Vert skating is still going very strong in Scandinavia and this past weekend another episode of the Quiksilver Vert Invitational was held at the Stockholm Skatepark with a solid backing of good skaters. Hope to get up there next year as the whole concept just looks like a lot of fun and less competition! Special thanks [...]

Quiksilver is teaming up again with Stockholm’s indoor skatepark this coming Saturday, November 15th 2008 for a vert invitational contest on the beautiful looking halfpipe. Here’s all the info straight from the vert.nu website (cheers Dave!): Entry charge 50 skr (about 5€) (all times are approximate) 12:00: skate park opens 13:00 - 14:30: Check your self in for the [...]

This fantastic piece of news landed in my mailbox yesterday from Ants Neo, one of the main figures behind the concept of the Highvalley Skatepark in Stockholm, Sweden - click here to read the Europeskate interview I did with him back in February 2008. For years he has been fighting with many other skaters to [...]

Sweden is always a good place to go to have a load of fun and skate some good parks. The Stockholm Skatepark will be hosting the Quiksilver Mini Rampage September 6th, 2008. The action starts at one in the afternoon, costs 50 Kroner to enter and I believe “only” 40 skaters can start. - Check the [...]

Semester Skateboards out of Sweden has put out a really good video going by the name ‘Tur i retur’ - sorry, no idea what that means - Skate and Annoy say an online translator spat out ‘Luck in return’ for the term…so be it. Sit back and enjoy, Sweden rips!

Sweden is really getting a lot of coverage lately and right on time I found out about the annual Pirate Cup which is starting today with it’s first stop way up north in a town called Örnsköldsvik. Just to get your geography knowledge up to notch, have a look where this place is: View Larger Map It’s [...]

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, [...]

Now how do you round up an entire weekend in one sentence? Let me try it out. Ummm, it was awesome! Yeah, that works. That’s when you can really use the cliche American word ‘awesome’. The Quiksilver Bowlrider 2008 final in Malmö, Sweden brought all of the good factors together and made it work. I’ll [...]