This six-minute belter from everyone’s favourite Latvian contains all the ingredients of a timeless Madars Apse video part: innovative, inventive skating, a different eye for spots and a personal style all of his own.
A New Approach To Skateboarding With Takahiro Morita | SKATE TALES – Red Bull
Takahiro Morita is a very different sort of skateboarder, really. Japanese skating has changed the coastline of possibility in skateboarding, mostly thanks to the FESN movement. The Far East Skate Network’s videos brought the new Japanese way of seeing and of being to the wider skateboarding world, thereby making all of skateboarding society more imaginative- and maybe a little kinder, too. Takahiro is the brains behind the FESN, and someone more personally responsible for opening up the concept of what skating can be today than almost anyone else in recent years.
From cruising Tokyo to dazzling the Japanese art world, his considered approach to what skateboarding can mean makes him one of the most genuinely unique minds which skate culture has produced, full stop. Madars simply had to meet him!
Skate trip through Argentina with No Hotels | SKATE TALES – Red Bull
The No Hotels crew are skateboarding’s Beatniks. The Floridians are on a mission to experience the world through skateboarding in the most rudimentary way: living simply, making art, camping where they can and filming their experiences on old cameras along the way.
Their skate philosophy is a throwback to the romance of the open road that American Beat novelist Jack Kerouac first captured in his 1957 book ‘On The Road’.
Madars had to find out more about what makes these rippers tick, so he joins them on a skate mission of nearly 500 kilometres through Argentina to get a sense of their skateboarding life lived with just one single rule: No Hotels!
The Best RAW Clips w/ Madars Apse, Wes Kremer and More | SKATE TALES – Red Bull
Enjoy some raw clips, out-takes, near-misses and unexpected moments from the streets of Argentina, India, Japan, Brazil, Spain and the USA during the making of an epic Season 3 as Red Bull releases another globetrotting series of Madars Apse’s worldwide exploration of skateboarding’s wilder shores!
Learn 10 Unusual Skateboard Tricks With Madars Apse – Red Bull
Madars Apse is a bit of a magician when it comes to trying new tricks. He’s crazy talented to begin with—first tries come pretty naturally—but the guy has a knack for adapting to all sorts of styles of skating and working through new tricks with ease. While filming for Skate Tales season 2, Madars picked up a few new ones from characters like freestyle legend Kilian Martin, Brazilian phenom Felipe Nunes, the creative madmen from Fancy Lad, and street skating legend Mike Valley.
Meet One Of The Pioneers Of Street Skateboarding Mike Vallely | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 6
In truth, we probably haven’t got enough bandwidth to do the twists and turns of Mike Vallely’s skateboarding life story justice- so let us perhaps instead consider some of the many roles he has played in order to provide some context as to what makes him such an enduring enigma. Now settled with his family in Des Moines, Iowa he has enjoyed a 35-year pro skating career on his own terms. There are no other Mike Vallely’s. Madars Apse hits the streets with a true original to learn about Street Plant, punk rock and the journey of a street scoundrel from New Jersey.
Building Skateparks & Community With The Uganda Skateboard Society | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 5 – Red Bull
The Uganda Skateboard Society has recently launched a fundraiser with the goal of raising money to buy land to build their next skatepark. In 2016 the local skaters in Uganda built a DIY skatepark, which has formed a cornerstone of the Uganda Skateboard Society and become a gathering place for skaters in the area. The community is now at a place where they are looking to raise funds to purchase land for the new home of skateboarding in Uganda, so that they can buy enough land to have a store and an office as well as a new skatepark.
Experience Native American Skate Culture With Apache Skateboards | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 3 – Red Bull
Douglas Miles Junior is one of the scions of a new wave of indigenous skaters fusing their roots in native American culture with the modern movement of skateboarding.
Born and raised in Arizona´s San Carlos Apache Reservation, he was introduced to skateboarding by his father, the acclaimed fine artist Douglas Miles Sr.
Doug Sr. had started painting on skateboards as a medium and given the groundswell of interest this created, he founded Apache Skateboards, a brand in which the Apache community could recognise a connection to their own culture within this relatively new form of expression.
As a marginalised and often overlooked people, Native Americans have proven incredibly resourceful in developing and nurturing new iterations of their ancient culture, and Doug Junior spent his formative skating years touring other indigenous reservations teaching Native American youngsters how they could become drawn into skate culture without losing sight of their own heritage.
Sometimes, when you can’t find space for your own chapter, you have to re-write the book.
Kilian Martin Freestyle Skating In Madrid | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 2 – Red Bull
Kilian Martin hails from the Alcorcon neighbourhood in Madrid, Spain. Not long after he began his skating journey, Kilian discovered Powell Peralta’s legendary ‘Ban This’ video, which introduced him to freestyle skating. Join Red Bull in Madrid as Madars takes Kilian back to his roots for a flatland masterclass in this walloping episode of Skate Tales!
Re-Imagine Skateboarding With The Fancy Lad Crew | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 1 – Red Bull
With his sails set on exploring the wilder shores of skate culture around the world, there was no way that Madars’ global exploration of the skate underground Skate Tales wasn’t going to pitch up with Matt Tomasello and the Fancy Lad brigade, sooner or later.
Madars Apse’s Skate Tales Is Back! | Season 2 Trailer – Red Bull
Join us on April 20th for Season 2 of Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s documentary series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores.
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.