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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.
Diego and Erika

Iberian Peninsula skate trip

Last summer I went on holiday in the Iberian Peninsula. There are more places than just Barcelona to visit there. The people are very nice and every place I went I met rippers!

Daryl Nobbs. Frontside rockslide over the stairs. Gjøvik. Photo: David Jedda

Betongpark boys skating and creating in Norway

A few years ago on a one off build in Norway with a British company, I met a couple of awesome Norwegians with big plans. We kept in touch and soon after they asked me if i wanted to be involved in their Norwegian skatepark venture, for some reason they were under the impression I really knew what I was doing… – Daryl Nobbs

Otis Smith. Invert in his own backyard. Photo: Ken Forsyth

Otis’ pool – Charleston, South Carolina

It was the last session of the season for them before they fill it up for swimming this summer and taking their new rolling hotel / RV on the road. Evidently it is more expensive to keep it drained than filled, the water table is high and the pump runs constantly…

Palmdale Pool Project

“The city (Palmdale) is a suburban dream turned methamphetamine nightmare. A desert retreat for all the misfits, gangsters and drug addicts from Los Angeles to find cheap housing. But as we may all know as skateboarders, these areas make a great destination for back yard pools.”

Psyland – Maya pool 2.0 – Germany

The notorious LITTLE SWASTIKA is re-creating his previous diy pool project, Maya Pool in his new spot called Psyland in southern Germany. There’s a lot of digging going down each day, and in the evening Marc (aka Little Swastika) has his Kritzerl Krazel art show at the Neuwerk großser Saal in Konstanz, Germany, where he will be doing a massive back piece tattoo on four people, open to the public to experience this live art tattoo performance piece.

Confusion Magazine – issue #9 – free online

Featuring interviews with Jake Snelling (England), Tony Farmer (USA), Bjørn Lillesøe (Denmark), Chris Cope (USA), Jacob Ovgren (Sweden). Skate features include Cruise & Booze (Netherlands), Vert Attack 8 (Sweden) Hot Shit: Chris Gregson and Daan Van Der Linden DIY Skate spot check outs DIY Woods (USA), Billy’s Bowl (Belgium), Australia DIY spots, Darwin DIY (France).

Vans Spring Classic – Miniramp skate contest – Riccione, Italy

The Vans Spring Classic is back, for the first time in the seaside town of Riccione, on Italy’s Adriatic Riviera…. The Vans Spring Classics brings “a little Southern Californian lifestyle to European shores, and with it, some of
the world’s best transition riders for a weekend of skateboarding, sunshine and damn good music. “

Pedro Barros over the duncan, aka the hip, aka the penninsula. The most reposted moment x10 of the entire Pool Party.

Vans Pool Party 2015 at the Combi – Orange, California

This Year the Vans Pool Party was just EPIC! These days were crazy at the Vans Skatepark at The Block here in Anaheim, California. All the best bowl skaters from all over the world were there to shred and all of them were hungry to win.

Wavegarden – Northern Bavaria, Germany

Located in Northern Bavaria; Selb skatepark is one of the smoothest and most flowing next level parks designed by Martin Ehrenberger. For Blackriver building parks is an art form, not a business venture; non-profit building at it’s finest!

Carlos Neira. Wallride.

The Cananal Sessions – Southern Spain

With no judges, sponsors and no rules… just punk, thrash & skateboarding, “The Canal Session“. This was just about skateboarding in one of the most important DIY spots of the skateboarding scene in Spain. The rough ground and the dusty walls of this mythical ditch made the most perfect session in the land of the sun, Toledo.

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