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 [...]

Okay, it is already a week old but it slipped through my radar - doesn’t make it worse though. This looks really good, raw, intense. I saw the Bacon team in Sweden this summer and they do rip. And they all know how to party - somehow I didn’t get on with Benji Galloway though [...]

The Röksska Museum in Göteborg(Gothenburg), Sweden has an ongoing exhibition about skateboarding which lasts until November 2nd, 2008. Axel Torschmied from skateanddestroy.de sent me the info a while back but as it is still there for a couple more weeks, here it is for you. Here’s what the museum curators have to say about the exhibition [...]

Sweden is a country in Europe I can definitely start thinking about moving to in order to live. Especially with the amount of great concrete skate parks that are being built in the past couple of years. The next park which is getting the final touches to it is the Actionpark in Gothenburg, Sweden. And [...]

I was in Malmö, Sweden just this past summer and before we headed over to the contest one morning, we were directed to the latest in concrete wonders to go on display in Sweden. This time only a few kilometers away from the Stapelbäddsparken skatepark a quite different skate plaza of sorts has been put [...]

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!