Tomas “Koala” Scicchitano is one of the top dog Argentinos. His love for the street and street skateboarding is unrivaled, evidenced by the way that he skates and the spots he chooses. Koala never picks the easy route and is constantly learning new tricks. This Mar Del Plata native recently moved to Buenos Aires about a year ago and has been killing it with the crew since he arrived.
Fede Gonzalez and the boys from Quilmes are your classic definition of skate rats. They eat, breath and sleep skateboarding. They have been roaming Buenos Aires and the world for the last 10 or 15 years, filming, skating and living it up with gigantic smiles on their faces every step of the way. Not only do they all skate and most professionally, they also all play with cameras and shoot photos and make videos of their adventures.
City skateboarding is hard. It takes a special breed of skater to purposefully skate spots with shitty ground, cracks in the ground, huge security guards, or any of the other obstacles that might stand in the way. Joel and Ryan personify street skateboarding with an appetite for the weird, wild and photogenic. While some prefer perfect concrete, designated areas and obstacles that were meant to be skated, these two are prime examples of the guys that keep street skating where it started: IN THE STREETS!
Mathias Torres is quite possibly the most motivated skater in Chile. We filmed this part over the course of two months in the streets here in Santiago. The day he did the huge switch ollie, he said “Man I don’t want to skate today, I want to go home and drink tea and sit at my house”.
Maxi Schaible first appeared in our ISSUE No. 3 BANGKOK back in March 2013 – and stayed in close contact with us ever since. It is thanks to him that we produced Issue No. 7 in Stuttgart, Germany and he has been with us for the entire ride.
When we met Spencer we filmed a kickflip manual tre flip out three different times because he was unsatisfied with the way he was landing it.
Bryan Gutiérrez and Mario Wirnsberger share this full length section. Our old friend Mario from Austria came over to Costa Rica for a month to join us while we were filming in San José. We met up with Bryan and made it happen.
Shawn Ward is a Canadian mad man. He banged out this full part in only three weeks. It’s getting to be the hottest season of the year in Bangkok right now. With daily temperatures around 35-40°C, it can be a bit hard to be productive all the time but Shawn made it happen.
These four guys are some of the most motivated dudes you’ll find on the streets of Albuquerque. Monaco is a social worker and about to be the dad of an adopted child from Uganda. Anthony is a long-time friend from California that came out to get down on the trip and ended up killing it in two weeks.
Derek is a beast. He may have an Instagram for one of his dogs but he goes hard in the street. We filmed this whole part besides one or two clips in the six weeks that we were skating in ABQ.
Mario Wirnsberger is an Austrian legend. Originally from Kärnten, he has lived in Vienna for the last three years. He’s lived in Barcelona and a couple of other places in Austria but he feels the most home in Vienna.
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