For the Love of Skateboarding
Meet Gustavo Ribeiro, the Portuguese pro skater who is about to take his shot on the biggest stage in the world. Ride with him as he shows us around his hometown of Lisbon, Portugal.
In this episode Gustavo explains how he got into skateboarding, his dream of becoming a pro skater and how he rose through the ranks of contests making a name for himself when he made it to Street League, taking a podium finish next to his favorite skaters Shane O’neill & Nyjah Huston.
The world’s best male street skateboarders were invited to Rome, Italy for the 2021 Street Skateboarding World Championships. In the finals, each competitor is given two run attempts and five best-trick attempts, with the top four scores being counted towards their final total score.
Not only are the stakes high to crown a World Champion, but this event also serves as the final qualification event for Tokyo. By the end of the event, all countries’ street skate athletes will be decided, making this a big moment in the world of skateboarding.
Competitors List:
Jake Ilardi
Matt Berger
Micky Papa
Sora Shirai
Jagger Eaton
Kelvin Hoefler
Yuto Horigome
Nyjah Huston
The world’s best women street skateboarders were invited to Rome, Italy for the 2021 Street Skateboarding World Championships. In the finals, each competitor is given two run attempts and five best-trick attempts, with the top four scores being counted towards their final total score.
Not only are the stakes high to crown a World Champion, but this event also serves as the final qualification event for Tokyo. By the end of the event, all countries’ street skate athletes will be decided, making this a big moment in the world of skateboarding.
Competitors List:
Leticia Bufoni
Momiji Nishiya
Pamela Rosa
Mariah Duran
Funa Nakayama
Aori Nishimura
Rayssa Leal
Now boarding, Jake Wooten in New Orleans, with the keys to an empty airport and a terminal full of dream features to skate. The baggage claims and escalators and VIP lounges are all fair game, without a single security guard in site. No lines, no crowds, no TSA — Jake had the entire airport to himself and a custom park build that looks like it’s straight out of a video game.
For Screaming Vlog 32 Santa Cruz Skateboards met up with SC Pro Jake Wooten at Wharton St. Warehouse in Philly to officially welcome Devin Flynn to Team Red Bull! Devin had no idea Jake was pulling up, so naturally he was already ripping at Wharton HQ. Once Jake hands Devin his new headwear, the session gets fired up to next level stoke! Jump in on the session with Devin, Jake, and the whole Wharton St. Crew and enjoy the celebratory session.
Margie’s story is an incredible one. From starting out skating around the densely packed streets of Cebu city in the Philippines aged just 12, she has enjoyed a stratospheric rise and in so doing she has raised the profile of skate culture not just in her home country but the entire region.
There comes a crossroads moment in the young lives of talented skateboarders where they have to ask themselves where all this is headed. While skateboarding is always its own reward, pursuing it full-time is by no means a guarantee of success. It’s a lifestyle full of uncertainties: injuries, sponsorship, rained-out contests where a third place could have paid your rent. So it’s not for everyone, even among those good enough to make it. In that context, you can forgive a parent for asking ‘Are you serious?’
Fabulous Brazilian transition queen Yndiara Asp faced that life-defining decision. Part of the fabled Florianópolis bowl-skating tradition that gave the world Pedro Barros, Yndi was originally headed for an adult working life in education when she was spotted by Santa Cruz Skateboards while riding the bowl at a skate guesthouse right by the beach.
In the Season 2 finale of Joey Brezinski’s Official Skatepark Review, Joey and Rip link up with Carter Oeflein, Seu Trinh, Jagger Eaton, and Deathwish Skateboards’ very own Neen Williams at one of San Diego’s biggest and best-furnished skateparks. With three bowls, multiple stairsets, and countless kickers, this park took a full day to review – but it was worth it!
Skating in Philadelphia is hard. Rugged terrain, uneven sidewalks, and every weather condition imaginable is hurled at skaters whose goal is to thrash the City of Brotherly Love. “The streets are rough. The spots are rough. There’s a lot you’ve got to battle,” says Kerry Getz, owner of iconic Philly skate shop, Nocturnal. But adversity breeds creativity and that’s the message “Greetings From Philadelphia” communicates loud and clear.
The “Greetings From” series takes a deep dive into the skateboarding culture of some of the world’s most iconic cities. Not just the terrain—the gaps and the rails—but also the soul of the people that drive the scene, and the history that has shaped the lifestyle today. With episodes shot in Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Marseille and more, Greetings From Philadelphia’s is a 16-minute visual tour of one of the United States’ most historic cities.
Road warrior Dani Millan’s Searching for the Mayas action remix follows pro skaters Jaakko Ojanen, Madars Apse, Angelo Caro and Zack Wallin on tour throughout Belize, Guatemala and Mexico!
Red Bull final supercharged skate mission before lockdown took on Europe’s final skate frontiers: Wes Kremer, Josef Scott, Madars Apse, Ben Skrzypek and Tino Arena set out on a 13-day mega-tour to skate the capital cities of the southern Balkan states of Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia on a huge overland journey involving hospitals, sunset sessions, food poisoning and UN peacekeepers along the way.
Late in the last summer before lockdown, SK8MAFIA’s Wes Kremer, Element Skateboards’ Madars Apse, Sour Skateboards’ Josef Scott and widely- respected veteran Ben Skrzypek were joined by vibesman Tino Arena on a 13-day skate mission through the southern Balkans to spread the good word of global skate culture all the way from the beach towns of Albania to the killer skate scene in Skopje, North Macedonia via Montenegro and Kosovo.