The Chinese port city of Shanghai has sparked Western imaginations for centuries. Wildly evocative of adventure and international intrigue, the city has been the secondary star of many movies which have used her alleyways and skylines as a majestic backdrop to everything from Hollywood romances to martial arts blockbusters.
Red Bull: Not Your Usual Skate Trip | Hotel Uzbekistan: Action Cut
Vladik Scholz, Rob Wootton, Ethan Loy and Pasha Kuznetsov skateboard through the architecture of Uzbekistan. This is all the action from the skate trip.
Skatepark Turned Board Game – How We Made ‘The Maze’ w/ Madars Apse, Vladik Scholz & Crew
A man ever on the hunt for new challenges and terrains, German ripper Vladik Scholz linked up with master skatepark craftsman Andreas Schutzenberger to roll out a pioneering indoor skatepark project: a hydraulic tilting skatepark labyrinth known as The Maze. Based on the ubiquitous childhood marble game of yore, Schutzi’s 40-ton, 21 sq m skatepark creation is suspended 3m into the air on a series of hydraulic jacks which make the floor slope in any chosen direction – even as you skate it!
Press play to go behind the scenes with Vladik & Andreas to find out how they made this amazing one-of-a-kind skatepark.
Skaters Dream Board Game: The Maze w/ Vladik Scholz, Madars Apse, Gustavo Ribeiro & Jost Arens
Watch Gustavo Ribeiro, Jost Arens and Madars Apse join Vladik Scholz to rip a hydraulically alive skatepark pursued by a malicious marble in his latest creative skate adventure.
Can You Skate The Silk Road? | HOTEL UZBEKISTAN Part 3 – Red Bull
Patrik Wallner’s trilogy of skate edits from Uzbekistan concludes, as Ethan Loy, Vladik Scholz, Pasha Kuznetsov and Rob Wootton hit Samarkand.
A Skate Mission Train Ride Deep Into Uzebekistan | HOTEL UZBEKISTAN Part 2
All aboard as Red Bull’s skate tour of Uzbekistan continues on to the virgin terrain of Nukus with Ethan Loy, Rob Wooten, Vladik Scholz & Pasha Kuznetsov!
Red Bull – Skate Central Asia with Ethan Loy & Crew | HOTEL UZBEKISTAN Part 1
Join Ethan Loy along with his crew consisting of Rob Wootton, Vladik Scholz and Pasha Kuznetsov in part one of a huge overland skate mission of Central Asia for Patrik Wallner’s new three-part series called Hotel Uzbekistan.
Red Bull – The Making Of OPTICAL ILLUSION with Madars Apse, Tyler Surrey, Barney Page & Friends
Skateboarding meets magic as we enter the world of optical skate illusions, employing only visual tricks to create a phantasmagoria with no post-production effects used. This unprecedented project will become a viral crossover feature by employing only visual tricks to create a phantasmagoria for the viewer with no post-production effects employed.
Director Gaston Francisco breaks down how he came up with the idea for the project along with how his team accomplished it without using computer graphics. Featuring Madars Apse, Tyler Surrey, Barney Page, Vladik Scholz & Danny Leon.
Riding down Draculas haunted hills in Transylvania. | Skate Tours – Red Bull
Join one of the biggest ever pro skate tours of Romania, one of Eastern Europe’s most mysterious countries. Johan Stuckey, Aidan Campbell, Philipp Schuster, Vladik Scholz, Mihnea Groseanu and Barney Page stagecoach it on a skate adventure through Dracula country. Dare you join the Transylvania skate mission?
Skating an abandoned bobsleigh track | Exploring the Balkans Ep. 2
Red Bull athletes Simon Stricker and Vladik Scholz lead a squad of American skaters Brian Delatorre, Al Davis and Cyrus Bennett right throughout the former Yugoslavia. Using local contacts and experience, the project was able to take in skateboarding from Dubrovnik to Mostar, and Sarajevo to Belgrade.
We took 6 skaters on a trip across the Balkans | Exploring the Balkans Ep. 1
Welcome to our two-part skate series in which two Red Bull athletes (Simon Stricker and Vladik Scholz) lead a squad of American sponsored skaters right throughout the former Yugoslavia. Using local contacts and experience, the project was able to take in skateboarding from Dubrovnik to Mostar, and Sarajevo to Belgrade. The team skate an abandoned bobsleigh track from the Sarajevo winter olympics which was used as an arms dump during the civil war, and find spots where stray boards have to be abandoned due to the presence of uncleared land mines in the vicinity. Shredding across Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia in the presence of taste-making US pro’s Brian Delatorre, Al Davis and Cyrus Bennett alongside cult newcomer Andrew Wilson, this release will be accompanied by a parallel feature in Transworld Skateboarding magazine!.
The World is Big…Go Skate It! – Best of Red Bull Skateboarding in 2016
Madars Apse, Marius Syvanen, Felipe Gustavo, Pat Duffy, Milton Martinez, Tyler Surrey, Vladik Scholz, Josef Scott, Thaynan Costa, Brad McClain, Maxim Kruglov, Sebo Walker, Alessandro Sorgente, Jamie Tancowny, Barney Page, Chris Haslam, TJ Rogers, Nestor Judkins, Axel Cruysberghs, Willy Akers, Philipp Schuster, Walker Ryan and many more jumped in the van marked ‘Forward’ as we set off to put new licks on the planet in hand-picked session squadrons headed to pretty much everywhere an ollie could be popped. So sit back and enjoy some of the global bangers we collected from 2016 …and then get off the couch and go skate!