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The DIY Brussels skatepark creating a community against the odds

For skaters, by skaters — Looking to bring his community together and protect them from the cold, Youssef Abaoud and his friends hand built the Byrrrh – Brussel's first official DIY indoor skate park to open in over a decade.

  • Skate
  • Biju Belinky

Welcome to Lagos: Africa’s new skate hotspot

Straight outta Las Gidi — Red Bull photographer Tyrone Bradley captures an emerging scene in Lagos, Nigeria which is blowing up thanks to local crew Wafflesncream.

  • Skate
  • Alex King

The Travel Diary: Skating the streets of Panama City

What you see along the way — Photographer Rafael Gonzalez hits the streets of Central America's Panama City, exploring the capital's beautiful backdrop with the skateboarders who call the place their home.

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  • Rafael Gonzalez

Meeting the skaters at one of New York's most loved skate parks

It's under threat — The Astoria Skate Plaza in Queens, New York, is a sanctuary for skaters in a rapidly changing city. But just like Brooklyn Banks before it, rampant gentrification now threatens to rip a community from its home.

  • Skate
  • Josh Fray

How a drab shopping centre became a haven for London's skaters

The real olympic legacy — London is dying. Where culture and community once blossomed, now private security guards and Jamie's Italians now reign supreme. But in one drab East London shopping centre, a true skate community spirit lives on.

  • Skate
  • Tom Hale

A skate legend too radical for the industry

This is Clyde Singleton — Clyde Singleton has been a transgressive force in skateboarding history – a tell-it-like-it-is character who has zero time for bullshit. Two decades after making his dream a reality by turning pro, he's still committed to pulling off the unexpected. This is a snapshot of his life.

  • Skate
  • Clyde Singleton

Pro-skater Gilbert Crockett on creativity, careers and condiments

Huck x Vans — With a new Vans shoe and a video on the way, pro-skater Gilbert Crockett is set to have one hell of a 2017.

  • Skate
  • Carl Anka

Shredding South California’s abandoned pools

Party in the Back — Photographer and skater Tino Razo documents and shreds abandoned backyard pools across Southern California in Party in the Back, embodying care-free and youthful expression without even trying.

  • Skate
  • Paden Vaughan

The teenager who beat the blues with a DIY skate paradise

Building a way out of boredom — In the frozen heartland of Finland, Jaakko Saavalainen’s do-it-yourself attitude proves that anywhere can become a skate utopia – as long as you’re willing to put in the work.

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  • Juha Solanterä

The young skater shredding through the Stockholm snow

Homegrown in Stockholm — Watch Swedish skater David Stenström shed a light on his life on and off the board in the first instalment of Homegrown, a new film series from Converse.

  • Skate
  • Paden Vaughan

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