La Cave DIY – France
Last year, Jo Dezecot decided to take it easy and retreat to the country side where he could locate his whole family under a safe and quiet roof. Until he realized the house came with a cave!
Last year, Jo Dezecot decided to take it easy and retreat to the country side where he could locate his whole family under a safe and quiet roof. Until he realized the house came with a cave!
Based on free entrance, cheap beer, good music bands and huge skateboard sessions, this story had started from nothing. No money to make the stage, no wood to build the skatepark, the bands were plugged on an old tractor power take-off and the park was built out of pallets and plywood found here and there, sometimes during the night when everybody was asleep! These are just a few examples of what DIY means!
Zutskatepark in Mimizan, France. This bowl is big! We can’t understand why skaters in France and Spain in the beginning don’t want big trannies. Skateboarding Is everything… Big trannies, pools , halfpipes, flow parks , skate plazas, street areas. Imagine a street area with really little planters and hubbas. That’s stupid. No limits… Kids are the future and they don’t need limits. They need more and more…. zutskateparks wants to make skateboarding bigger, that’s all…
Basque Caravan Tour 15 – Episode 2 (France / Basque)
A Blk/Mark video production in color, in collaboration with Confusion Magazine and Beer City Records. … Keep reading
In early February this year, Jeremy, the owner invited the whole team Defocus Skateboards team to test the concrete. The bowl was just finished two weekends before, the pool coping adjusted, and a special product put on the concrete to clean it.
I have my garden, I am manual worker, I understand approximately how to build a concrete bowl. I had to take the time needed, behind my straight face it is vital for me – a sort of question of life or death.
I’ve never been satisfied to just skate the surrounding spots in my area. I’m always looking for new places and when I can’t find something I’d like to skate, I build a new spot or change one that needs fixing to make it skateable.
Featuring interviews with Cody Lockwood, Aref Bobby Koushesh, and artist French. DIY Skate spot check outs on Salamander Ranch (USA), Bob’s Spot (England), Wörgl DIY (Austria), and Down by the River (France). And way way more…
DIY spot in France (Thouars in Deux-Sevres). This is the 872 DIY bowl project, just near a bridge which was built by Gustave Eiffel company in 1872.