kevin wenzke

The Kevin Wenzke Interview

Kevin Wenzke is one of the best all around transition rippers in Germany. At 22 years old, destroying any new bowl or ramp built on European soil, as well as the older concrete relics from the past, Kevin has a bright future in skateboarding. We were close to interviewing Kevin for issue #3 of Confusion Magazine but he had a bad knee injury which took him out for about eight months last May, so we couldn’t complete the feature. Here we have a short interview with some photos taken right before his injury, and a few older photos and sequences. Be on the look out for a full feature with Kevin in 2012 with all new photos as he completes his recovery and returns to slay the concrete bowls across the lands!

BERGFEST: Battle of the Monster Bowl – July, 2011 – Münster, Germany

The concrete bowl at Berg Fidel in Münster, Germany was built in 1989 and marks the early development of concrete bowl skateboarding in Europe. It was the same year Titus held the world championships in Germany, and pros from America like John Cardiel, Matt Hensley, Chris Miller, Christian Hossoi and Danny Way all have skated the Monster Bowl in it’s early beginnings. 22 years later…

BERGFEST – MONSTER BOWL – July 16th, Münster, Germany

THIS SATURDAY, July 16th in Münster, Germany: BERGFEST – Battle of the Monster Bowl with tons of ripping skaters from all over europe & usa: John Magnusson, Anders Tellen, Jason Parkes, Ben Schroeder, Tim Bijsterveld, Emmanuel Guzman, Max Shrädder, Matt Grabowski,. Not to be missed… get in the car and drive.. (unless you live in USA and Australia or Japan, etc., then you’ll just have to watch the footage coming soon… not next year). And this just in, Pär Mag and Balder Lehmann and some other scandavian dudes will be on deck drinking beers or in the bowl fucking shit up! I guess this post is pointless, because if you don’t know, you’re not going, and if you do, you’re already gonna be there. So click the links and see what you’re missing out on, and wait for the gnar footage coming soon………..