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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.

Mas Momentos, Mas Amigos – Ecuador

For me it started with losing Serge at the gate. Last calls were being made and the dude was nowhere! Finally I discovered him being accompanied by a police officer… while the stewardess was hurrying us inside, he told me: they wanted to look inside the tool box, they asked: wtf are you planning to do?

Chateau Melle – Squat Pool – Belgium

This bowl was built by the Concrete Dreams crew in a squat in Melle in an old swimming pool with the original pool coping to make some proper noise!

OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS

Flash flooding has recently devastated this area and many are in crisis. You can help the community by donating to relief funds.

Bollerdamm – bridge over troubled quarters

Rollerdamm DIY in Vienna didn’t waste much time asking for permission when they started turning a shitty, junked up ditch, well hidden underneath a freeway bridge, into a one of a kind little skate refuge.

Pumf Plaza DIY – Ramsbottom, England

When Covid kicked in and we got furloughed and told to stay indoors, we were straight down the building. It was hidden away, no one could bother us and the weather was red hot.

The Chamrousse DIY project (video)

This summer, an army of skate masons from all over Europe gathered in Chamrousse in the French Alps to voluntarily complete the third phase of construction of its DIY skatepark

PNS Bowl – La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

In 2011, when it was obvious that our beloved Bowl de L’ancienne had to be removed, we looked for a new place to move it to. We found a home just beside the indoor skatepark PNS in La Chaux-de-Fonds located in an old slaughterhouse.