Archive for the ‘Skate Park Infos’

Skate Rock 2008 at the Cosa Nostra Skatepark

So much to do this coming weekend all around Europe. If you just want to have a chilled out evening and happen to be in Chelles, France then head on over to the Cosa Nostra Skatepark for the Skate Rock 2008 event with free concerts, free skateboarding and free drinks! Barbecue fun is included in the [...]

Two more reasons for a skate trip to Sweden!

Halfpipe corner at the Area 51 skatepark in Göteborg I got back just last Sunday from Malmö, Sweden which has the incredible Stapelbäddsparken concrete park and another park which is being built right now which was looking like a whole look of fun. While I was at the contest, I hooked up with Magnus Olsevik, [...]

Great Burnside skatepark documentary film

The world famous DIY skatepark Burnside in Portand, Oregon has been around for 18 years now and it is still a park many try to skate when they make it over to the west coast of the States. A very insightful video documenting the skatepark with the originators Kent Dahlgren and Sage Bolyard, local businesswoman [...]

Flensburg - Germany concrete park opening pics

Yeah yeah, I’ve heard it already a thousand times from the skaters here in Hamburg. “Hey man, where were you last weekend? The Flensburg park opening session was going off and it WASN’T raining!” Well, it sure was in Hamburg and that’s only 1.5 hours away from Flensburg in an area when it rains, then [...]

Skate park to be built in downtown Baghdad?

I almost thought I was reading another bad taste joke when I came across the post about an American businessman who is planning to build an amusement park with an integrated skate park in downtown Baghdad. Whhhhhhaaat?!!! This is definitely one of the strangest business plans I have heard about in a long time and [...]

Hamburg’s Flora concrete bowl support party April 4th

With skateboarding getting bigger and bigger and more and more mainstream companies trying to make a buck out of the hype it is good to see skaters coming together to build up their very own skate spots by raising some money, chipping in and doing all of the work themselves. Several of these DIY spots [...]

Guy Mariano is the new Battle Commander at The Berrics

Funny how an indoor skatepark called The Berrics can attract so much attention in the skateboarding world but obviously with this group of outstanding skateboarders starting it up and bringing their skate haven to the world via word, internet, photography and videos we can all participate and enjoy watching how this new part of skateboard [...]

Skatepark in Paris, France growing rapidly

Paris is going to be an even happier town for skateboarders in 2008 when the work on the brand spanking new skatepark finishes. As usual with my not so amazing French I have tried to pick out the possible date that this very very large park will be open to the public - supposedly sometime [...]

Concrete bowl landscape being built in Flensburg, Germany

Great way for me to start the day of…around an hour away from Hamburg, Germany is a town on the northern coast of Germany by the name of Flensburg. Earlier this year the skatepark construction company bowl.ch received the go to build a concrete skatepark and it is well underway! Dive in to take a [...]

Hooked needs your input for a new skatepark in Derby, England!

Hooked is an extreme sports committee based in Derby, England which was originally set up with the aim of providing a service to young people with an interest in alternative sports. They are working on providing possibilities for extreme sports activities in city areas and advertising to the general public about the new provision for [...]