFEJ Hedges. Photo: Hay

Anders "POOLPANIC" Tellen. Photo: Hay

Cab and Ffej. Photo: Hay

Nicky Guerrero. Photo: Hay

Sean Goff. Photo: Hay

Nicky Guerrero

Bruno Rouland

Anders Tellen

The author of this article, VOLKER LUX, invert at Vert Attack 5. Photo: David Östlund

VERT ATTACK 6 – January 27th & January 28th!
LIVE WEBCAST – Friday 27th at 14:00 and Saturday 28th at 13:00 – skatemalmo.se.

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Confusion Magazine – Issue #4

Confusion Magazine - Issue #4 cover
Stevie Thompson - FS Rock. East Sussex, England. Photo: Richard West

CONFUSION MAGAZINE issue #4 is at the printers and will be released the end of January!

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And on-location reports from: Mellowpark DIY (Berlin, Germany), Pumpa Bowl (Slovenia), Felem Bowl (Japan), and Owl Bowl (Cologne, Germany).

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Rampenlicht Project – Berlin

Rampenlicht – Berlin. Street Culture and Skateboarding
Art show opening of the triangle miniramp.
January 21st. 17:00, Stattbad Wedding, Berlin.
Amateur Design Workshop   Performance + Live Music from 19:00-22:00h
Artwork by Tadej Vaukman and Basta.

With performances from:
Martine Heuser
Helmut Vutuc Lampshade
We Are Camera
and many more…

Today, there is a major part of society that acknowledges skateboarding as a sport, yet there are still many who are not familiar with the word and the idea behind it.

Even though outsiders can easily recognize the appearance of a skateboarder, it is difficult to fully understand the movement as a whole since it seems to be somewhat of a closed off culture.

Typically consisting of specific behavior, clothing and the unavoidable noise, a neutral opinion, or even disinterest in skate culture is understandable.

In addition to the fact that skateboarding is a complex sequence of movements, what is also fascinating is the skater’s unique translation of architecture, however many of these artistic elements, especially including creativity and aesthetics, are not commonly recognized. Still, the few that do proceed to take their boards, cruise around, learn the first tricks, go to the closest skate park, check out the ramps and create ways to use them, hit the streets, and search for materials and geometric forms creating their own imaginary skate park.

Skateboarding.
An urban art that stems from surfers in the 60s looking for a way to ply the waves inland by attaching skate wheels to a piece of wood hence the beginning of ‘Sidewalk Surfing’ and the skating of empty swimming pools. A new spirit was born that evolved to a whole new level of surfing in the streets. Now where has this spirit gone?

"An empty swimming pool is an attractive riding site, but it's even dangerous for a competent rider."

As skate culture advanced, it changed with the rise of modern society and created a conflict between the existential spirit from the past and the prospering of the skateboard industry.

In search of a balance between these two extremes, we are returning to the empty swimming pool.

From the water, to the pool, to the street, now back to the pool, this time modifying it with a triangular ramp normally only found in the streets.

The project will be a transformation process, altering the original purpose of both structures.

Within the exhibition at Stattbad Wedding, skateboarding should be experienced in its purest form, separated as far as possible from its contemporary influences.

The ramp is now being extracted from its natural environment, and becomes an artifact one would typically find in a museum.

The experience requires an innocent involvement with a subculture, which is still very young, yet seemingly fully developed.

Striving for an open perception.
Resisting socialized behavior.
Rampenlicht.

Rampenlicht (German ‘Spotlight’, but also a combination of the words “ramp” and “light”) is an art project conceived and financed by a group of young students and artists residing in Berlin. Everyone participating in this group exhibition will get the chance to experience their own creativity without selling out or pursuing any another purpose to their art but expression and development. For this reason, the young collective 3eck, (German ‘Triangle’) developed a concept in cooperation with urban arts gallery Stattbad Wedding, which will be briefly introduced in the following.

The name of the project “Rampenlicht” stands for a nine-week happening, which can be divided into two parts:

A three week “construction and preparation phase” where all the participants work side by side to install the exhibition, followed by a six-week phase during which the results of the work will be open to the public and a comprehensive program will fill the exhibition with life.

The first phase of the project begins with the construction of the focal piece: a triangular skateboard ramp, which will be extracted from its ‘natural’ environment and modified to serve a different purpose than originally intended. It will be a symbol of harmony within the collective, and at the same time a symbol of disharmony within today’s society. It is representative of the main topic of the exhibition and will therefore be the central point of the happenings.Around this piece of carpentry, the collective will create an atmosphere that opposes a dystopian, exaggerated reality with a surreal dreamlike utopia. Various forms of contemporary art, such as painting, videography, photography, sculpture, installation, etc., will be used to reach this goal.

The second phase of the project embarks with the opening of the exhibition on January 21, 2012. From this day on, the exhibition will be open to visitors who can follow a path of exhibits to understand the thoughts and theories of the artists and delve into the imaginary world of the collective. Spiraling through all the gallery rooms, the visitor is guided towards the extensive hall, and finally to the ramp.

Aside from its symbolism, it is also an object to be experienced. It invites the visitor to interact. Everyone can touch the ramp, step onto the ramp, and discover the ramp.

The ramp will also be used as a stage for musicians and authors, performance artists, as well as comedians and actors during the 6-week exhibition period.

The intention of the project is to uncover something new in everyone participating, whether artist or visitor, it is supposed to get you thinking – without any expectations.

The project is entirely financed by the collective; no sponsors, no affiliates, no outside funding.

“Why?”, is the question that comes to mind when one is confronted with such a statement, and there are many reasons in response:

The chance to be able to realize a project in the way of ones own liking, without the limitations and restrictions that come from a third party.

The liberty of not being forced to ask for help or permission.

To experience the actual value of the cause itself.

The devotion to learn, and to not expect anything in return for efforts made.

To remain true to ones self, and exemplify what many seem to have forgotten.

When you are confident and ready to strive for what you want and overcome your limitations, you’ll accomplish things you never dared to dream of. Rampenlicht.

Article by Tim Herten
Illustration by Amy Centner

Henning. Boneless alley oop.

The making of Rampenlicht’s 3er.

More info: das-3eck@web.de
rampenlicht-berlin.tumblr.com
stattbad.net

This is how it all started:

Jan 19, 2012 | Categories: Art, Skateboarding | Tags: berlin, empty, germany, pool, project, Rampenlicht, swimming | Leave A Comment »

CONFUSION MAGAZINE – Issue #3 – Free Online Download

Issue #4 is at the printers and is due out January 27th.

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Issue #3 featured: Josh Mattson, Dave Nelson, Johannes Gabler, Craig “Questions” Scott, Keith “Meekster” Meek (USA), and Jimbo Phillips.

And on-location reports from: Cuatro Casas (Baja, Mexico), Graveside DIY (Hawaii), Mooscrete DIY (Germany), and Innsbruck DIY (Austria)

Confusion Magazine represents the underground, DIY international skate scene and culture; the under represented, not the over promoted. Available at hardcore skate shops around the world.

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Moos Barn DIY (part 2) – Konstanz, Germany

Cradle construction

“…so one evening we cut some transitions and were just trying out what we could do. With some cheating here and there and some big ass experience from jörg we took some time but finally we built a cradle which runs from a flatwall with 160cm tranny into a cradle and on the other side into a 220cm tranny. At least you must go for 10 o’clock or you will not make it over the hole…” – Little Swastika

Marc 'little swastika' blunt to fakie. photo: pipeshots.com

Black and white photos by: Piper (pipeshots.com)

Disclaimer: If you have a problem with the name “little swastika” educate yourself on the history of the swastika on marc’s website, where he states: “fight against racism – the hate by stupid idiots, but not against a sign – because it’s innocent.”

“The Swastika: in Europe, especially in Germany, most people know it as a right-wing symbol of the Nazis, Hitler’s emblem and banner of the “German Empire” below which crime and war were brought to our world. However the symbol had originally a complete different meaning. The Swastikacrux is one of the oldest symbols. It has been used for thousands of years in nearly every culture as a positive sign of luck….” read more >

Building materials.

Kasp. Backside smith.

Construction

Alex.

And some crazy ballroom skate action in the Moos Barn…

Marc 'little swastika' smith grind around the corner.

Lukas frontside grinding the hip.

Juli. Backside air.

Full article featured in CONFUSION MAGAZINE issue #4, about the development of the Moos Barn due out the end of January 2012.

Jan 10, 2012 | Categories: Skateboarding | Tags: barn, concrete, construction, cradle, crete, d.i.y, diy, germany, little swastika, marc, moos, nazi, swastika | 1 Comment »

The Beauty – DIY Zürich, Switzerland

“After finishing THE BEAST this fall, for all of us it was as clear as a backside air that we needed a winter residence to pass this cold, ugly swiss winter. So please say hello to THE BEAUTY!

As we had finished the first building step, THE BEAUTY was ready for her first action filled night. A “MOTÖRHEAD ONLY” playlist, a bucket full of cheap, heated red wine and a good crew of friends was all we needed for an epic session.” – Nicolas Büchi

Luki. 7 foot long feeble on the pool coping of the concrete quarter.

Ivo on the otherside. Powerslide wallrides to fakie on a brick wall aren't easy!

Retro. Drop from the wood beam. Trick of the night! And he did it 3 or 4 more times, because he can and it's fun!

Schumi, the only one NOT drunk that night, having fun with back to the roof wallrides.

Ivo. Back tail.

Schumi tried to get the highest, but slammed his head a few times on the roof.

Möhre... having a lick.

Color photos above by Nicholas Büchi.
B&W photos below by Christoph Spiess.

Check out SEPTEMBER WHEELS for more Swiss D.I.Y. and more….

Issue #4 of Confusion Magazine features September Wheels road trip from Switzerland to Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy. You might want to get yourself a subscription!

Jan 06, 2012 | Categories: Skateboarding | Tags: basement, beast, beauty, concrete, d.i.y, diy, mini, ramp, ride, september, swiss, switzerland, wall, wallride, wallrides, wheels | Leave A Comment »

Praca Duó Project, Rio de Janeiro

Mattias Nylen is a gnarly bowl and vert skater who works part time building concrete parks in Sweden. He recently flew down from Malmö, Sweden to Rio de Janeiro and has been renovating the Praca Duó Project, currently with a “shark fin”.

This just in from Mattias (January 9th, 2012):

“My friend Fabio in Rio showed me his local bowl which was super slow with some weak mellow trannies and asked if we could do something about it. So we built a vert extention and it turned out really nice but we still didn’t have much speed to hit it so we decided to build a taco thing to carve and pick up speed for the extention. While we put up the bricks for the structure we took a break had some beers and I got the idea, “let’s make a hip on it so we can still carve it.” So what was gonna be a taco tuned into a sharks fin. It was real hard work with very basic tools, all hand mixed but a lot of locals helped out, even the tranvestite street whores wanted to help mixing hahahaha. The thing works well and is real fun. If you are in Rio go to Praca Duó in Barra da Tijuca. Check it out!”

Checking out Brazil's latest creations.

Mattias Nylen before his trip down to Brazil. Backside disaster on the hip. Flora Bowl. Hamburg, Germany. Photo: J. Hay

Jan 05, 2012 | Categories: Skateboarding | Tags: brazil, concrete, d.i.y, diy, Mattias Nylen, praca duó, project, rio, rio de janeiro, south america | 1 Comment »

The Kevin Wenzke Interview

Kevin Wenzke is one of the best all around transition rippers in Germany. At 22 years old, destroying any new bowl or ramp built on European soil, as well as the older concrete relics from the past, Kevin has a bright future in skateboarding. He has already appeared on the cover of at least five European skateboard magazines and he’s just getting started. We were close to interviewing Kevin for issue #3 of Confusion Magazine but he had a bad knee injury which took him out for about eight months last May, so we couldn’t complete the feature. Here’s a short interview with some photos taken right before his injury, and a few older photos and sequences. Be on the look out for a full feature with Kevin in 2012 with all new photos as he completes his recovery and returns to slay the concrete bowls across the lands! - J. Hay

Age, birth town, living now, and how many years skateboarding?
22, born in Herne, Germany. Living there too, skating since 2003 or so…

How did you first get interested in skateboarding?
I saw a halfpipe contest on TV and was totally impressed by all these airs and grinds and then I wanted to learn it and got a cheap board from Intertoys and began to learn drop ins in a small miniramp here in Herne.

Backside Boneless. Factory Bowl. Düsseldorf, Germany. Photo: Christian Hesterkamp

Who pays you or gives you free stuff to represent them as a skateboarder?
Vans, Pavel Skates, Independent and Mob Grip (Jefferson Dist.), Hoax, Muckefuck Wheels, Titus Essen.

Which skaters do you admire or who influences you in USA?
Wow, there are sooo many…Cardiel, Raven Tershy, Tony Trujillo, Peter Hewitt, Cardiel, Skreech, the whole creature team, Ben Raybourne, Chris Miller and John Cardiel!

And who in Europe?
Anders Tellen, Ferit Batir, Pudi Görger, Matt Grabowski, Jürgen Horrwarth, Guillaume Mocquin, Ivan Rivado, Julien Benoliel, The Pavel Family and much more…

Frontside air. Mechelen, Belgium. Photo: Gerd Rieger

What type of music are you into?
The Hellacopters, Motörhead, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Pink Floyd, Gluecifer, Thunder Express, Nihilist, Kreator, Slayer…….

Stalefish. OMSA Pool. Photo: Michele Danzé

What do you do when you can’t skate, because of the weather or injuries?
Mostly I play guitar. Recently I have a rehearsal space with some friends and it’s just great there!

Worst injury? How did it happen?
My meniscus was destroyed and I had a knee surgery and hopefully by the time this comes out I can skate again! It happened on a little skate demo in Düsseldorf. There was a jump ramp and a fun session and then I landed bad and after 20 minutes my knee was big like a football..