A night before the tour I had a dream: Christian Hosoi was sitting on my balcony and eating bananas with peanut butter. I bought that peanut butter for that upcoming tour. I awoke in shock. I was scared. I checked and the huge jar of peanut butter was still waiting for me. What a relief!
Living from day to daze – Mateusz Kałużny “Kaszkiet” – skate part
Yo! Once again, the annual Rozkurwiel Tour happened. This time it was number 13. Lucky 13? We will find out soon!
Jordan Thackeray. Frontside bluntslide over the door at The Spot. Tottenham, England. Photo: Wig Worland … Keep reading
For a short introduction, Rozkurwiel is a crew from north of Poland. Ok, that’s enough for an introduction. So for the annual Rozkuwiel Tour, in 2018 we decided to check the ocean. As always we rent a bus, get together nine freaks and hit the road.
It was January 2014, together with my friend after a few beers we decided to build a concrete pool in the heart of Warsaw under the bridge where I was previously involved with POWISLE DIY project. We were pissed off because of many things like the fact diy culture is still not that big in Poland, all the bowls at the parks are really bad and mellow and don’t even have good coping
POWIŚLE DIY is located in an old building abandoned for twenty years near the center of Warsaw. Construction was started by three people and then quickly more people joined to work and to raise more money for the materials. The spot is totally illegal but we have tacit approval from the city and the police so we can expand the spot and enjoy the ride!
Confusion Magazine’s “$UCK-¢E$$ or BU$T” skateboard deck with artwork by Fernando Elvira.
Decks shaped and screen printed by LOCALS SKATEBOARDS from Poland.
Last year came out new polish skateboard movie Grey Area. Everybody was super hyped. Dirty spots, DIY concrete and creativity on board. We interviewed Kuba Kaczmarczyk, the guy behind the whole thing, to ask some haunting questions.
“Every trip has it’s ups and downs. Whether it be not finding places to stay, long drives, weather, etc… After Sweden and Denmark we were sure that we were on an “up”. We get picked up in Malmö after having to get ahold of Brad through his girlfriend’s instagram. The drive was easy with a spacious van and we even ended up taking a ferry somewhere in there as well. My goal was to only speak German for as long we were in Germany. So I was less than talkative for the first four or so hours driving. I ended up breaking language when we ran into some of our friends from the States at a completely random rest stop off the German highway. A few English words with the homies and we’re off to Munster to skate for a couple of days….” – Steven Reeves
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.
