Video: Skating through a waterpark on lockdown
- Text by HUCK HQ
Finding new and exciting places to skate is always a struggle, but it’s all part of the game for die-hard skateboarders. From old Spanish churches to abandoned railways, the world can be your skatepark if you only look hard enough.
So when pro-skaters Alessandro Sorgente, Milton Martinez and Jan Hoffmann got invited to a shut down waterpark in Dubai to throw down some tricks, they were pretty quick to take up the offer.
Carving out 17 beachfront hectares of waterscape at Aquaventure Waterpark at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, this trio of intrepid skateboarders took to the temporarily dry slopes of Atlantis to make some concrete waves – quarter pipes on the water pipes.
Check out the video above.
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