Trukentroef V – Vorselaar, Belgium

Since the last edition a few new obstacles were built by Ratman’s crew and the locals: a new corner with a love seat including custom made pool coping and a nice bank with a little slappy on top.

Overview of the M & M bowl with Tobi Hees frontside slash grinding from the deepend into the shallow.

Winter Weekend in the Netherlands – Amsterdam & Eindhoven

With the 8th issue of Confusion Magazine finally at the printers, it was time to take a little break from the computer, and get out of the city, or country, for a little winter time skate or surf road trip.

Jürgen Horrwarth. Nosegrind over the hip into the shallow-end. Photo: Hay

Best of Both – Düsseldorf, Germany – 2013

The Best of Both is a wooden bowl contest that takes place every year for the last four or five years. The first day the skating is in the downstairs Factory Bowl, and the second day upstairs in the OMSA Pool which is a wooden replica of a real backyard pool.

Kidney Bowl – Mers Les Bains, France

Belgium based company Concrete Flow under the head surveillance of legendary Michel ‘Mike’ van der Ouderaa has just finished a nice kidney pool on the French atlantic coast 300 meters from the beach in a little seaside town called Mers les Bains.