I met Fuchsi while I was in Helsinki, Finland. He is a really mellow, artsy guy and one hell of a street styler and I had a blast filming with him.
Few days ago Bamboo Motion Pictures introduced his full part in their latest filck called Good Times Rollin’, which is defenetly worth taking a look. Click below and enjoy the ripping…
My explorations of the surf route from France to Portugal had come to an end last week.
Katja and me made 11000+ km, seen, surfed, skated and experienced so many things I could write a book. It truly was the trip of my life, with ups and downs and everything in between. It is good to go abroad for such a long time, so you re-learn where your real home is and who your true friends are.
On the way back we just had to do another stop: Algorta, Cantabria.
Every transition lover and true skater has seen this wonder of a skatepark in skate movies, so we could not just drive by not to get a little feel of it. The park is super good for surf style shredding, but I mainly wanted to ride the blue pool (now its actually black).
It looked kind of abandoned, full of trash and the locals riding everything else but this… and you learn quickly why. I can say without any shame I was scared after a long time, while it is so steep you think you are free falling into a pit of doom! Nonetheless I think my friends Uroš and Šmid would love it, but you really have to give a pile of respect to all the pros who ride it properly!
My friends at Love Distribution have finished their third movie and it simply bangin`!
I have been honoured to film some stuff with them and hoping to do more in the coming seasons as well… Check all the crazy snowboard action from Seppi Scholler, Marc Swoboda, Dominik Wagner, Matevž Pristavec and others (plus some bmx, skate and stunt riding skills for the icing). Movie below and also available for download on their webpage…
Peniche, Portugal, is a small town with a small skatepark.
It has all sorts of fun obstacles, miniramp, corner pumps, minispine and more, but the grounds are cracked everywhere and the ramp is bad shape. It would only take a bag of cement and some labour, but I guess kids there rather surf real waves than do D.I.Y. stuff…
Ericeira, Portugal, is better known for its reef breaks and surfing, but they recently got one hell of a skatepark buildt.
It is mostly trannies and some street stuff, yet the real deal is the bowl with shallow and deep end. Thanks to Zaragoza guys for the good tip!
Big swell hit Portugal today and we were all on our toes if the famous Supertubos would be riddable, because we wanted to see, film and maybe even ride one of the fastest beachbreaks in Europe. It was closing out heavily, so we headed on to Conselacao reef, which was looking pretty big from afar.
Conselacao lefts were four meters plus, light offshore and no one out. Jernej Rakušček and Kostja Polc were the first one to give it a try, while the rest of us agreed it is no shame in walking away on a day like this, haha.
Jernej really scored, taking five waves and even pulled into a barrel and Kostja got a bomb that knocked him of the board.
Andraž Rakušček and Iztok Južnič Žonta manned up for a second session, which was also heavy as hell. Andraž got his leash ripped and got a swim of his life to the beach and Izi took a big cleaner set on the head while paddling out… they both got a taste of the waves as well and Andraž and Jernej even went for another session while the sun was setting down…
We have spent a portion of our vacation in France first, next in Basque and then moved to Cantabria in Spain. We did some exploring on the coast, skateboarding, surfing, sightseeing, went to Picos de Europa and just filmed when felt necessary. Allthough you are on well deserved time off, one can not resist taking a camera out wherever he is, especially if it is all new and fresh.
Few days ago we joined our friends on the Ujusansa Surfari Portugal to Peniche. We are staying in a really nice house in Baleal with a wiev directly to the Lagide reef. It just does not get better than this for the last part of the holidays and you really get creative again, while it is picturesque, warm and the waves pumping!
The waves took a little time off in Cantabria, Spain, so the best way to get some surf like riding was to go check the Somo skatepark.
The park is brand new, has a sick bowl with an extension, a oververted wave wall and few smaller trannies. I had a mellow session with the guys from Zaragoza, who also gave me good advice where to go in our next stop in Portugal…
I always check for good skateparks around where we travel and this one in Noja, Cantabria, looked really worth checking out.
It is a combination of a snake run, miniramp and a pool end, all in one bowl! Sadly it is not well maintained. You can just ride the ramp part or pump around, which is not how you would go at it, if the top layer would not be in such bad shape. I was really bummed, but the crazy graffiti were something cool to see…
Our german friends wanted to do a little surf tripping as the swell forecast was kind of huge. They went further west, to Asturias, where they had some good reef spots in mind, and Katja and I were happy to join.
On the second day of our travels we passed by this cool looking street spot in the town of Aviles, Asturias. Despite the rough grounds, it was pretty sick just pumping down the streets and doing little carves as it felt like surfing the concrete…