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The Punk Skateboarder Japan Can’t Tame w/ Japanese Super Rat | SKATE TALES – Red Bull

August 12, 2025 No Comments

Time to get loud! Skate Tales touches down in Japan to meet Kento Yoshioka AKA Japanese Super Rat.

The leading light of Japan’s underground skate scene, Japanese Super Rat is taking non-conformity and no-complies right to the cutting edge of Japanese creative output in skateboarding currently.

Madars rocks out with the man at the forefront of Japan’s skateboarding counter-culture before linking up with the guiding spirits behind the Evisen and Tightbooth brands to find out what makes this bundle of energy tick just as he does.

Beginning in the beachside town of Zushi, Madars and Kento retrace the formative moves which kickstarted the creation of the punk juggernaut that would become the Japanese Super Rat phenomenon of today.

Nightfall in Tokyo brings out a cast of supporting characters which help shape the wider picture of the currents within this dynamic and globally influential youth culture movement in 2025.

From fever dreams to nocturnal scenes, punk meets perseverance as Skate Tales rolls out with the Emperor of the Underground in a rare glimpse into the hidden side of Japanese skate culture!

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India’s First Female Pro Skater: Atita Verghese | RED BULL SKATE TALES

December 1, 2023 No Comments

Atita Verghese is India’s foremost female skater. She discovered skateboard culture through the country’s Holystoked crew who built India’s first DIY skatepark in Bangalore.

As soon as she set foot on a board, her life changed forever- and she has never looked back. In 2014, Atita founded Girl Skate India, an NGO which encourages young women to follow her path into the great big world of skateboarding for themselves.

Atita is an inspiration to women worldwide- but especially in India, a nation of a billion souls where skating is still in its infancy.

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Linking up with Brazil’s newest Pro-skater Vitória Mendonça | RED BULL SKATE TALES

November 27, 2023 No Comments

It is so great stretch to say that Vitória Mendonça is the modern face of skateboarding today. Having just been turned professional by her board sponsor Element Skateboards at CPH Open 2023, she has the world at her feet- but it wasn’t always this way.

From a humble background in Rio de Janeiro, her skating ability has raised her up to become one of the most visible girls in the worldwide sponsorship game today. Moreover, she has also parlayed her talent into a successful parallel career as a model.

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A New Approach To Skateboarding With Takahiro Morita | SKATE TALES – Red Bull

August 1, 2023 No Comments

Takahiro Morita is a very different sort of skateboarder, really. Japanese skating has changed the coastline of possibility in skateboarding, mostly thanks to the FESN movement. The Far East Skate Network’s videos brought the new Japanese way of seeing and of being to the wider skateboarding world, thereby making all of skateboarding society more imaginative- and maybe a little kinder, too. Takahiro is the brains behind the FESN, and someone more personally responsible for opening up the concept of what skating can be today than almost anyone else in recent years.

From cruising Tokyo to dazzling the Japanese art world, his considered approach to what skateboarding can mean makes him one of the most genuinely unique minds which skate culture has produced, full stop. Madars simply had to meet him!

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Meet One Of The Pioneers Of Street Skateboarding Mike Vallely | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 6

June 30, 2022 No Comments

In truth, we probably haven’t got enough bandwidth to do the twists and turns of Mike Vallely’s skateboarding life story justice- so let us perhaps instead consider some of the many roles he has played in order to provide some context as to what makes him such an enduring enigma. Now settled with his family in Des Moines, Iowa he has enjoyed a 35-year pro skating career on his own terms. There are no other Mike Vallely’s. Madars Apse hits the streets with a true original to learn about Street Plant, punk rock and the journey of a street scoundrel from New Jersey.

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Building Skateparks & Community With The Uganda Skateboard Society | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 5 – Red Bull

June 16, 2022 No Comments

The Uganda Skateboard Society has recently launched a fundraiser with the goal of raising money to buy land to build their next skatepark. In 2016 the local skaters in Uganda built a DIY skatepark, which has formed a cornerstone of the Uganda Skateboard Society and become a gathering place for skaters in the area. The community is now at a place where they are looking to raise funds to purchase land for the new home of skateboarding in Uganda, so that they can buy enough land to have a store and an office as well as a new skatepark.

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Experience Native American Skate Culture With Apache Skateboards | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 3 – Red Bull

May 19, 2022 No Comments

Douglas Miles Junior is one of the scions of a new wave of indigenous skaters fusing their roots in native American culture with the modern movement of skateboarding.

Born and raised in Arizona´s San Carlos Apache Reservation, he was introduced to skateboarding by his father, the acclaimed fine artist Douglas Miles Sr.

Doug Sr. had started painting on skateboards as a medium and given the groundswell of interest this created, he founded Apache Skateboards, a brand in which the Apache community could recognise a connection to their own culture within this relatively new form of expression.

As a marginalised and often overlooked people, Native Americans have proven incredibly resourceful in developing and nurturing new iterations of their ancient culture, and Doug Junior spent his formative skating years touring other indigenous reservations teaching Native American youngsters how they could become drawn into skate culture without losing sight of their own heritage.

Sometimes, when you can’t find space for your own chapter, you have to re-write the book.

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Kilian Martin Freestyle Skating In Madrid | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 2 – Red Bull

May 5, 2022 No Comments

Kilian Martin hails from the Alcorcon neighbourhood in Madrid, Spain. Not long after he began his skating journey, Kilian discovered Powell Peralta’s legendary ‘Ban This’ video, which introduced him to freestyle skating. Join Red Bull in Madrid as Madars takes Kilian back to his roots for a flatland masterclass in this walloping episode of Skate Tales!