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The Punk Skateboarder Japan Can’t Tame w/ Japanese Super Rat | SKATE TALES – Red Bull

August 12, 2025 No Comments

Time to get loud! Skate Tales touches down in Japan to meet Kento Yoshioka AKA Japanese Super Rat.

The leading light of Japan’s underground skate scene, Japanese Super Rat is taking non-conformity and no-complies right to the cutting edge of Japanese creative output in skateboarding currently.

Madars rocks out with the man at the forefront of Japan’s skateboarding counter-culture before linking up with the guiding spirits behind the Evisen and Tightbooth brands to find out what makes this bundle of energy tick just as he does.

Beginning in the beachside town of Zushi, Madars and Kento retrace the formative moves which kickstarted the creation of the punk juggernaut that would become the Japanese Super Rat phenomenon of today.

Nightfall in Tokyo brings out a cast of supporting characters which help shape the wider picture of the currents within this dynamic and globally influential youth culture movement in 2025.

From fever dreams to nocturnal scenes, punk meets perseverance as Skate Tales rolls out with the Emperor of the Underground in a rare glimpse into the hidden side of Japanese skate culture!

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The Best RAW Clips w/ Madars Apse, Wes Kremer and More | SKATE TALES – Red Bull

June 8, 2023 No Comments

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!

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The Story Of Double-Amputee Pro Skater Felipe Nunes | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 4 – Red Bull

June 2, 2022 No Comments

Felipe Nunes is a 22-year old skater from Curitiba in Brazil. Aged just six, he lost both legs while playing on train tracks. After five years in a wheelchair, he was given a longboard to get around on. That longboard would become a skateboard- and the rest is history. In a short space of time he was competing in and winning contests against all-comers within his native Brazil.

People began to notice just how talented he really was. Aged eighteen, Felipe felt ready to make it beyond Brazil and started a social media fund to enter Tampa Am. Tony Hawk championed his cause, and Felipe was headed to Florida. Incredibly, he made the Semi’s, and finished 21st overall as the only adaptive skater in the contest! Felipe had the skateboarding world’s attention, and soon joined Tony’s brand Birdhouse Skateboards.
In 2019, he scored the cover of Thrasher magazine and did The Loop, second go.

Now pro for Birdhouse Skateboards, his career has gone from strength to strength. Skate Tales is all about the skateboarding stories you don’t hear- as the man himself says: no excuses!

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Madars Apse’s Skate Tales Is Back! | Season 2 Trailer – Red Bull

April 13, 2022 No Comments

Join us on April 20th for Season 2 of Skate Tales, Madars Apse’s documentary series journeying through skateboarding’s wilder shores.

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Best Of Season One | SKATE TALES

November 3, 2020 No Comments

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.