THE TOURNAMENT 2023 – RAMPUTENE DIY

Last month, The Tournament took place with Cruzade skateboards at Ramputene DIY under the bridge in Donostia/San Sebastian

Frontside judo. Carbondale, Colorado.

The John ‘Dana’ Allison interview

Few people are “Classic” at the ripe age of 20. A “Classic” person is someone like Paul Newman in “Cool Hand Luke”, Clint Eastwood in “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”, or a skateboarder like Alan Petersen or John Cardiel. A “Classic” skateboarder will roll up to a spot, pensively smoke a cigarette in the shadow, sip on a beer, and then quietly annihilate every obstacle in his path. John ‘Dana’ Allison is one of those people.

Kaleb Stevens. Ollie. El Mutante. Costa Rica. Photo: Tony Roberts

Hot Shit: Kaleb Stevens

I first knew of Tony Roberts though his ground breaking surf/skate videos like “Mental Surfing”, “Progression Sessions”, Speed Wheels Santa Cruz “Risk It!” and many more in the early 90s. His films were the best, maybe because there was a lot of cross over between surfing and skating or because he started focusing on the radical aerial surfing of the Santa Cruz locals and was the one who got photos of guys like Ratboy, Flea, and Barney in the surfing magazines which led to their almost instant success and world wide fame and notoriety. I would see TR on the other side of the lens, skating at Derby or hanging out at the spots that we love the most. If anyone was my “hero” growing up in Santa Cruz as a surfer-skater videographer and photographer it was Tony Roberts.

Hot Shit: Thomas Nichols

In our second edition of Confusion’s HOT SHIT web exclusive, we ask ten questions Bacon Skateboards concrete killer Thomas Nichols from Vancouver, Washington.

Hot shit: Dan Pinder

Dan Pinder is an 18 year old skater from Fargo, North Dakota. He doesn’t like contests. He just wants to eat, skate, and shit for a company, and hopefully that is good enough!

Hot shit: Mark Radden

My name is Mark Radden,
I pretty much skate mental,
I am of the species they call human,
I have a passion for all things and people skateboard related,
I am 23 years of age,
I have been skateboarding for about nine, nearly ten years now,
So far nothings faded me yet.