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
My early days involve the punk years, real original punk in England- 1977. I was an early skateboard street urchin, a teenager of the city in Plymouth. I was out most nights and skateboarding in the precinct and on the flat asphalt tarmac expanse of Plymouth Hoe on a Sunday where we had an early primitive wooden transportable quarter pipe that we would hit for hours. Our favourite wide subway was next to Woods ( an original punk club) I was too young to go in but some nights we were skating around outside and we could hear the music streaming from the open windows. The Sex Pistols were getting themselves banned everywhere but they played Woods. We also heard Billy Idol and Generation X and a year later the sounds of Sting and The Police wafted down from the club. It was a good time growing up but by late 1978 the attention turned to our new skatepark across the city in Central Park.
This picture is of young George O’Neil and taken in March 2020 at Mount Hawke it is a backside ollie 360 rotation. I really like it because at the time I had just finished a community camera course -night school and while I was there in the winter we took pics of lemons plopping into a fishbowl and silhouettes through glass and boring stuff like that. Although the course helped me to find my way around a camera I was itching to photograph skateboarding. George is a cool kid and was a willing subject, most skateboarders like having their photos taken so I was soon over my shyness of asking. So there I was with my newly acquired Nikon strapped to a 8mm fisheye and a hand held speedlight flash on a coil lead, just figuring it all out. I was stoked with the results and thought…Hell yes I can do this. I was hooked and addicted in the very same moment. I learned a lot in my first few months and spent more time behind the camera than on my board. I never looked back.
If I had a time machine I would like to go back to 1977 and photograph Tony Alva , Jay Adams and their crew in a perfect backyard pool. I love the iconic images of 70’s skateboarding and the history we all should respect. I know this is a pipe dream so I would settle for a good skatepark pool with that perfect aesthetic and riders who work with the photographer together to get the killer shots.
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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
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
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.