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One love
You are holding a magazine that is a product of months of layout-designing, cover-scheming, and photo- dangling, all done in the explicit name of skateboarding. The idea behind this freely distributed, independent and non-profit magazine is all about representing as many layers of skateboarding as possible in Denmark. No matter if you are an artist, photographer, skater, creeper, builder, or business owner, this is a real piece for you and you could be part of it. An exposure of talent with no boundaries or restraints. A valid piece made to be read and kept. The tolerance for coreporate boredom in skating is small these days, and riders, photographers or video-makers of whatever level constantly think of learning something a little beyond their reach. As a skater’s eyes are marked to see and explore a city differently, we want you to contribute with your own photo, video or story. Help us create and pay tribute to the beauty and independence of skateboarding by sending your best work and getting the recognition it deserves. Don’t let it get forgotten in some remote hard drive or on a fb page gaining just empty praise via a thumbs up button. Connect with ‘’One love’’ and express your creativity inherent in skate culture. ‘’Let’s get together and feel all right.’’ Street Dome Haderslev Photo: Keke Leppälä
Bjørn Lillesøe Frontside 5-0 – Fælledparken
The Flying Bear
It was a nice spring day after a really shitty winter and I was at home bouncing between porn and video games, minding the ash on my smoke. Emilliano had called me earlier about a session at Faelledparken, very casually mentioning the cover shoot with Bjørn but I was in no state to move. Being half baked and injured means avoiding skateboarding at all costs, it’s just what’s best for myself and those around me. “It would be good if you were here for this …” he said as he hung up the phone. Ah fuck, man… what a low-blow: guilt tripping a man who’s injured and high. He was right though, it was the first proper spring day and I was burnt out baked, busting loads on my couch. Not exactly the most productive way to spend the day. The park was kind of comfortable by the time I got there. It was maybe around eight o´clock on a week night so not so many pubes were hanging round the g-spots but there were quite a few randoms lurking about and some more just walking through. Emiliano and the homies were chilling by the pool and Bjorn was just cruising around the snake run as I rolled up. “He wants to nose pick the picnic table in the deep end” “what?” “In the deep end … he wants to nose pick it.” “The picnic table?” “Yeah”
“How?” “As an extension” “Oh … ok” My mind couldn’t process what had been said to me. To be completely honest I can’t say it was 100% shock, substances were involved. But as my imagination began to run, I started to realize just how huge this really was. Those tables are big, dude … if that thing comes down on you, game over! As we started putting the table up, a little crowd had started to form to watch. Everyone was chill, and the park seemed silent. Starting from about mid way through the oververt, Bjorn would come tearing into the deep end and from there I would tuck my head back, hold the table and hope to hear the sound of cheers. After a few bails, he adjusted the table and it was golden. The sun was low and ducking out when he nailed it. I remember feeling the table push against me as he clicked his truck against the top of the table and the relieved hollers from the audience that had gathered. It makes me laugh when I think about it now. We do so much for what seems like so little but we do it because we love it. It gives us a perspective on the world, an understanding of how things work. If you do what you do because you love it then fuck the consequences. We do this because we love it and we love it because of you. This is for you, spread the love.
Interview
For this special first issue of the magazine I was looking for a unique kind of man, a low rider, someone who can throw a rad trick but at the same time hasn’t gotten what he deserves yet. The moment I went to shoot with this guy I instantly knew I couldn’t ask for anything better. Alexander Risvad is not the typical beer-guzzling-partying-hard kind of guy. And when it comes to skating … there is no spot that is too big, too grainy or too sketchy to get tested. At any spot it’s HAMMER TIME! Even if he lands the trick bolts but the photo is not perfect, he comes to you saying: ”I can just do it again”. With such determination it’s no surprise that the outcome from the missions with him are amazing. – Emiliano Meucci
Alexander Risvad
The knock out for E, what are you laying down? If I play a game of skate with Mikkel, I love to do impossible late flip … he just hates it, nollie inward heelflip revert, that’s one of my favorites too, feels so good to land down stairs. Where’d you learn most of that stuff, at the park or at your house or what? Yeah at parken, but I actually had a curb at home and a flat rail. So when I was younger I was skating it almost every day with my brother. When did you start skating? So contests this summer or what? This summer? Not that much … Just getting drunk? Haha yeah, always partying. So how many beers to make a good session? I actually don’t drink when I skate! For real? Like, when you’re on a serious mission or even just when you’re fuckin’ around? Sometimes I drink … one or two beers but that’s it. Are you at the parks a lot or always on street missions? I’m used to skating street, that’s what I like … for me that’s what skateboarding is, street mission always … I just like to try to find a new spot and do a new trick because it’s just the best feeling.
When I was 8 years old. And you stuck with ever since? Yep. That’s why you’re killin it … Yep but I had a injury in my knee two and a half years ago and then I started playing hockey and I almost quit skating in that period, yeah I didn’t skate for a half year and after been playing hockey actually my knee was perfect so I could skate again. What’s the exciting place you want to go to right now? China. Why china? Marble ledges! What got you hyped to go to china? The Nike video with all that China footage and Flip as well.
What’s your thing then?
Have you been out east before?
Definitely stairs, best feeling.
No, I’ve only stayed in Europe and been to The States with my parents.
What’s your go-to trick for game of skate on flat ground? On flat ground? … Frontside flips’ are always my favorite.
What are you plans for the future? Everyone always says they want to keep skating but what else do you have brewing?
Well I finished high school so I’m a free man. I planning to take 3 years off and figure out where I’m at. Who are your favorite local skaters to watch? Dannie Carlsen! 100%! He’s the best in Denmark I think … Who’s #2? Mads Christensen, that’s for sure. Music that gets you hyped to skate? Don’t listen to music when I skate. What do your parents think of your skating? They always support me, my dad and my mom used to go traveling with me to contests around Europe. They came with me to Amsterdam AM the first time I was there, and maybe the second time too I think … there’s a European championship in Basel, Switzerland, my mom came with me to that two or three times … my dad’s always been with me but now that I’m older he just stays home hehe … That’s great that they support you the whole way! Yeah my dad also paid for my first trip to the states. So do you get new boards everyday now? I don’t want to change my board every day, I hate changing my board, really, it sucks … but I get 10 to 12 boards each time we order and I think we order about every 2nd month but you know, sometimes I use a lot of boards sometimes I don’t … it’s always during the summer that I use a lot … I broke a board yesterday. How? I was doing nose slide nollie heelflip and then I broke my tail and the day before I was trying to hardflip down a fucking curb and I broke the tail and
Noseslide – Gentofte
Alexander Risvad
Frontside flip – Israels plads
Alexander Risvad
Backside 50-50 – Roskilde Photo: Jais Tellervo Hansen
the week before I broke the tail doing a hardflip on flat … Do you just always snap the tail or what? Yeah, I don’t know what the fuck is going on. The weirdest thing is I don’t break boards when I skate stairs, it’s only when I skate flatland … always. When I play games of skate with Mikkel and Andreas, it’s almost every single time I break a skateboard and it’s on nollie flip and nollie heel flip … I don’t know what the fuck is going on. You were in The States during the fall. Got any strange stories to tell? Actually, we had a strange episode, I think it was a couple of days after Baxxel and Bisse went back to Denmark. I came home one day and was parking the car in the garage. In front of the house we had 4 garages and the car I had could only fit in one. But when we got back, there was a Camaro in the garage and this guy came out and told me to park somewhere else because they had a sign over the garage saying that it belonged to a different apartment, “311” and we had some neighbors before that were staying in 311 but they had forgotten to take down the sign, so this guy thought that the garage was his. He was pretty tough though, he looked fucked up on something. There was like 10 people staying in that house when there’s only space for maybe 4 and they were smoking all time, had a different car every day, I didn’t know what they were doing, but I had an idea. I remember one day they had like 6 cars parked outside in the street and some of the guys ran over asking us “hey, you guys want to buy some drugs or something?” Another day though, they came over to tell us our ashtray was on fire, I had been outside having a cigarette and a piece of paper that was in the ash tray had caught fire after I left. It was something like two three days later they came and knocked on the door again and asked me “Hey, do you want some girls?” and I asked “Well, what do you mean?” “Ah well we have some girls inside our house and you can do some good shit with them if you just pay them”.
Alexander Risvad
Ollie – KBH Photo: Jais Tellervo Hansen
360 flip – Dantes plads Photo: Jais Tellervo Hansen
Alexander Risvad
What the fuck? Yeah they were up to some weird stuff. I woke up one day, I was sleeping on an air mattress by the front door and I just heard some screaming and loud noises coming from that apartment. I saw the house keeper just got there and found them all still in the apartment when they should’ve been gone 4 days earlier. So she’s yelling at them, you know, “I’m calling the police!” and the tough guys are just yelling back at her “You better not!” Were there any other weird people in your area? We had this homeless guy who would walk the same route each day at the same time, in the morning and in the afternoon. So on the last day we had like 14 skateboards we thrashed out, 8 pairs of shoes and lots of T-shirts and stuff we couldn’t bring back so we tried to give them to the homeless guy but he didn’t walk by. So we ended up hiding them by our trash cans so he would find them next time he came by. Oh and lots of liquor also hahaha all in all it was a really good time in LA Final comments or thoughts? Shit, I dunno what to say … keep skating … and watch Dannie!!!
Crooked grind – Bispebjerg hospital Photo: Jais Tellervo Hansen
Ruari Britee-steer Frontside stalefish – ROSKILDE
Simon Svendsen Nose grind – KBH
Martin Riisager Andersen Frontside powerslide – KBH
Thomas Roupe Frontside flip – Borups Alle
Thiago Alvarez Kickflip – SEB
Bryan Gutiérrez Wallie – Costa Rica Photo: Olman Torres
Chris Ørnebjerg Switch backside tailslide – Nørrebro
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Juan Diego Alvarado fs 50-50 – Costa Rica Photo: Olman Torres
Rune Glifberg Fs Tail grab FĂŚlledparken
Daniel Chacón Frontside noseslide transfer – Costa Rica Photo: Olman Torres
Chet Childress Frontside smith grind – Fælledparken Photo: Keke Leppälä
Maria Lima Frontside ollie – Amager strand Photo: Marie Dabbadie
Benjamin Rubæk Switch flip – KBH
Juan Issa Ollie – Downtown KBH
Bjørn Lillesøe and unknown skater Double trouble at Wonderland
f u Re s o c k i ad t m ng h e e l a pa r e s te g t r! e s
Bowl Days is pretty much a weekly adventure (lasting about a month or two) where you go to all those bowls you and your buddies always talk about but never actually go to. The same dudes are there for more or less every contest and the same super hyped mic man trying to get the crowd into it. Is it maybe a bit repetitive? In a way, yes but what it provides to the scene is super important. The mission behind Bowl Days is to help develop the bowl scene by bringing rippers from around the country together. Everyone gets a chance to mix it up and get hyped on some good skating and the youngsters get to walk away with some gear and a new perspective on their local bowl. Aside from that, the aim is also to put as much cash as possible into the pockets of skaters, while getting the little Copenhagen locals to new spots outside the capital. My first encounter with Bowl Days was two years ago when Bjørn Lillesøe tried to convince me to wake up at 7 in the morning on a Saturday to sit on a bus for four hours and drive to the middle of nowhere with a bunch of little kids strung out on energy drinks: I kindly refused. The following year, however, I saw a flyer for the same contest tour that looked so legit I couldn’t believe it to be the same, so I decided to investigate. If you’re not hiding in one of the toilets in the train on the way to a contest then you’re trying to survive one of the bus trips. We’d meet most mornings outside Royal at around 8 in the morning. Generally people were pretty hung over, with the odd exception of someone who actually woke up with the intention of winning and thus getting a chance at qualifying for the Roskilde Bowl Days contest, in the middle of Roskilde Festival. Either way, road trips can either be fucking awesome or just straight up torture, totally eye opening or painfully predictable.
Bowldays wonderland
Mathias Hall Laursen Transfer to backside lipslide at Wonderland
Lukas Olsen Frontside fastplant in Slagelse
Between the ripping, the slams, the utterly wasted and the completely baked, Wonderland contests are always a blast. The homefield advantage here is way more significant than in any other bowl I’ve ever been to, even the local presence represented more but I guess that’s to be expected from a bowl in the capital. As the kick off contest to the tour, I honestly thought the turn out would be bigger but as we went from bowl to bowl the turn outs were always quite random. The Frederecia contest was in the middle of a festival but no one really came except for a couple of MILFs and a few local skaters. The Helsingør contest was like a twisted nightmare. So many beautiful little spots in the park but the whole place infested with little scooter turds and practically no local rippers. The highlight from Helsingør was the miniramp session that went down after the contest when everyone deserted the park. Same goes for Slagelse actually, most memorable moment from that contest was dumpster diving for dinner on the walk home from the contest, townies staring at you like you’re some crazed homeless person. The trip home from anything is generally memorable though, or at the very least pleasurable. The trip home from the police station where you spent the night or the trip home from that random ass hot chick you picked up as the bar was closing, or maybe even the trip home from that park bench you woke up on a couple towns over from where you live. The Skørping bus ride
home was easily one of the top 5 highlights of the trips though I’m not at liberty to tell you what happened (don’t ask what the other four are, no one remembers). Basically, if whatever you are about to do is prefaced by a “no filming or photographing” speech, you’re probably in for a good time. Aside from that, everything was as you’d expect it: little kids strung out on energy drinks, and older dudes getting shit tanked (and some great skating). You have to understand something, after the second contest, things really started to blur together. It was always more or less the same faces, the same tricks and almost the same results. The only memorable bits were the variables tossed in at random intervals. The contests were fun because it was like a regular session with your friends except there’s mic man, some prizes and hot, desperate moms checking you out. Some of the tricks that went down were fucking nuts but I couldn’t tell you what they were because everything would blend together. With that being said, there’s not much else to say about the bowl days tour, really. If you have the opportunity to go then I think it’s totally worth while, especially since the cash prize has been getting bigger and bigger each year! The trips themselves seem to go pretty quick anyway: Load up the bus, adventure to the bowl, shred and be gone faster than a spliff at a party.
Simon Gravfort Bs boneless to fakie at Hullet
Diego Fiorese Frontside nosebluntslide at Streetdome
Words: Martin Riisager Andersen Photo: Keke Lepp채l채
“Streetdome shall not develop into a new Christiania,” said a highly fretful Haderslev City Council member before opening new skateboarding mecca in Southern Jylland. To find out how much real potential the place had and to see if the concerns were actually true (hopefully!), we got a small crew of people together and headed west for the grand opening. We managed to squeeze in my mother’s car: Diego with his Duracell energy, Summi with a case full of beer fuel, Cameraman Keke and Felix aka the young gun. We arrived Friday night and everything was closed so our plan to sleep inside the dome never happened. Luckily 2 local girls showed up at the spot and got charmed by our skateboarding aura and let us sleep in their nice and comfy apartment. Fresh in the morning we enjoyed an early breakfast of croissants and Summi’s blue Cols at the harbour sitting on the curbs. Just like every morning session in Fælledparken, we skated this concrete skate heaven with the exceptional presence of Mr. Nicky G, and his sound system to makes things even better. I slammed my second run and there was nothing else to do then, just drink with Summi and watch Diego and Felix be on fire and skate like madmen. Some hours later, the park was full of people. The pros arrived and put up a
show and the crowd loved it. I tell you there were so many spectators, which gave that really cramped atmosphere, so we started to explore the surroundings. We decided to go to the top of a big silo standing next to the park so we could see everything from a bird’s eye view. After sunset Diego proved again that he is a daredevil when he made the nollie heel flip on the rooftop. It must have been the highest trick that day; we were maybe 30 meters high. Later when the indoor demo took place, everyone was destroying the venue. Rune Glifberg was shredding, Alex Sorgente was doing giant Madonnas and flying around vert style but with no pads. Diego was killing it too. He did the transfer from lowend to the deep-end and a crooked grind fakie around one of the deepest bowl corners. I was super stoked and starting to feel the free redbull vodkas. There was a small crew shift change in the evening when Felix went home with the Globe team. He was replaced with my good friend Dannie C, who due to his knee injury couldn’t skate but was in party mode. We spent the after party enjoying live rock bands. It was super cool and I headbanged all night long. At 4’oclock in the morning we were destroyed from skating, drinking and partying and on top of that we were still missing a place to sleep. Dannie proposed a cabin outside the city but when we arrived
it looked like a deserted place with closed reception. The hope was gone and it looked like an outdoor sleepover when Diego somehow manage to open the door from inside and let us in so we could crash on the couches. How he found an open window or a mouse-hole I don’t know and I don’t care. It was a short slumber because after 4 hours we got kicked out by the owner and went back to the skatepark just in time to see the most beautiful sunrise. We huddled together in a spot overlooking the water and slept in the sun. On the way back to Copenhagen we had to visit another skatepark before going home. We found this little flowpark in the middle of Kolding and we spent another sunny day killing the spot until sundown. It was a great tour with days filled with skateboarding and meeting new friends and old friends at the new mecca. The park is amazing with all the lines that you can do. Furthermore, they have a dome with an inside bowl area, so you can skate all year round. All the hype and expectations toward Streetdome are justified because its one of the most creative and versatile designs I’ve tried so far. It is a new cultural beacon for street sport in Jylland and hopefully in the end it will inherit Christiania’s spirit of freedom and love. Thanks to everybody that we met and had a good time with!
Words and photos by Marie Dabbadie
The 4th of October, AFUK Skate and Create’s school and their students invited all skaters to come for a session; best tricks and to grab a wurst at the DIY spot that they built in Sydhavn Copenhagen within the last year. The guys finished the work and added a last-minute quarter and rail and some bumps knowing that it would be destroyed within the next days. They painted all the obstacles with some colorful drawings of fish, needle and flame designs. It was a great session divided in to Best Tricks on different obstacles. Every obstacle was fun to skate, even the very sketchy gap over the mark thing. Ville’s wallie on the sign was sick by the way. The kids ripped as always and Jonas Bünger aka Ginger dropped the truck, which was gnarly. It was great to see so many people coming to skate this spot. I think everybody was pretty hyped and giving everything for that last session. Thanks AFUK for the chance to create more with skateboarding for the kids and for giving us the opportunity to skate such good spots. AFUK SKATE is a school-based workshop, where skaters can go for a year and discover their own educational potential by just being a skater. We work with ramp-constructions in wood and concrete. We learn how to shoot photos and movies, how to teach other people how to skate and how to set up all kinds of skate-related events. Come and join us, if you are between 15 and 25 years old and dunno what to do with your life … we’ll find a way! Hinnerk Petersen, Creator and teacher of the production school workshop called AFUK SKATE at AFUK (Academy For Untammed Kreativity)
Sidewalk Skateshop´s Cali trip
If you can describe the trip in one word? Deepfried Hugo.
In March 2014 Sidewalk Skateshop did a little tour to California to experience a bit of the American Dream. We asked some of the participants a couple of random questions. Rasmus and Robert captured some of the moments on camera.
Rasmus. Was this your first time in The States? 2nd - Hella stoked. Best spot you skated? We had the best session just out the door from where we lived. Stairs and shit – in the sunset. Worst spot you skated? Haha ... The vans park – the young Gunz got kicked out for not wearing a helmet. Best hamburger you ate? FIVE GUYS. What’s the main difference between skaters in The States and skaters here in Denmark? Didn’t talk to that many skaters but I mean we had a few guys taking a day out the schedule just to show us around – that was bangin’! Big up to Tom Remillard, Tyler Hendley and Colin Bruce. Are the girls in Venice beach as good as the ones from Baywatch? Didn’t notice …
Was this your first time in the States? Yes it was my first time. Best spot you skated? Washington Street. Worst spot you skated? Worst spot was probably some bank / wallride spot on one of the last days. Best hamburger you ate? Best Hamburger was from Ace burgers. What’s the main difference between skaters in The States and skaters here in Denmark? The people in the states seem much more talk-able, than the guys in Denmark. Are the girls in Venice beach as good as the ones from Baywatch? Haven’t seen Baywatch, but they weren’t that good … If you can describe the trip in one word? Radical. Ville. Was this your first time in the States? No, I was there with my parents when I was 10. Best spot you skated? Hollywood high school. Worst spot you skated? Some skatepark. Best hamburger you ate? Five guys!!!!!! What’s the main difference between skaters in The
States and skaters here in Denmark? I don’t know we didn’t really skate with others. Are the girls in Venice beach as good as the ones from Baywatch? Some of them were pretty hot If you can describe the trip in one word? Fun. Thomas. Was your first time in the States? No, my first time was back in ‘95. Best spot you skated? Probably Channel Street, San Pedro. Worst spot you skated? I don’t really. Some of the public parks were pretty packed and had stupid rules like you have to wear helmets. Best hamburger you ate? Five Guys. What’s the main difference between skaters in The States and skaters here in Denmark? Nothing. We are all just human beings. Are the girls in Venice beach as good as the ones from Baywatch? Hell no. Venice is a freak show. The skatepark was full of stunt skaters who where trying to impress the skanks with finger flip bennihana’s. If you can describe the trip in one word? Awesome.
All Photos by Rasmus Bønnelykke and Robert Osis
Hugo Boserup Frontside feeble
Sidewalk Skateshop´s Cali trip
Sidewalk Skateshop´s Cali trip
Clockwise: Robert Osis frontside tailslide. Tobias Just frontside 180 ollie over a picknick table. Hugo Boserup frontside stalefish. Robert Osis backside wallride.
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TOBIAS JUST – BEANPLANT
Sam Cardelfe
How old are you and where are you from?
kinda skateable or a pile of dirt and gravel.
I’m 21 years old, from Spring Lake, New Jersey, living in Philadelphia.
If you could be at any concert at any point in time which one would you go to?
Did you start to skate or draw first? I’m pretty sure I started drawing first because I’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember. But a couple of years later, these two brothers who became some of my best friends, Joe and his brother Drew Kane, lived across the street from me. They were always skating out front on this curb outside my house. I eventually bought a skateboard and got the nerve to go say hello, and we became good friends and still are. How was it to grow up as a skateboarder in NJ? It was pretty rough but not that bad; you got used to it. Basically you drive 40 minutes to something that is either going to be a spot or not. It’s either
Hmmm, that’s a tough one. I’ve been really into G.G. Allin lately, and maybe that’s because the opportunity isn’t ever going to come up, because he’s dead. Or maybe the band Swearin’ they’re pretty awesome; I’m really into girl singers as of right now. Where can we see more of your work on the interwebz? I have a tumblr that I update with recent art work and which temporarily serves as a portfolio site. You can see my work there, or shoot me an email. I love meeting new people so feel free to say what’s up. samcardelfe@gmail.com http://samcardelfeart.tumblr.com/
“ You need to believe in it so much, you need to sacrifice so many things for it ... it’s not easy at all and for sure not for everyone ... skateboarding is cool and fun as long as you do it once in a while ... when you are out there, killing yourself, no matter whether you are skating, shooting or running a business, you need to put money on it, you need to lose, you need to waste time and fail ... that’s when you step up, that’s when you feel glad to be part of this world ... skateboarding doesn’t make sense!” – Mauro Caruso
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