MADARS APSE & ALEX KENNEDY GET READY FOR SIMPLE SESSION 2024 IN TARTU, ESTONIA

Madars Apse and Alex Kennedy, OGs from Simple Session, journey back to where it all started: Tartu, Estonia. This iconic location is where the Simple Session tale began 24 years ago. The festivities come full circle as Tartu proudly dons the title of European Capital of Culture in August 2024. Highlighting the celebration, Simple Session emerges as one of the marquee events slated for August 24–25, 2024. Tartu, we’re coming home!

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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!

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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!

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E.S.P. VOL.2 EXPANDED : APPLEYARD/ FUNA/ KANYA/ VICTOR/ RYO/ MADARS/ DONNY/ YUKITO

This edition of E.S.P. VOL 2: Expanded has gone full team spirit, with the raw clips from Mark Appleyard, Kanya Spani, Funa Nakayama, Victor Cascarigny, Yukito Aoki, Ryo Sejiri, Madars Apse and Donny Barley. Skating spots in every corner of the globe, the team made E.S.P. VOL 2 a worldwide affair. From legends to up-and-comers alike, see what went down while filming the video and even how Funa earned a THRASHER cover with her front crook at Hollywood High. This series is a rare look into the making of a full team skate video…This is E.S.P. VOL 2 Expanded.

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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.

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Red Bull Manny Mania 2022 LIVE Watch Party

After nearly 10 years, Red Bull Manny Mania is BACK to showcase the most technical manual skateboarding in the world with its first ever digital competition format. Each of the following skaters were tasked with submitting their top 4 manual clips in the streets for a chance at the $10,000 top prize: Dylan Jaeb, Vitoria Mendonca, Nanaka Fujisawa, Madars Apse, Breana Geering, Becker Dunn, Kristin Ebeling, John Dilo, Chris Colbourn, Myles De Courcy, Fabiana Delfino, Spencer Semien, Margie Didal, Victor Brooks, Adrianne Sloboh, Brandon Valjalo, Haley Isaak and Sewa Kroetkov.

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JUNKYARD | A Skateboard Montage

Featuring Ronnie Kessner, Jamie Foy, Nick Zizzo, Joe Tocco, Troy Betances, John Dilo, Kevin Love, Tyler Bolar, Christian Dufrene, Matt Skakun, Stephen Carty, Dakota Hunt, Patrick Praman, Josh Douglas, Liam McCabe, Will Gomez, Cody Jacobson, Frankie Heck, Chris Wimer, Ish Cepeda, Sam Atkins and Madars Apse.

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