Beginning of the year, new energy, new time to spend looking for new discoveries. Once again, I travel to this peacful place, and just as the before I found more than I expected – and with the skate spots – more than I had ever imagined. This trip turned into a crazy kind of stokin’ “search and find” new DIY and new skateable landscapes inside this atlantic paradise.
While millions were watching a pig skin being tossed back and forthfor Super Bowl Sunday, some local So Cal rippers were skating a heavy session at Would Shop DIY / Butler’s Pool.
The Grim Creepers put on a great skate Jam at Northcote Skate Park in Melbourne just before Christmas, so I went down with a few mates to check it out.
Ever since I saw Pontus Alv’s “Strongest of the Strange” I wanted to build some skate stuff myself. The film blew my mind // great skating, artwork and DIY, but especially the short moaning scene. It sounded all so familiar to me: no time, no spots to skate, no motivation.
AGARASA BASE is a skatepark I made in Nagahama, in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan. I spent about three years building the park in my backyard.
I started going to meetings and pitching the idea for a skate park in my home town of Valley Center, California about five years ago. At that time they, parks and rec., said there was no money for something like that so I didn’t pursue it for another year, until I saw a sign for and new sports field to be built.
A few weeks ago I visited my friend Matt from Minus Ramps and Pools. I hadn’t seen him for more then two and a half years. Reason enough to go for that ten hour drive from my place to Matt’s home. Another good reason was that Soup, the mastermind behind General Sherman’s Radius Floats, was visiting Matt. I had planned to stay just for the weekend, but I soon realized that this was not enough time.
Skateboarding at Bowlarama, Getxo (Basque country) with Chris Russell, Pedro Barros, Giorgio Zattoni, Maunel Alvarez, Pedro “Pope” Tomas, Jaime Mateu, Diego Cuevas, Josep Cevera, Tomas Varela, Moski, Ivan Rivado, Enriques Giles and more…
