Spend a Day with Santa Cruz Pro Jake Wooten | Field Day – Red Bull

Jake Wooten has the highest energy of anyone on the session. The Tennessee transplant invited Santa Cruz to his apartment in Oceanside, California to tag along on a typical day in his life. In the morning, we sit in on a lesson in balcony herb gardening then hit up the insanely vast Poods Park for a session with Keegan Palmer and Toby Young.

Sticking with his ‘two outdoor activities a day’ mantra, Jake and the squad then roll over to Encinitas to shoot hoops in the late afternoon. How does he follow-up a heated game of 3-on-3? A stop at his go-to gourmet Korean barbecue spot for endless KBBQ (that he almost gets for free)!

Back home with his beloved cat Zula, Jake reflects on the differences between his Tennessee roots and the life of a newly-minted professional in the hothouse of Californian skating. Intelligent, thoughtful, gifted and charming, Jake Wooten has the world at his feet right now. Take ten minutes to get to know him above!

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Gustavo Ribeiro’s Road To Recovery | MUNDO GUSTAVO ‘BONUS EPISODE’ – Red Bull

When a shoulder injury almost derailed Gustavo Ribeiro’s most important contest season of his competitive life to date, he took up an offer to come to Austria and use the state-of-the-art-facilities at Red Bull’s Athlete Performance Centre and spend some time in Salzburg rehabilitating before Tokyo.
This bonus episode of Mundo Gustavo dives deeper into the family strength, support and resources that can make all the difference in the top flight of competitive skateboarding- as well as learning what’s good in Salzburg!

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REPLAY: Red Bull Skate Generation 2021

Watch Red Bull Skate Generation 2021 from the RTMF compound on the island of Florianópolis off the Atlantic coast of Brazil. From humble beginnings, the inter-generational team contest mixes locals and international pros, young and old, men and women in a celebration of skateboarding culture and community.
Held in the family home of Brazilian legend Pedro Barros and his fabulous clan, this year’s edition saw Rune Glifberg, Pedro, Allysha Le, Weslley Alves and Minna Stess walk away with the team title and bragging rights after edging out all comers on his home turf!

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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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