Trucks and Fins is a huge present to the whole skate community - not just for the skating people, but also for shops, builders and schools. Super easy to use and can't believe how complete it is.
Pascal Lieleg aka Official Bowlshit
Always feels a bit awkward to admit it, just like if you met your wife on Tinder, but I got in touch with skateboarding in the early 2000s via a video game. Pretty much instantly after I started playing it, I wanted to try the real thing and grabbed the old shitty board from my cousin’s garage and went out on the street. Looking back the thing felt as if it basically had no bearings - I guess even if you pushed like Vallely you would not get anywhere with this board. Still I was hooked and got myself a slightly less shitty board from the local sports shop. From that point onwards it never stopped - other kids started skating around my area and quickly we had a little crew and collected signatures to convince the mayor of the little village I lived in to build a skatepark. As I never really got into flip tricks, I used to do a lot of oldschool stuff already back then - bonelesses, early grabs, you name it. In the early 2000s the hottest things were kickflip crossfoots and kickflip BS tailslides. I remember another skater complaining to the judges of a small contest I won when I was 14 that what I did was closer to fingerboarding than skateboarding. Since I moved to Hamburg in 2010 I've been 100% committed to bowl and transitions.
The picture as such is surely not the best I've taken but it is at my local spot in Hamburg (Fruchtallee Bowl) which is located right next to a retirement home. It’s not just the people living in the retirement home who are regularly passing by, watching us for 10 minutes and walking on, but also lots of other people. For me the picture just shows that skateboarding, even if you have no direct connection to it, is something that people are always impressed by and interested in.
The guy backside grabbing through the frame is David, who also painted the whole bowl with a sick piece of artwork last year (www.david-czinczoll.com).
Tough question as there are sooo many possibilities. I found a lot of inspiration in the earlier Blacklabel skate videos and always liked how Chet Childress and Jason Adams have a combination of heavy tricks mixed with lots of creative bullshit in between. So being out with these two guys in a flowpark would surely be a thing I'd love to do and photograph.
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Trucks and Fins is a huge present to the whole skate community - not just for the skating people, but also for shops, builders and schools. Super easy to use and can't believe how complete it is.
Pascal Lieleg aka Official Bowlshit
Trucks and Fins is a great resource for checking on local spots if you are traveling or planning a road trip! A one stop resource that is constantly updated with the newest projects as well as those bucket list locations worldwide. The intuitive UI features gps coordinates as well as useful information about shops nearby.
Architect Betonlandschaften
Trucks and Fins provide a great service. Its quick and easy to use and has such a vast amount of parks included, not just in the UK but worldwide. CANVAS Spaces support the cause and fully back what they are doing.
Our skate community has been crying out for a comprehensive guide to global skate spots. Trucks and Fins should be commended on their dedication to mapping the world's STOKE!
Maverick Skateparks
Trucks and Fins brings all of the world's skateparks to you all in one convenient place through their endless search for parks around the world. They have park locations, details, images, and more to help plan your next skate quest wherever that may take you. We appreciate their dedication and passion for skateboarding and the amazing gifts that skateparks and skate spots are.
Steve Zanco, Skatepark Respect
A big part of skateboarding is about finding Animal Chin - your spirit animal, or in other words: whatever gets you stoked. Could be the right people to roll with, or that special dream terrain. Trucks and Fins has all the best skate destinations in one place; a map of stoke in your hands.
Jan Kliewer, Yamato Living Ramps