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Confusion is an underground skateboarding magazine with a primary interest in DIY skate spots and skater built concrete parks in local scenes all over the world. The magazine also covers sub-genres of these underground scenes with a partial focus on somewhat undiscovered music, art and hardcore surfing.

East Perth DIY – Western Australia

Delve into the oddities of this little DIY, situated next to a dead power plant on the banks of a shark infested river, in the worlds most isolated city.

LA HAZA DIY – Tenerife, Canary Islands

I was thinking about it since I first saw that ruined place, almost twelve years ago… but the principal reason was to quit going to skateparks where there is plenty of stupidity and fake people – small places big hells – I started right after the pandemic…

UK Empty Pool

A lot of British skaters that skate transition and bowls often dream of skating an actual pool. We watch pool skating clips and look longingly at the pictures in magazines but 99% of pools in the UK are the rectangle kind with straight sides, nothing like the curved bottomed pools in California with blue tiles and intricate metal covered lights and chunky coping.

Can we please fuck off

Many moons ago, in a land not so far away, 10 skaters from across europe joined forces to reach a common goal: complete annihilation of England….

They failed, having to flee home after barely surviving the South.

Colorado Chili Cookoff

Every year the Denver danglers host their annual chili cookoff, a backyard skateboard jam with the best chili competition.

Resurrected: The 8th Annual Less Than Local Halloween Jam

By day, it lives as a pit stop for those seeking employment and headrest central. A rainy-day safe haven. And by night it’s a nocturnal hideaway the destitute grip as a concrete congregation section. The Home Depot DIY in Los Angeles has been embraced by many, but there’s one group who calls this glass shard setting home once a year in the wee hours, Less Than Local.

THE TOURNAMENT 2025

Last October 11th, the Tournament took place, organized by Cruzade skateboards and the guys from Ramputene DIY, the venue where it was held. For those of you who know the Tournament, it’s not easy to explain… Pure skating, a lot of hype, tricks and more tricks, laughter and more laughter… The Tournament is held to raise money to buy cement for the DIY shop itself, and above all, to get together and have a great skating session….

SAVE DIY – Vol. 1

This documentary series is a timely response dedicated to grassroots activism and policy discourse.

A Glimpse Into Thomas Campbell’s World and the Making of YI-WO

YI-WO is a prayer, a habitual ritualistic gaze into the depths of the vast unknowable. YI-WO is a celebration of very purposely selected forms of the connective water sliding pursuits. It’s a poem, a place to be or not to be untangled. A space for your time, to possibly honor the practice, this existence and the paths potential dimensional expansive qualities.