J. Mag testing out the new Viking Blocks at Stappel – Malmö, Sweden
J. Mag (John Magnusson) putting the newly set VIKING BLOCKS pool coping to the test in anticipation of this summer’s Ultra Bowl at Stappelbadsparken in Malmö, Sweden.
J. Mag (John Magnusson) putting the newly set VIKING BLOCKS pool coping to the test in anticipation of this summer’s Ultra Bowl at Stappelbadsparken in Malmö, Sweden.
This article begins with a short intro how we even got to El Puerto de Santa Maria in the first place. The idea was since a long time to go on a long road trip to skate, surf, exhibit our art and play concerts on the way and we finally got the money to do it.
Greymouth bowl, westcoast south island New Zealand. Another epic, huge bowl in a small surfing/fishing town, with black granite pool coping, love seat, extension and taco!
Cholo’s Bowls are permission pools that sit deep in the foliage off the Kings Highway.
One evening, after I finished most of the garden work, Stu and me had a brew and took a closer look at that shed and started to just fantasize about building a little concrete mini there…
Under the surface of big and loud machines are popping out little places hiding much potential for skateboarding and DIY. In the little town of Flémalle, in the suburbs of Liège, a few young and highly motivated skaters explored their living environment for places of freedom and imagination.
…Bruay la Buissiere is still one of the deepest in Europe and we’ll see who’s gonna make the grind from deep to shallow end first, especially on the pool coping side.
2014 R&R SK8 CONTEST celebrated March 29th, in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz.
The last bit was filthy. It was just pure stinking sludge, frogs and lizards everywhere. Finally we cleaned it completely then we gave it a quick wash down, waited for it to dry and skated it for about an hour before dark.
Basically the story is it was built about a decade ago by a local pond builder and basically consisted of a sketchy snake run to what can only be described as the shallow end of a pool.
A great adventure that started with nothing. Everybody paid for concretes bags themselves, and we build it as it comes!
No plans, no rules, just Rock’n’Roll and fun.