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Eu não entendo

Skateboard documentaries are a dime a dozen these days. We’ve seen Dogtown, New York, the UK, Rocco, Duane Peters, pool skating, and many others. What’s missing? Brazil, I guess. Near as I can tell, there’s a pretty slick looking film coming out that documents the scene in Brasil form the 70’s through today. I have […]

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Lets get daffy

Bugs bunny used always call everyone a “maroon” in those old Looney Tunes cartoons. It might be an intentional mispronunciation of moron, and less likely to be the other definition, a loud signaling firework, or the descendants of escaped slaves living in a certain part of the West Indies. So, speaking of Bugs, what about […]

Panama Skate scene

Greetings from Panama

Insert Van Halen reference here. Skater: Mirlo Trick: Rock to fakie on a street barrier Where: Panama, Central America. Photo: Jerzick Oliveros Thanks to Milorad Vardic for sending it in. You can see the full frame shot plus a bonus street sequence after the jump.

Los Super Juniors in Mexico

I found this Mexican comic book, Los Super Juniors over at Weirdo Toys. And speaking of Mexican skateboarding, check out this video from Steven Bailey found at the Mercava Skateboards. It’s got spots from different states in Mexico, including the one where tipster John Aguilar learned to skate tranny when he was a Super Junior. […]

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Friday T&A on S&A: The Burnquist Samba

From the sketchy translation I got, this was at some mega ramp event that ended a week long celebration the history of skateboarding in Brazil, or not. For our purposes, it’s Bob Burnquist and Jake Brown (back turned) dancing with some socially and culturally acceptable scantily clad Carnaval-type gals on the mega ramp in Brazil, […]

Guantanamo Bay with Mimi Knoop

Mimi goes to Gitmo

Somehow or other we reported on a prefab concrete and metal skatepark being built at Guantanamo Bay by Spohn Ranch, and nobody made any torture jokes. For some reason, Mimi Knoop (with Zach Miller, Adam Taylor and Cara-Beth Burnside) recently travelled there to session the old park remnants as well as some of the new […]

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SkateCultura of Brasil

SKATECULTURA is from Brazil, and it documents vintage skateboarding through multiple decades, from a Brazilian perspective. There’s also a little of the current scene sprinkled in there, with an emphasis on Brasil’s most famous skateboarding export, Bob Burnquist. It looks like there was a slew Brazilian skate magazines at one time, some of them looked […]

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Epicly skateable architecture

We’ve covered marginally skateable architecture, so now we travel to Punta del Este, Uruguay for this apartment complex surrounded by waves of bricked banks. This corner is a JAWBREAKER, since the first time I passed by this corner during the 80’s I felt in love with the arquitecture. Good that It was free to ride […]

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SOTW 3-2-09: São Paulo, Brazil

This week’s Shot of the Week comes from Brazil via reader Nathaa Nobile. It’s a Rodrigo Vianna photo of “Sujo” at a spot in Praça Roosevelt (or Roosevelt Garden) in São Paulo, Brazil. You can check out the Flickr streams from Wheels on fire and Daigo Oliva for more action from this crew. I chose this one […]