DIY skate spots

D.I.Y. Skateboarding

Basement Bowl – Titus Skateshop – Cologne, Germany

In late summer we started a very special project in the basement of our store in Cologne. We had that space of approximately 60 square meters and thought of building a little bowl area down there. We had small experience from our DIY projects in Berlin, Münster and Wuppertal. But this project was special.

Jaime Ruiz. Backside air.

Martigny DIY – Switzerland

Juan, Jamie and me were skating this DIY under a bridge in Martigny, Vallis Switzerland. Some local skaters showed us the spot and Jamie tore it a new asshole…”

Mirco Bitterli Frontside Slashing in Helsinki

September Wheels Baltics Tour

The September Wheels summer tour has become a synonym for a great time with friends. This is why no less than 14 people met up in Helsinki last August to skate, eat, drink, sleep in tents and cross the Baltic sea. Somehow we managed to be in Finland for the hottest and sunniest week they had all summer, so we spent our days skating, swimming and sweating.

Rocky’s Bowl Crete Raiser

The creteraiser is to help raise money to finish Rocky’s bowl. All funds raised is for concrete to ad a snake run with a cradle next to the bowl and decks.

Penthouse bowl – Switzerland

Everything started with this ramp at my parents house we skated maybe three years before I moved into my own house. I rebuilt the the ramp to use the corners again and made something that really looks like a pool.

Jim – ollie nose grab to fakie

Drop into the Pissrinne – Bonn, Germany

Down in a passway, where junkies roam and people pee, skaters from Bonn brought some ramps to skate on the Saturday before Christmas. Welcome to the Pissrinne (peegully).

Yavor Stoyanov. Backside transfer.

South Park Sofia DIY – Bulgaria

The spot is located in Sofia the capital of Bulgaria in Eastern Europe. We started building the spot about a year ago, there was only one concrete part of some structure and a lot of junk there, left from some old construction site. We started building there because there is a river and a good amount of junk for the back fill. The main idea was to build obstacles that aren’t built in Sofia and Bulgaria, like DIY curbs and kickers… The spot is built by the local skateboarders for skateboarders.

Oscar Mad. Floripa skatepark

Backyard bowls in Florianópolis – Brazil

“Florianopolis is like no other place in the world. Everywhere you look there are backyards pools built for skating, backyard mini ramps and skate stuff everywhere. Just walking down the street you hear skating in backyards on every block.” – Neal Hendrix

SWAMPTON DIY BOWL (2007 – 2015)

Sadly, Henry “Swampy” Moore’s DIY bowl ‘SWAMPTON’ is no more. So, we’ve complied a little send off edit with the best shredding by Swampy himself – accompanied by Joxa, Jim Spencer and Jacob Tyson.