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Confusion Magazine – issue #9 – free online
Featuring interviews with Jake Snelling (England), Tony Farmer (USA), Bjørn Lillesøe (Denmark), Chris Cope (USA), Jacob Ovgren (Sweden). Skate features include Cruise & Booze (Netherlands), Vert Attack 8 (Sweden) Hot Shit: Chris Gregson and Daan Van Der Linden DIY Skate spot check outs DIY Woods (USA), Billy’s Bowl (Belgium), Australia DIY spots, Darwin DIY (France).
Wavegarden – Northern Bavaria, Germany
Located in Northern Bavaria; Selb skatepark is one of the smoothest and most flowing next level parks designed by Martin Ehrenberger. For Blackriver building parks is an art form, not a business venture; non-profit building at it’s finest!
The Cananal Sessions – Southern Spain
With no judges, sponsors and no rules… just punk, thrash & skateboarding, “The Canal Session“. This was just about skateboarding in one of the most important DIY spots of the skateboarding scene in Spain. The rough ground and the dusty walls of this mythical ditch made the most perfect session in the land of the sun, Toledo.
Concrete Corner Ep. 2 – Basic Tools
On this episode of “Concrete Corner” Clayton Graul shows us the basic tools to build your own DIY skate spot.
Urban Skate Project Crew Goes North (Just to Skate Though)
Some of the Urban Skate Project Crew took a break from building DIY spots in the Los Angeles area and headed north to the Bay Area to try out a couple of the DIY spots they have up there.
Concrete Mini Ramp – Rafina, Athens – Greece
Everything began at our friends old house in Rafina, a suburb of Athens. We were discussing making our own mini ramp, because we sadly lack skateparks here in Greece.
Pura Pura, Bolivia – Un, Dos, Tres, Concrete!
The park is sick. Well most of us left before we got to see it all completed which was a little disheartening, but what was there was rad. The floor is a bit ghetto in places and, in contrast, some of the ramps are professional enough to be seen on a actual official skatepark build – this kind of sums up the entire build: somewhere between a skatepark and doing a DIY job.
Gone But Not Forgotten: OldStar DIY
Not too far inland from the sunny beaches of Venice sat an off the grid renegade skatepark….
Kobwebs DIY – England
It was the summer of 2011 that Frank asked his dad if he could put a little wooden mini ramp in his dad’s old cow shed which was just full of beat up old vans and various bits of knackered old equipment. His dad said he could have one corner of the shed. …
