Grim Creepers skate jam – Northcote, Melbourne
The Grim Creepers put on a great skate Jam at Northcote Skate Park in Melbourne just before Christmas, so I went down with a few mates to check it out.
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Kiel DIY – northern Germany
Ever since I saw Pontus Alv’s “Strongest of the Strange” I wanted to build some skate stuff myself. The film blew my mind // great skating, artwork and DIY, but especially the short moaning scene. It sounded all so familiar to me: no time, no spots to skate, no motivation.
Agarasa Base – Nagahama, Japan
AGARASA BASE is a skatepark I made in Nagahama, in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan. I spent about three years building the park in my backyard.
Valley Center Skate Spot – California
I started going to meetings and pitching the idea for a skate park in my home town of Valley Center, California about five years ago. At that time they, parks and rec., said there was no money for something like that so I didn’t pursue it for another year, until I saw a sign for and new sports field to be built.
Nochevieja – La Kantera – Basque Country
The locals of La Kantera have a town tradition where on the last day of the year they skate in costumes and bomb a hill ending up at La Kantera skatepark.
Überseestadt skatepark – Bremen, Germany
A few weeks ago I visited my friend Matt from Minus Ramps and Pools. I hadn’t seen him for more then two and a half years. Reason enough to go for that ten hour drive from my place to Matt’s home. Another good reason was that Soup, the mastermind behind General Sherman’s Radius Floats, was visiting Matt. I had planned to stay just for the weekend, but I soon realized that this was not enough time.
THE RATSISTENCE!!!! – PART 4
Skateboarding at Bowlarama, Getxo (Basque country) with Chris Russell, Pedro Barros, Giorgio Zattoni, Maunel Alvarez, Pedro “Pope” Tomas, Jaime Mateu, Diego Cuevas, Josep Cevera, Tomas Varela, Moski, Ivan Rivado, Enriques Giles and more…
Confusion Magazine – Issue #10 – out now
Featuring interviews with Cody Lockwood, Aref Bobby Koushesh, and artist French. DIY Skate spot check outs on Salamander Ranch (USA), Bob’s Spot (England), Wörgl DIY (Austria), and Down by the River (France). And way way more…
872 DIY bowl project – France
DIY spot in France (Thouars in Deux-Sevres). This is the 872 DIY bowl project, just near a bridge which was built by Gustave Eiffel company in 1872.
Confusion Magazine – issue #8 – free online
Issue #8 features interviews with:
Frank Shaw, Sox (Wales), Zombie Stu, Mike Neider from B’last , Lovenskate in Bilbao (Basque), Ramp Jam 4, Belgium, Scene Report – Cadiz, Spain plus DIY skate spot check outs DIY Skate spot check outs: Bluestone (Australia), Port Land (Switzerland), PFK Skate support center (Japan), Bangkok Bowl (Thailand).
DIY Szaber Bowl – Poland
It was January 2014, together with my friend after a few beers we decided to build a concrete pool in the heart of Warsaw under the bridge where I was previously involved with POWISLE DIY project. We were pissed off because of many things like the fact diy culture is still not that big in Poland, all the bowls at the parks are really bad and mellow and don’t even have good coping