1st Floor is the biggest concrete indoor DIY spot in Poland and probably in whole Europe (*see editors note at bottom). It is located in Lublin, a city in the eastern part of Poland. The history of 1st Floor started in the autumn of 2010, when local skaters cleaned up part of an abandoned building, in order to have a place to skate in the winter time. Jacek Harasimiuk, a local skater, put a bunch of photos from that day on his blog.
Biggest concrete bowl party of the year. Münster, Germany. Monster Bowl. Concrete. Airs. Lip tricks. Beer. Schnapps. Ben Schroeder. Party. Adolescents. Big rail. Beer. Party. Blood. Puke. Passed out. Blacked out. Photographic memories to the rescue.
Our buddy Tadashi Yamaoda, over at KOBRAH Magazine just put out this video of a bunch of SF/Oakland bay area shredders.
With a holy death and the devil there waiting on the ramp, the hordes of skaters were already preparing to enter the infernal ramp, the coven was served, and everyone would fight to get the keys of hell.
Some underground rippers, a couple old men with pads, some surfers, a chick, has-beens & never-beens, and only a few pros.
At first I just planned to build a small curb, but after a short reflection I had the idea to try to do a small corner (80 cm high). The place in front of the house was made with large dark pavement, so i thought that a nice curve made with the same kind of pavement could become a pretty nice spot.
Holy shit, what a weekend in the little town of Brixlegg. As I am writing, I am still trying to recover from the after Party, but let’s get to that later. In the heart of the Alps in Austria, the bowl skating scene witnessed concrete mayhem at it’s finest!— Chris Cab
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.
Twenty years of Guineueta skatepark and next year is the 10th anniversary of the corner me and my friend Dany built… Barcelona didn’t have any skateparks, everything was shit and we needed to build something to skate a real one… that was the idea of building that D.I.Y.
After the ULTRABOWL IV in Malmö, Sweden, a few different skate tours were underway across Europe, and the first stop on the way to “mainland” Europe is through Copenhagen. There are at least three sick skate spots in Copenhagen, one of which is the semi new Faelledparken skatepark where they had the Copenhagen Pro the last two years. The main two tours that Confusion ran into were LIFEBLOOD skateboards and the INDEPENDENT Trucks, but in addition there were a couple renegade tours passing through…
Fun bowl and park, if you know anyone who wants to ride a rad bowl this weekend… – Mike Van der Ouderaa
Here is a short clip of my three-exhibition Tour in germany this summer. We edited it in one day at Confusion Magazine headquarters in Köln.
It was filmed by Piper, Sergej Vutuc, Jonathan Hay and myself on fairly simple cameras. A very low budget production but really high in fun, liebe and other vitamin-rich ingredients. – Fernando Elvira