For the Love of Skateboarding
Watch some of Red Bull’s favorite moments from Season One of Skate Tales – Madars Apse’s new series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores.
Madars was always intrigued by the outliers and misfits – the skaters that other skaters are terrified of. Being such a unique individual himself, this is Madars’s world and so we joined up with him on a global search for the skateboarding stories you don’t hear every day.
Welcome indeed to Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s new series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores. In this episode Madars travels to Osaka, Japan, to meet the Osaka Daggers skate crew. This crew built the underground skate scene in Japan and when you see them skate you’ll see the passion they bring!
Welcome indeed to Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s new series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores. In this episode Madars tackles the Megaramp with Beaver Fleming in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Fleming’s help, Apse just might be able to take on the mini Megaramp!
For episode four of Skate Tales, Madars hightails it to Ethiopia to meet the skate crew building a scene from scratch in one of the world’s oldest countries. The story of Ethiopia Skate is as real as it gets: from a parking lot in Addis Ababa, Henok Yetbarek, Michael Baheru, Ruel Desta, Babure ‘Babu G’ Teferi, Yeabkal Abraham and Yared Gobezie started a skate movement which would snowball with the help of two American skaters, JT Rhoades and Sean Stromsoe. Within 3 years they would link up with Make Life Skate Life to build Ethiopia’s first free skatepark in the capital, and a year later they would double down on their success by building a second in Awassa. Nowadays Ethiopia Skate has 150 skaters enlisted from around the country, and has registered as a non- profit in the USA meaning they can accept tax- deductible donations to keep their skatehouse open, build more terrain and, as Sean tells Madars ‘create more opportunity through skateboarding’. Madars came by to build and inspire, listen and learn in a beautiful one from the Skate Tales storybook.
Welcome indeed to Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s new series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores.Int his episode Madars meets up with fellow skateboarder Dan Mancina in Detroit, Michigan, to hear his journey of relearning how to skateboard after slowly losing his sight.
Welcome indeed to Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s new series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores. In this episode Madars travels to Brazil to learn from downhill legend Sergio Yuppie. Visit Yuppie’s factory to see a skateboard get made before hitting the streets.
Welcome to Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s new series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores.
Madars’s passion for skateboarding is there for all to see: the multi-talented, easy-going Latvian master has brought a new dimension of creativity and flow to the world of professional skating. From his very earliest times in skating, though, Madars was always intrigued by the outliers and misfits – the skaters that other skaters are terrified of. Being such a unique individual himself, this is Madars’s world and so we joined up with him on a global search for the skateboarding stories you don’t hear every day.
At over 1300km’s long, Icelands ring road circles the breath taking landscape of this unique country. From the blue lagoon and Reykjavik to the east fjords and magical sun that never seems to set, the ring road is the perfect path through an enchanting country. Join Josh Matthews, Madars Apse, Tyler Bledsoe, Kevin Terpening and Dan Plunket as they scour the island for spots to skate and sights to see.