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Skate Agora | Cinema II

Skate Agora | Cinema II

En Skate Agora continúan con la propuesta veraniega Cinema, está semana tendrá lugar la premiere del Texalona 2. Un vídeo de Jordan Standley grabado en Texas y Barcelona protagonizado por Florentin Marfaing, Johannes BayerFrankie Rendón y más caras conocidas. El viernes se proyectará Los Goonies, un icono de las películas de aventuras de los años 80 dirigida por Richard Donner y basada en una historia escrita por Steven Spielberg.
No te lo pierdas este jueves! Recuerda que la entrada es gratuita.

CPH Open 2017 | Day 4

CPH Open 2017 | Day 4

CPH Open 2017

19- 23rd JULY

 

The CPH Open finals was a day that will go down in the history books as one of the most packed Copenhagen skateboarding has ever seen. With a big crowd comes a great atmosphere and with the sun out and the party in full Saturday mode, everyone headed to the first stop of the day by the Planetariet where a flat bar and picnic bench got laid out in a line to find the last skaters who would make it into the finals.

Louie Lopez, Matt Berger and Felipe Gustavo all made the grade while others took the opportunity to find the best vantage point by hiring inflatables and watching from the lake.

Ishod Wair → CPH Open 2017 Champ!

Photo by Maksim Kalanep

Moving on just a few meters was a straight up 10 step cash for tricks assault through a sea of people standing and hanging on to whatever they could find. Bangers came in the shape of Aurelien’s Hard Flip, Midler’s front 3 and Jamie Foy’s BS flip.

From the steps the race was on for everyone to get to the finals at the Copenhagen skatepark with entry queues destined to snake right up the road.
‘Side mission on the way’ goes to Jamie Foy, Zion, Paul Hart and Alex Midler on a shocker of a bridge rail – check @copenhagenopen to be impressed.

The newly refurbished park complete with obligatory heart sunglasses was feeling the heat from the off, an incredible line up of skaters that was a treat to watch both live online and in the park.
With such an impressive start list it was always going to be a hard call but the day, if not the week, belonged to Ishod Wair showing why he’s a SOTY by cruising with absolute effortless board control on every surface he touched in Copenhagen. Luan Oliveira and Vincent Milou took the next two spots but the party was fully in Ishod’s honour.

Barrel jump up next and rumours that it’s being considered as an additional Olympic discipline are unfounded, if it was, Blake Johnson would be in with a shout. The Death Race is also not on the cards but it would be a sure fire ratings winner. Top speeds of 29mph and glory for days to anyone with super push and a good barge, Mason Silva had the elbows to take the win

The comp was closed down with the best trick, this year a bump to bar over a smoking mystery pit made even better/challenging by the sheer amount of gold confetti cannons being let off. With crowds that made even going to the bar a challenge, major props to those that skated and especially Jaakko Ojanen who secured top honours.

Anyone still in town should make it down to La Banchina - Refshalevej 14 to chill, swim and finish the rest of the party.

Full list of results here →

Enjoy below an awesome photo Gallery by Maksim Kalanep. Also check Day 1-2 & 3

Photography by Maksim Kalanep

CPH Open 2017 | Day 3

CPH Open 2017 | Day 3

CPH Open 2017

19- 23rd JULY

 

Copenhagen demonstrated in no uncertain terms that a little rain couldn’t dampen the festivities yesterday, as the CPH Open went full steam ahead despite the rain that threw down for most of the day. The washed out scheduled lunchtime ledge action quickly turned into rammed session at the Wonderland bowl in Christiania. Tough to get in proved even harder to get out, as the crowds surged to witness the transition madness of the impromptu sweatbox.

TJ Rogers → Nollie Heelflip FS Noseslide

Photo by Maksim Kalanep

Breakout missions were taking place in other parts of town as the city showed why it’s one of the best places to skate regardless of weather. Secret spots and well known parks such as the X-Hall bowl were getting decent workouts and being destroyed by GT and crew amongst others.

For those looking to use the break in the comp to loosen up a bit the Champagne River Cruise and Party Bus transported skaters and crew under canopy fuelled by seemingly inexhaustible cases off special reserve.

With the rain retreating late afternoon, the Triangle DIY spot looked like a goer and against all odds dried up just in time for a comp, though not before it was turned upside down by Sebo Walker and TJ Rogers who skated it better in the wet than most mortals can do in the dry. For anyone who’s not seen it, the Triangle takes it’s name from it’s shape and has a bunch of curbs, ledges, hips and bumps that can be skated all the way round. Qualified skaters were given 3 x 2 laps to put lines together with top winners making the cut for Saturday finals. Franky Villani go the crowed fired up with smiles and a diverse bag of silky oddness, Vincent Milou was on fire but Luan made the whole thing look like his local spot with a consistency that’s beyond comprehension.

Saturday schedule takes place by the lakes at Planetariet with a picnic table and flat bar set up followed by 10 stair Cash for Tricks 13.00 – 16.00 Top 3 get qualified into the CPH OPEN finals at Copenhagen Skatepark from 17.00

Expect to see the modern day equivalent of gladiators in the Death Race from 8pm followed by Barrel jumps, best trick and even more partying.

Full line up and directions here → 

Enjoy below a cool photo gallery about CPH Open Day 3 by Maksim Kalanep. Also enjoy Day 1 & 2 

Photography by Maksim Kalanep

Helsinki | HELride 2017

Helsinki | HELride 2017

A four day contest at Helsinki streets with many cool and wild action like the "Death Race", check it out and enjoy!

Via TWS →

CPH OPEN 2017 | Day 1 & 2

CPH OPEN 2017 | Day 1 & 2

CPH Open 2017

19- 23rd JULY 

 

Corks are popping for the champagne of skateboarding, otherwise known as the CPH Open, the skate event that couldn’t possibly happen anywhere else in the world without getting shut down within minutes.

Yuri Facchini → Shifty Flip

Photo by Maksim Kalanep

5 days of skateboarding from some of the best in the game kicked off with the biggest crowd ever seen mobbing the Faelledparken.
Over vert sections and backside face slaps seen by the world via instagram was even more insane in the cold light of real life as Rune, Raven and Grant Taylor defied logic and the laws of physics to open the skate festival with lines that laughed in the face of sensibility.

Thursday took it 80s old school at Lithauens Plads with plexi glass quarters, kickers and OG boardslide rails before a slappy and wallride attack in the meat packing district in front of another huge and up for it crowd.

The CPH Open, now celebrating it’s 10th year, cruises the streets of the Danish capital hitting up skate friendly architecture and purpose built features in a celebration of getting loose and being off the hook. With the largest line up of pros and top draw AMs from across the globe, the super chilled and highly carbonated event runs through to Sunday with a full schedule every day to stoke out the city takeover.

The top 3 qualifiers from each event bags a ticket to the finals at the Copenhagen Skatepark on Saturday, but the true glory lies in the insane spots and the getting there in this incredible city.

The session takes off again at 18.00 at the DIY Triangle. Full line up and directions here →

Enjoy below an awesome photo gallery recap from day 1 and 2 by Maksim Kalanep

 

Day 1


Day 2

Photography by Maksim Kalanep

Skate Agora | Cinema

Skate Agora | Cinema

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Con la llegada de las noches de verano llega también Skate Agora Cinema!
Desde este jueves 20 de Julio podrás disfrutar de cine al aire libre todos los jueves y viernes a partir de las 20.00hrs en Skate Agora.
Y que mejor que inaugurar las sesiones de cine con el video que lo empezó todo…
Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Rodney Mullen, Stacy Peralta y Mike McGill protagonizan el Bones Brigade Video Show, considerado por muchos como el primer video de skate de la historia.
El viernes seguiremos con otro clásico, Regreso al Futuro de Robert Zemeckis protagonizada por Michael J.Fox y Christopher Lloyd.
Y como quieren contar con tu opinión para programaciones futuras, no dudes en escribir a hola@skateagora.com con tu sugerencia de video/peli favorita que te gustaría ver en Skate Agora Cinema!

Lisboa Stone Crushers 2017

Lisboa Stone Crushers 2017

On July 27th, 28th, and 29th you need to save a spot at Parque Eduardo VII’s grass, at Martim Moniz Square, and at Marquês de Pombal, downtown in the heart of Lisbon, to the first anual street and vert contest in Portugal, thrown at some of the most important historical city spots will take place Lisboa Stone Crushers 2017 

(To some of these spots you might want to bring out your bikini!) 

It doesn’t end here! You can take some time to see some skate prémières at the oldest cinema teather in Lisbon and enjoy some skateboarding art along with some drinks

 Stay tuned for more infos! 

Element Skatecamp | Week 1, Spain

Element Skatecamp | Week 1, Spain

Enjoy this nice edit about the first week of Element Skate Camp in Spain, the coolest and more professional camp with many activities around. Lots of fun, these guys rule!

Filmed & Edited by Eduardo García

Nike SB | Berlin Open

Nike SB | Berlin Open

NIKE SB BERLIN OPEN – 30th June – 2nd July SEMIS & FINALS

 

1st Matias Dell Olio → Photo Maksim Kalanep

Competitors stepped up their game Sunday for the Semis and Finals of the Nike SB Berlin Open at the Shelter skatepark.

Another packed house saw the 30 qualified skaters from Saturday’s heats all take to the park in order to bring the rider count down to the 12 who would skate finals.

2nd Hyun Kummer → Photo by Maksim Kalanep

Consistency was notched up in the Semis as the €20,000 prize purse came into reach and saw Giorgi Balhhamishvili have one of his best ever comp runs, surprising himself into the last 12 and twisting up decent hurricane on the kink rail in the process. Equally as surprised was Hyun Kummer who was just under a minute late to his heat yet casually put down an ally Oop BS flip over the A frame and kickflips to both back and frontside 5-0 down the hubba, strolling into finals.

Such was the level from all riders that final’s jams were switched up to 2 man, 3 minute visits, giving judges brain time and skaters an unimpeded run of the park. This proved perfect for Vincent Milou whose lines took him all over, and out of, the park, popping out of the top of the China Bank to Back Smith on a brick sized ledge and into 3rd place. Kummer utilizing the full allocated time for his final run, made the most of it, cruising the park with a super laidback style and bizarre no footed airwalk ollies, casually dropping a varial flip the hard way over the rail – 2nd. Winning rights are handed firmly to Matias Dell Olio who came out of the blocks fully loaded and ready to fire - switch flip back tail on the hubba, Hard flip back lip, feeble grind the whole of the kinked rail, big flip front board on the A-Frame rail and some of the best air punches of the day.

1st Matias Dell Olio - 2nd Hyun Kummer - 3rd Vincent Milou - 4th Herman Moller 5th Fernando Bramsmark - 6th Jon Consentino - 7th Justin Sommer - 8th Egor Kaldikov - 9th Yannick Schall - 10th Neverton Casella

See the full list of results here

While the judges were verifying the results someone lit the blue touch paper of the firework show that is Best Trick won with a mind melting Nollie heel flip front feeble down the rail by Jon Cosentino 


Lakai | The Flare Video Premiere

Lakai | The Flare Video Premiere

Lakai's highly anticipated video The Flare will be premiere in July 7th around Spain. A total of 24 skate shops will carry out their respective premieres for all skaters who might want to watch the latest production by Crailtap,

Find below on the image a list of selected stores and the official trailer, stay tuned!


Carhartt WIP | O3EPO Trailer

Carhartt WIP | O3EPO Trailer

Carhartt WIP is proud to present O3EPO, a project that takes you from the towering skyscrapers of Moscow to the idyllic Lake Baikal in southern Siberia

Over a three week period in 2016, the crew – which consisted of skaters from both Carhartt WIP and Russian brand Absurd Skateboardsjourneyed over 6000 km, exploring the vibrant cities, vast countryside and burgeoning skate scenes of the world’s largest country. 

O3EPO, which translates to ‘lake’ in Russian, features Carhartt WIP skaters Igor Fardin, Felipe Bartolomé and Joseph Biais, alongside Absurd’s Tolia Titaev and Gosha Konyshev.

Packed into two small cars, the assembled team made it through five time zones, one hundred different skate spots and multiple bottles of local vodka. The gruelling journey was captured by videographer Anton Beliaev and photographer Alexey Lapin, with the assistance of Kirill Korobkov.

O3EPO BERLIN EXHIBITION
4 - 6/07/2017
10am - 6pm

O3EPO SCREENING EVENT
4/07/2017
From 7pm
Movie plays at 8:30 / 9 / 9:30pm

Free entrance, magazines & drinks

Stay tuned for the video online release in October 2017!

Directed, filmer & edited by Anton Beliaev

Go Skateboarding Day | Recap

Go Skateboarding Day | Recap

The last Wednesday 21st of June Be Skateboarding Mag supported by Nike SB held an event in Macba and Parallel to celebrate the ´Go Skateboarding Day´. It took place a Best Trick contest up to 350€ prize money each at Macba big 3, Parallel Manual Pads and Longest Ollie to end up with energy, fun and a slice of pizza. Many skaters from different nationalities gathered together to destroy every spot, amazing skating and sick tricks all over the place. Take a look to the awesome video recap to check what went down and enjoy below a cool photo gallery by Roger Ferrero

Many thanks to everyone who came to join us to celebrate the Go Skateboarding Day, you´re all winners!

Macba Big 3 → Nollie Double Flip & SW Double Flip → Lennon Frassetti

Parallel Manual Pad → 360 Flip Nose Manual Nollie Inward Heelflip → Jorge Simoes

Longest OllieJorge Calderón, Bruno Silva, Pol Catena, Shaun Hover

 

Filmed by Enrique Mayor & Nico Cook

Edited by Enrique Mayor

Supported by Nike SB


Photography by Roger Ferrero

Go Skateboarding Day | Best Trick

Go Skateboarding Day | Best Trick

Get ready for "Go Skateboarding Day" on Wednesday June 21st! Best Trick at Macba Big 3, Parallel and Longest Ollie up to 350€ prize money each. Come and join us to celebrate Go Skateboarding Day, get a T-Shirt and pizza at the end of the day

Supported by Nike SB →

Nike SB | Berlin Open

Nike SB | Berlin Open

NIKE SB BERLIN OPEN – 30th June – 2nd July

 

Anakin Senn → Backside Smith Grind

Photo by Marcel Veldman

Nike SB bring the heat to the heart of Europe for the Berlin Open at the Nike SB Shelter, Skatehalle 30th June – 2nd July.

As part of the Nike SB European series that elevates skateboarding across Europe’s most exciting cities throughout the summer, the Berlin Open welcomes skate pros from across the globe, top AMs looking to take their next step and unknowns ready to launch themselves onto an unsuspecting international stage.

Housed in the jewel of East Berlin, the all-concrete, undercover, Nike SB Shelter guarantees great competition intensity inside, and the joys of the beer garden outside where spectators can see all the action on the huge live screen.

From 50 riders in pre-qualifiers, 10 will progress to challenge 70 invited riders in the qualification heats, all competing for a total prize purse of €20,000. Throw into the mix a ‘Welcome to Berlin Session’ at Project DSS on the Friday to fire things off, one of the best amped up crowds on the comp circuit, and the ballistics of the Best Trick to close the Sunday and you have yourselves a recipe for top a draw summer skate weekend.

Info for spectators & registration for skaters here

Nike SB Shelter - Realer Str. 10245 Berlin
DSS - Warschauer Straße

BE Skateboarding Mag | Issue #2

BE Skateboarding Mag | Issue #2

Come by tomorrow Friday 15th of June to FTC Barcelona to check the second issue of BE Skateboarding Mag, have a beer and enjoy some fresh music by Mucho Muchacho

C/ Notariat 5 Bajos

 Barcelona

Nike SB | Push & Kiss

Nike SB | Push & Kiss

Nike SB Push & Kiss event in Paris cruising along the Seine river and held 6 Best Trick contests at local French spots. Check the cool recap video!

Via Ride Channel →

Hawkers x Macbalife | Cash for Tricks

Hawkers x Macbalife | Cash for Tricks


Nice recap edit about the event "Cash for Tricks" that took place at the iconic Macba plaza by Hawkers Co. and Macbalife up to 5,000€ prize money at the Big Three, check it out!

Barcelona European Open | BEO

Barcelona European Open | BEO


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BEO  (Barcelona European Open) officially launched their website with all the info about this awesome contest that will be held in Barcelona from June 15th to 18th.

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Take a look to the dope skatepark specially built by California Ramps for this contest.

 

Also some of your favorites skaters has already confirmed like Tyler Surrey, Vinicius Santos, Cristian Vanella, Aurelien Giraud, Neverton Casella or Cristian Sánchez. No invitation needed to enter the contest so what are you waiting to sing up

 

The contest consist in three different categories: Open, Women and under 16 with many cool activities around the event, from a spot battle contest to a Bowl party at Nervermind Bar. Take a deeper look at the provisional schedule of BEO and find out more

 

Make sure to save the dates June 15th to 18th to enjoy this cool Barcelona European Open event that it will take place at Forum, Barcelona.

Check out the teaser below featuring Pol Catena!


Nike SB | Barcelona AM Finals

Nike SB | Barcelona AM Finals


Jonas Carlsson → BS Smith Grind

Photo by Maksim Kalanep

A sunny weekend in Barcelona is a tough act to beat, drop in 15 top AMs, a kicking sound system and a concrete skatepark next to the beach and you would be hard pushed to top the finals of the Nike SB Barcelona AM at Skate Agora, Saturday.

The finals format was simple – 5 x 3 man, 3 minute, jam format heats. With only one visit to the park for the skaters there were no opportunities to play around for anyone who was hoping to end the day with a pocket full of prize money.

Mathias Torres from Chile passes by Barcelona every few months and has clearly got feel for local lines, showing smooth flow and smashing an inward heel down the stairs, but the standard was high at the Badalona park. Gustavo Ribeiro, a second place finalist from last year had his eye on taking a step up the podium by bringing home a bigspin fs blunt to fakie down the rail but couldn’t hold the rest of his run together enough to retake a top spot.

1st Tim Debuche  2nd Jorge Simoes  3rd Justin Sommer

Justin Sommer’s skating over the last couple of days showed he was going to make a point and demonstrated the fact by bringing a hard flip front board on the rail to the party and closing down 3rd spot. Last year’s winner Jorge Simoes was back in the final mix, on form and looking good for the double, snapping into a frontside ollie to switch krook on the volcano and taking a bigspin fakie nosegrind to the bump to ledge. Young Tim Debuche, 15 from the south of France, had other plans though, and a 360 flip lipslide to fakie and kick flip to front nose grind on the bank to ledge was enough to turn the judges heads and award him the overall title.

1st Tim Debuche / 2nd Jorge Simoes / 3rd Justin Sommer

See the full list of results

The Nike SB Barcelona AM is the first stop Nike SB European Series that holds events in Paris, London, Berlin and Copenhagen over the course of summer.

See what’s going down here 


Enjoy below a dope photo gallery

Nike SB | Barcelona AM Qualification

Nike SB | Barcelona AM Qualification


Ishod Wair → Bomb Hill

Photo by Marcel Veldman

The European capital of skateboarding, the proving ground for AMs, Barcelona, once again blessed us with sunshine and a perfect temp for the qualifiers of the Nike SB Barcelona AM on Friday afternoon.

Many of the skaters who had travelled into Barcelona, got in the mood for the heat rounds with a classic ‘Hill Bomb’ from the top of the city down to the newly opened Barcelona Box creative space situated on Barceloneta Beach.

Stadium bleachers and screens set up around The Skate Agora skatepark in Badalona down the coast, added to the intense session atmosphere as the 120 registered skaters from across the globe threw down for the biggest AM skate event on the continent.

With only 20 skaters advancing through to the semis to meet the 20 pre-qualified riders, 3 man, 3 minute heats flew through in a blaze of fierce skating.

15 made the cut for the Saturday finals that saw a bunch of big hitters missing the grade in the insanely tough field.

Nike SB Dunk Elite Low Launch Oskar Rozenberg

Photo → Maksim Kalanep

Getting through with some man size lines, was Londoner Casper Brooker alongside Norwegian child prodigy Jonas Carlson, who showed the flow maturity of a skater a decade his senior. The top three from the semis were Didrick Galasso with trademark relaxed effortless cool, Mads Christensen solid and textbook as ever and going through in the top spot big man Alexander Risvad showing super consistency throughout the day.

Full list of results

For those that didn’t qualify there was consolation in the fact that they could let loose in town and take in the launch of the Marcel Veldman’s solo exhibition ‘Definitely Not the New Fluff Exhibition’ - skateboarding in its purest form.

The overall winner will also leave with a ‘ticket to fly’  pass getting them an invite to the Nike SB Berlin Open at the end of July


Enjoy below an awesome photo gallery