The Man, the Myth, the Legendary Skateboarder Gou Miyagi – Red Bull

Gou Miyagi is a genuine skateboarding maverick. His unique vision and the advent of the internet shot him into the big leagues of skateboarding stardom. However, the ubiquitous Gou Miyagi’s overleaping fame belied the fact that he is an intensely private person. Beyond his video output and surrealist social media feed, little is known about one of the few people in skateboarding’s history to change it permanently. This is Gou Miyagi, as close as you are ever likely to get.

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FROZEN SKATE FUN: Skateboarding a spinning ice carousel.

Roope Tonteri and Jaakko Ojanen skate mini ramp transitions on an spinning ice carousel. You may already be familiar with the crazed wanderings of Tonteri’s travelling mini-ramp. The Finnish snowboarder has resolved the quandary of ‘nice ramp, shame about the neighbourhood’ by bringing his own ramp to just about wherever his heart may roam.

High in the treeline or floated out across a lily-pond lake, and now onto the ice floes of a dead Finnish winter, Tonteri’s mini ramps are a thing of wonder. For full effect, they cut a massive disc out of the ice using chainsaws so that the ramp could gently spin to catch the wilderness panorama while they skated

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