Skateboarding Takes Over Floripa | Red Bull Skate Generation

The Red Bull Skate Generation contest itself is of course just the culmination of an entire weekend of skating and get-togethers around the island of Florianópolis to celebrate skateboarding culture and the community it has built here. As part of an island tour, Grazi Olliveira went to check out the notorious Ladeira downhill which you will doubtless remember from Madars Apse’s superb episode of Skate Tales with the Yuppie family with whom this stretch of road is forever associated.

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Yndiara Asp Gives Us A Tour Around Floripa | Red Bull Skate Generation

What do you know about the most skateboarding island in the world? Let’s take a whirlwind tour of magical Florianópolis with the people who know it best. Connected to the mainland of Santa Catarina state on Brazil’s Atlantic seaboard by just an expansion bridge, Floripa- as she is affectionately known- is not only home to more bowls per square metre than anywhere else in the world but a gnarly downhill scene, world class surfing and is also a place where nature in all its diverse glory expresses itself more fully than almost anywhere else on the planet. Pedro Barros and Yndi Asp decided to give us the lowdown on the place they know as home.

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Keet Oldenbeuving Breaks Down Her ‘Classic Dot’ Setup! What I’m Riding | Santa Cruz Skateboards

Today we are stoked to link up with Keet Oldenbeuving at El Sereno Skatepark in LA for Santa Cruz’s latest installment of “What I’m Riding”! What size board does Keet ride? Does Keet prefer a steeper or medium concave? How long does she skate her boards for?! All of these questions and much much more are answered in Episode 7 filmed by Nicholas Hanson!

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