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Ryan Carpenter. Front smith in the Bird Bath.

The (almost) Complete Guide to Nor Cal’s DIY Spots (part 1)

“I could say I remember it like it was yesterday but that would be a lie – in fact it seems like a lifetime ago. No smartphones, no email, weed was illegal no matter what your doctor cared to write, and the strippers had zits on their asses in Portland. Looking back it seems like 1995 was a completely different world than what exists today. I mean shit was real seedy back then and modern day terms like gentrify just weren’t in the average American’s vernacular. But even without the aid of booking flights and hotels online and the fantasy of transporting legal weed we somehow still made it to Burnside that summer because we fucking had to. “Build it and they will come” may be a corny ass line from a Kevin Costner movie but in the case of the granddaddy of DIY, it’s pretty much the way it was…” – Bruce Rodela

Basque Ramps Five

Basque Ramps: fifth edition Skaters: Txus Dominguez, Kevin campbell, Aitor Perez, Pedro Vivas, Ibon Achutegui, … Keep reading

Penthouse bowl – Switzerland

Everything started with this ramp at my parents house we skated maybe three years before I moved into my own house. I rebuilt the the ramp to use the corners again and made something that really looks like a pool.

Oscar Mad. Floripa skatepark

Backyard bowls in Florianópolis – Brazil

“Florianopolis is like no other place in the world. Everywhere you look there are backyards pools built for skating, backyard mini ramps and skate stuff everywhere. Just walking down the street you hear skating in backyards on every block.” – Neal Hendrix

Confusion Magazine – issue #12 – out now

DIY Skate spot check outs:
NOR CAL DIY Spot Guide (Canada), Mister Wilson DIY (Germany)
Alm DIY (Austria), Spoff DIY (Austria), RCS DIY (Sweden), Cherry Bowl (Switzerland). Skate features / interviews include: Chris Russell, Diego Doural, Zach Cusano, Henri von Stanislawski, The Grim Creepers, Mark Munson,
Bart Saric, Tadej Vaukman and of course way more…

Infernal Ramp “Grind to Grind” – 2015 – Cadiz, Spain

Comenzamos el evento presentando el nuevo DIY Grind To Grind Molten Trucks Pool Coping. Siguiendo nuestra obsesión por los ejes y nuestro culto a ellos, el nuevo Grind to Grind consistía en la fundición de ejes de skate y transformarlos en una loseta de piscina.

Pool Session 2015 – La Kantera, Basque country

This year the level in the juniors was high, all were ripping hard. In the pool sesion many people from Barcelona came and were ripping the pool. A cool session with locals too. Good moments. Skate for fun.