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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Red Bull Skate Generation: All You Need To Know!

Pedro Barros and friends talk us through the evolution of their family bowlriding event Skate Generation on the magical skate island of Florianópolis in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

From humble beginnings to hosting world-famous legends, the inter-generational team contest mixes locals and international pros, young and old, men and women in a celebration of skateboarding culture and community. See you on December 11th!

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