For the Love of Skateboarding
Red Bull’s ‘Drop-In’ Euro Tour 2022 through some of the continent’s most vital skate scenes, which comprised of no less than five incredible skate demo’s in five different countries over just eight days.
Enjoy Ira Ingram’s view of how Red Bull’s international road crew Ryan Sheckler, Jamie Foy, Torey Pudwill, Zion Wright, Leticia Bufoni, Gustavo Ribeiro, Margie Didal, Alex Sorgente and Felipe Gustavo blew the roof off demos in Barcelona, Marseille, Prague, Cologne and Amsterdam!
September through October 2022 saw the Red Bull Skateboarding team traverse five blowout demo stops across Europe, hosted by some of Europe’s finest talent along the way.
In what proved to be an international highlight of the European skate scene in 2022, Ryan Sheckler, Jamie Foy, Torey Pudwill, Zion Wright, Leticia Bufoni, Gustavo Ribeiro, Margie Didal, Alex Sorgente and Felipe Gustavo wowed the faithful who came out in amazing numbers to vibe with the team right throughout Barcelona, Marseille, Prague, Cologne and Amsterdam.
On top of the demos, we also got a lot of street skating done on some hallowed and legendary European skate terrain, from the ledges of Marseille through the stair-sets of Cologne and the handrails of Amsterdam.
Enjoy every heater from eight days of skating mayhem in this single smasher of a highlight clip from the lens of Ira Ingram!
Go behind the scenes of BIG SKY with unreleased footage of all the attempts, slams, makes and throwaway clips from Jake Wooten’s recent Red Bull Skateboarding video part. (Including the front 3 ender heard ‘round the world!).
Spend sun up to sun down on the skate programme around Vancouver BC with Red Bull’s main man Ryan Decenzo, as we share a Field Day down memory lane with Canada’s most decorated street skater of all time.
Leticia Bufoni has spent her life breaking boundaries. In her endless search for skateboarding thrills, she has recently spent an intensive few months of training in order to combine her love of skating with her second passion: skydiving!
Her brand-new Sky Grind project involved 9,000 feet of altitude, an aircraft from the Fast And Furious movie franchise, a skydiving expert from the Mission Impossible movie franchise, skate obstacles, parachutes- and potentially the most hair-raising skateboard trick ever recorded!
Canadian skateboarder Ryan Decenzo returns to Whistler, Canada and sets his sights on a new challenge to recreate a plywood snow gap that Rick McCrank Frontside 180’d in the early 2000s in an eS skate video. Ryan raises the bar by traversing a twenty-foot winter creek gap on his skateboard using nothing more than the landscape for power.
A bluesy and soulful place with a historically resourceful and independently-minded skate scene (one great early example of which was the success of Clan Skates’ locally-sourced Poizone clothing label of thirty years ago), Glasgow’s skate scene has a feel and energy all of its own. Jamie Foy, Margie Didal and Jake Wooten meet the locals behind the many DIY skate projects which have filled a physical and cultural gap left by an ambivalent local council, and discover how a skate scene survives partially undercover in a country where rain is alas no stranger.
England’s cultural juggernaut of a city makes for one of the country’s most interesting skate scenes precisely because it has got so much going against it. Despite a central architecture that reflects the city’s previous importance to the cotton trade- meaning New York-style tall buildings and relatively narrow streets (the cotton was moved by boats), Manchester’s skate scene has not only survived council bans and inclement weather, but is absolutely flourishing right now.
As Eddie Belvedere notes during the episode: “It’s just constant- it’s just growth, man- it’s never going to stop, I don’t think.”
London is a world city and has been a facet of international skateboarding folklore since the days of vert ramps under the walkway at Crystal Palace, through 411 Video Magazine, Static, Palace and right up to this moment in time as a result.
It’s all love behind Alex Sorgente’s all-terrain attack on heavy street and transition spots here in his second full-length video part. With Tylre Wilcox behind the lens, Sorge stacked clips across Brazil, Portugal, Florida and California for this, his Vero Amore.
Back after 10 years is the Redbull manny event in sunny Brooklyn NY.
In 2012, Lisa Whitaker created Meow Skateboards to fill a void in the skate industry — she and her crew saw little-to-no support for women’s skateboarding. Now, 10 years later here in 2022, Lisa and Meow have a team of more than a dozen top talents in skateboarding reppin’ the boards and the brand’s mission every time they put wheels to concrete.