Tag: skatedeluxe

The skatedeluxe team went to one of the two former capital cities of the Habsburg empire. A place where we feel communist styles, contemporary and former imperial styles all come together in one city. All in all, these two cities Buda & Pest on the shores of the Danube prove to be a great backdrop for this wonderful video by Dan Schulz.

Skatedeluxe released a new video filmed on Gran Canaria featuring Adilson Pedro, Pol Catena, Kevin Ozcan, Martin Sandberg & Willow Voges Fernandes. The variety of spots on this island is still crazy every time we see a clip from there. Enjoy!

No trip to Marseille is complete without a Victor Campillo trick, but also no Skatedeluxe edit goes by without an epic series of bangers by Willow! The Skatedeluxe team is looking strong in 2022.

Another one from Warsaw, Poland. This time, it´s the Skatedeluxe team visiting the eastern capital and it seems they had a very good time skating and exploring the city. Nice to see a skate trip not going to Spain or to another classic travel destination.

A video by Dan Schulz.

Tour edits are extremely rare these days. Never thought we would miss sitting in an airport, looking around the overcrowded gate while waiting for a delayed flight. Skatedeluxe went to Athens and took Manny Lopez, Matt Debauche, Ike Fromme, Denny Pham, Martin Sandberg & Willow Voges Fernandes with them.

A film by Dan Schulz, all photos by Dennis Scholz.

A nice pre-lockdown flash of skating by some very nice skaters. We want to give Ike Fromme a special little S/O because he really did some spicy stuff in this one.

Denny Pham, Pol Catena, Matt Debauche, Sascha Scharf, Ike Fromme, Douwe Macare, Dan Schulz, Florian ‘Burny’ Hopfensperger, 

To many of us, the Italian island of Sicily is the home of La Cosa Nostra but it is also the gateway to Africa or the first step to a new life in Europe.

Once a part of Tunisia, Sicily has a special place within the shoe-shaped country and you will see that once you click play and you see the spots, the scenery and the Skatedeluxe team crushing it.

Design is often based on other design, how many Ferrari shaped bedsheets or My Little Pony shaped birthday cakes have we not seen in our life?

So when Nike remastered the Janoski for its 10-year anniversary they also looked outside, they probably looked at animals, the sky, cement patterns, but in the end, I believe they simply looked out of their Beaverton office window onto the parking lot and there they found the answer sitting in the swooshes own parking lot.

(disclaimer: this might not be factual, they might have just found pictures of the car on the internet)

Photos by Danny Sommerfeld.
Text by Roland Hoogwater.

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The Volkswagen Polo “Harlekin’s” story connects to the Janoski in multiple ways. It was in 1994 that the German company wanted to draw attention to their newly-updated Polo model but the problem they had to solve was:

“How do we get people to look at the newness?”.

The answer came in all colors! They devised a special showroom model of the new 6N, this model would breathe NEW! But this model was only meant to show off in the showroom it wasn’t available to the public… Well a couple of the showroom models actually did get sold afterwards and those cars began to create “word of mouth” on the streets and when the streets are talking the people at VW were listening.

1995 swings around and featured in the catalog is the now legendary VW 6N Harlekin as demanded by the public and in 2019 a similar story can be told about Nike SB’s Janoski shoe. Like the Polo, it looks similar but it is not quite the same, from little leather linings to the tape on the sole, everything has been tweaked for ’19 and that is where the two stories meet.

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Fast forward to the 10th of May, Denny Pham, Jan Henrik Kongstein, Peter Buikema, Leo Preisinger and myself find ourselves driving around Berlin in a VW Harlekin wearing the Janoski Harlekin, we are putting both through the wringer for the next 2,5 days.

We didn’t do that alone, of course, we invited some Nike riders and Berlin locals to test it with us along the way.

To be honest the car has had a bit more mileage than the shoe but both held up quite well during our time even though Leo had his doubts about the car.

After the 2.5 days we concluded a couple of things:

  1. Denny Pham skates like he is playing THPS.
  2. The “new” Janoski looks better than the “old” Janoski (look closely).
  3. Jan Kliewer can shove his board like it is 1991.
  4. Jan Henrik like all people in Norway is hella tech.
  5. Michael Mackrodt drives a car the same way he skates.

Thank you for the support Skatedeluxe and Nike SB <3

Last Friday Nike SB, Skatehalle Berlin & Skatedeluxe teamed up to put on an event in celebration of women all over the world. This event took place in the city we call home, Berlin. The event’s organizers asked us to document the whole thing and we answered by asking if we could add some karaoke in the mix?

“Karaoke, how? The event is at the skatepark”

“There are these Karaoke caravans you can rent for the day, we can park it in front of the park!”

And sure enough our wish was their command and the celebration was on!

Now meet the women that made the event special.

Meet Sara, she was the host of the PLACE karaoke bus. She also documented International Women's day for us.
Meet Sara, she was the host of the PLACE karaoke bus. She also documented International Women’s day for us & in our opinion is the Gertrude Stein of the skateboard world!

Now meet Moonia, she is Sara's best friend.
Now meet Moonia, she is Sara’s best friend.

Now meet our new favorite up & coming skater! She was shorter than her board but twice as tough, had a need for speed and had the entire skatepark crowd following her every move like a tennisball at the wimbledon finals.
Now meet our new favorite up & coming skater!
She was shorter than her board but twice as tough, had a need for speed and had the entire skatepark crowd following her every move like a tennisball at the wimbledon finals.

Meet Kim, most of the girls that skate know Kim, she has outstanding hair!
Meet Kim, most of the girls that skate know Kim, she has outstanding hair!

She also likes to sing and swing, A LOT! The karaoke bus was like a flytrap, and she was stuck!
She also likes to sing and swing, A LOT!
The karaoke bus was like a flytrap, and she was stuck!

This is Marina, she is from Croatia & she is part of the organization behind the Vladimir film festival. An event you must attend this year.
This is Marina, she is from Croatia & she is part of the organization behind the Vladimir film festival.
An event you must attend this year.

This is Lea Isabell, we once interviewed her and she has a lot of great ideas. Be on the look out, you will see more of her sooner rather than later!
This is Lea Isabell, we once interviewed her and she has a lot of great ideas.
Be on the look out, you will see more of her sooner rather than later!

This is Valerie she might be in the dictionary under "Cool" or "Sweet".
This is Valerie she might be in the dictionary under “Cool” or “Sweet”.

This is Marisa, she has a lot of good stories to tell! She was born in AZ and has traveled the world! We would love for her to start doing stand-up comedy because she is extremely funny!
This is Marisa, she has a lot of good stories to tell!
She was born in AZ and has traveled the world! We would love for her to start doing stand-up comedy because she is extremely funny!

Valeria was one of the first people in the booth and it is safe to say she broke the barrier so that more could follow!
Valeria was one of the first people in the booth and it is safe to say she broke the barrier so that more could follow!

Meet Sara she was DJ'ing the whole night... She also runs things! Eventually though the funk in the van was too strong and even she had to join in song and dance!
Meet Sara she was DJ’ing the whole night… She also runs things!
Eventually though the funk in the van was too strong and even she had to join in song and dance!

Linda didn't come sing with us, not because she didn't want to but because she was to busy ripping! She did a second try Frontside Boardslide 270 right in front of eyes, said hi and had to keep it moving!
Linda didn’t come sing with us, not because she didn’t want to but because she was to busy ripping!
She did a second try Frontside Boardslide 270 right in front of my eyes, said hi and had to keep it moving!

Not much is known about these three, except that they knew all the lyrics to Cardi B's "I Like It" by heart. "Certified, you know I'm gang, gang, gang..."
Not much is known about these three, except that they knew all the lyrics to Cardi B’s “I Like It” by heart.
“Certified, you know I’m gang, gang, gang…”

You could actually follow and almost song to song update via our Instagram Stories!
You could actually follow and almost song to song update via our Instagram Stories!

Power! That is the word that comes to mind when we think of Lea Shairer. Scroll down to see what song was being performed at this exact moment.
Power! That is the word that comes to mind when we think of Lea Shairer.
Scroll down to see what song was being performed at this exact moment.

Rick Ross the boss!
Rick Ross the boss!

Errr day I'm Hustlin'...
Errr day I’m Hustlin’…

Even though it was IWD some longhaired males did manage to skip past security and into the booth....
Even though it was IWD some longhaired males did manage to skip past security and into the booth….

Meet Anna & Joanna both sick skaters, strong singers and now karaoke addicts!
Meet Anna & Joanna both sick skaters, strong singers and now karaoke addicts!

Last year Lea was present at the IWD event and we choose to believe this is a photo of her looking forward to next years event! A sincere THANK YOU to all the women & LGTBQ+ people that came to celebrate with us in the booth we are truly happy to have sung together with you.
Last year Lea was present at the IWD event and we choose to believe this is a photo of her looking forward to next years event!
A sincere THANK YOU to all the women & LGTBQ+ people that came to celebrate with us in the booth we are truly happy to have sung together with you.

A special thank you to Sara Parson-Texas for all the work you put in and Nike SB, Skatedeluxe & Skatehalle Berlin for putting on the event and making people skate and sing their hearts out!