Archive for the ‘Skateboard & Mountain Board’ Category
In the skateboarding world, Atlanta has always been known for its working class skate scene. The amount of spots inside the city perimeter are very limited, so with a little elbow grease and a bit of cash, the skate community took it to themselves to create the DIY spot called the Foundation. No epic gaps, massive ledges, or perfectly manicured skate park features, just some friends with concrete and the desire to skate. This is skateboarding at it’s core.
In Volume 23 of Stereophonic Sound we go “Diggin in the Crates” with an excerpt from Stereo’s 2008 Promo video “Agency Field Report” with Chris “Dune” Pastras, Clint Peterson, Carl Shipman & Matt Rodriguez. Next we follow Yoshi Tanenbaum to PA to skate the massive compound at Woodward.
It’s hard to visit places that haven’t been visited before in skateboarding, so why bother and go on a quest to look for the unknown, without even knowing if you will run into something skateable? Don’t get me wrong, I’m always down for a little adventure to the underworld, but everything is just a lot smoother when the path has been paved before. So with the Damn Am taking place at Volcom each spring in California, and having some of the European riders out there, the decision was easy to just add a couple of weeks of skateboarding to it. The promised land is big enough to offer a lot of different options.
So after doing a little research and some back and forth with the Volcom US team captains, the decision was made to start of our journey towards La Vegas, and make a giant loop downwards to Albuquerque, swing by the Mexican border and back up to L.A. through Arizona. It was still early spring, so that hot pocket of the States would still be bareable. We got ourselves a big ass van, fitted it with some young and older talent, stashed the trunk full of bags, a generator and boards and off we went.
Enjoy this edit made by Yves Marchon of our adventures in the US with Axel Cruysbergs, Eniz Fazliov, Daan van der Linden, Harry Lintell, Alain Goikoetxea and some extra Volcom-guests.