La Casita DIY – Malaga, Spain
Down at Fuengirola (south of Spain), the locals had all of the ingredients and the perfect place to build.
Down at Fuengirola (south of Spain), the locals had all of the ingredients and the perfect place to build.
Ripadaguarra exists to create culture. I think here there is room for everyone, and I’m not just talking about skateboarding.
Basque Caravan Tour 2015 was a skate road trip from Bordeaux in France, to Gijón in Spain, crossing the Basque Country with a van, meeting locals skaters and sharing sessions along the coast.
We had the will and that’s what pushed us forward. There were many times, because of interferences by the city council, that we almost stopped and gave up, but pride, strength, and our internal struggles made it possible that after 12 years, that piece of concrete hope still remians, something we built then because we needed a decent place to skate, and as a symbol of protest against a city that discriminated and labeled us delinquents, and still does to this day.
Torsoarama, DIY miniramp session at Malas rampas, is the session you cannot miss. It’s not a contest, it’s basically a perfect skating day. This year, we had it all: good weather, good food and good skaters!
Mondariz, near Vigo, lost in the forest, now a few years that there is a … Keep reading
The town of Zarautz on the Atlantic coast in Basque country has a long skate and surf tradition. A town well known for it’s world surfing championship held every year since the late 1980s also has a skatepark build on the beach back in this time which was a copy of the La Kantera skatepark.
Beginning of the year, new energy, new time to spend looking for new discoveries. Once again, I travel to this peacful place, and just as the before I found more than I expected – and with the skate spots – more than I had ever imagined. This trip turned into a crazy kind of stokin’ “search and find” new DIY and new skateable landscapes inside this atlantic paradise.
The people from Vigo, Galicia searched for a place to skate indoors for more than a year.
October 5th, time to say bye to the summer, because winter is very rainy in the Basque Country and the sun and summer are so valued for us.