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Free Wheelie

I couldn’t find anything on the Interwebs about what I thought was the product name. And then I realized “Free Wheelie” was a pun on the killer whale motif. Pretty slow on the uptake, huh Kil,wag? Straight from eBay Poland. Turns out these things are called Rat Tailz. A company named Sport Fun made skateboards […]

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Hütteldorf skatepark

Ryan Hass sent in a couple pics of the Hütteldorf skatepark, mostly just to point out the seven stair set that the designers thoughtfully left in the bowl should you decide to slam. There’s also an eight feet deep channel on the opposite end. Where do these things come from? I mean, besides Germany Austria, […]

Skate Sealand

Skate Sealand

For those of you not familiar, the Principality Sealand is micronation off the coast of the U.K.. It’s basically an old antiaircraft gun platform anchored in international waters and later abandoned after the end WWII. Since 1967 it’s been occupied by an eccentric man and his family, who declared it a sovereign nation. So far […]

Build a skatepark in Romania

Romania needs skateparks, tomorrow.

I get a lot of emails running this site, mostly guys in Taiwan and China wanting to sell me skateboards, bearings, trucks or wind sails, people wanting me to tell them if how much their skateboard is worth, occasionally somebody wants skateboard vacation advice… Here’s the most lax and yet demanding RFP I’ve ever seen: […]

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Don’t forget to skate

Yes, good advice indeed, found on the insides of these new Vans designed by a Dutch designer going by Parra. Now if someone could just write that on the tag of all those Indy t-shirts. There’s an interview with Parra and some pictures of his work over on Fecal Face. [Source: Leased Ferrari Photo right: […]

Italian bastards

Lucky bastards

Some architects help turn an old theater into a flagship store for an Italian clothing brand called Bastard. Those bastards have a skate team and and a ridiculously cool bowl suspended above the main interior of the store. I’ve never heard of these Italian bastards, but they must have a lot of money, and they […]

Sanke run skatepark in Het Hulsbeek, Oldenzaal, Netherlands

Oldenzaal Snake Run

There’s an old 70’s snakerun park in the Het Hulsbeek recreation park located in Oldenzaal, Netherlands. For the past handful of years they’ve been holding an annual contest series there called “Oerend Hard” that looks like it’s more of a weekend festival of skateboarding and fun than a strict contest. Events typically include a standard […]

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Austrian Tag Team Doubles

I was at a benefit party/session for a private bowl this weekend and there were a couple of guys doing some doubles action, which is always a crowd pleaser. This morning I got a link to an event called the Austrian Tag Team Battle, which is packed full of doubles action ranging from the circus-type […]

SOTW 03-23-09: Hagen Pool, Germany

SOTW 3-23-09: Hagen Pool, Germany

This week’s Shot of the Week is from Peter Diepes over at OMSA. It’s a shot of Txus Dominguez with a one footed carve at the Hagen bowl in Germany, and yes, it’s a make. You can catch it on video over at EuropeSkate. Txus Dominguez has been accused of trying to turn Spain into […]