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| Skateboarding is not just about a board on wheels |
| Tuesday, 19 August 2008 20:11 | ||||||||
 Skateboarding is not just about a board on wheels - naturally it is also about people and their lives and – last but not least – about those spots they can use to skate, improve their style and try new tricks.
Although there are many skate parks, ramps and pools, the most important aspect of skateboarding is street riding: walls, stairs, rails, marble squares and ramps create a natural environment for skateboarding.Unfortunately, not every city is as ideal for skaters as Barcelona with its even, perfectly smooth granite slabs, squares with walls, stairs and benches and a famous skateboarding spot known from films and newspapers around every corner. No wonder a huge number of professional skateboarders have decided to live there … However, there are countries where reality is regrettably far from the ideal – welcome to Poland, the country where skateboarders are forced to use uneven pavements, non-standard rails and roads full of potholes (the latter also applies to car drivers). Even if you have succeeded in finding a wall with stairs to perform a few good tricks and take interesting photographs, you will have to overcome uneven pavement slabs with holes to even get there. And so it goes on: if there is an ideal rail, a slide leads into gravel or a concrete ramp has a few holes which need to be filled, or a bevel needs to be bummed around to make it slippery. Frankly speaking, there are only few places good enough to practice because there always seem to be a problem. And that’s where Red Bull Build the Trick comes into play. The basic idea was to bring together two teams of the best Polish skateboarders, provide them with the necessary tools, cement, power generators, sheets of plywood and other equipment, and send them on a tour of three cities – Warsaw, Lodz and Poznan. The goal was to handle the less than ideal riding conditions, transform existing locations into skateboarding spots and use them for specific tricks: Build the Trick! The skateboarders used all the equipment provided to them and added a fair share of hard work and imagination to achieve an astonishing result. In Warsaw, they equipped several walls with even access runs and bevels suitable for grinding. The obstacles built in Warsaw are here to last and are perfect locations for other skateboard lovers. Unfortunately, the newly built walls in Łodz will not remain to be enjoyed by future generations. Only one day after leveling out the spot and attaching bevels, the whole obstacle disappeared – probably stolen by scrap traders. Sometimes, the skaters only had to fix a few boards to a plant pot to improve a skating spot, thus creating a great ramp on which Michał Juras managed to perform a beautiful kickflip. Other times, it was enough to smack a “patch“ of concrete into a hole in the run-in before a rail to provide Tomek Golawski with a perfect spot to show a whole series of tricks such as a fs boardslide, fs crook, 5-0, suski grind or tailslide. The “patch“ was sufficient to turn it into an ideal spot. One of the teams got so caught up in their work that they decided to lift up half the pavement next to the Warsaw Torwar Sports Hall, thus correcting the work of “experts“ who had laid it just a few years before. After the visit of the Red Bull Build the Trick team, the spot now is not only suitable for skateboarding, but also finally has an even pavement! After the work was finished, the builders themselves had a chance to try out the quality of their constructions in each location. Let’s hope that the local skateboarders will be able to enjoy these improved spots for many years to come! The Best Trick in Poznan turned out to be the one major achievement of the Red Bull Build the Trick: An ideal place was found under one of the bridges and a completely new obstacle was built from scratch: a wall finishing with a corner slide. It took the skaters almost two entire days to build the wall, using hollow tiles and bricks, special mortar and a lot of patience to wait for it to dry up. When the wall was finally ready, the bevels were adjusted, ground and eventually fixed to the construction. With the sensation of having done a good job, the team of builders went for lunch, expecting to return later to perform the Best Trick in the new spot. Unfortunately, lunch was spoilt by a telephone call from the agents who informed everybody that the newly built had already been knocked down. What a scandal! After arriving back at the spot, it became clear that the construction had already been seriously damaged and that it would be difficult to do anything about it. But who had done it and why? Nobody knows. After a short moment of despair, a decision was made: we have to build it again, we cannot give up. Thanks to Tomek Golawski, who rebuilt the whole wall almost by himself, it did happen, and the Red Bull Build the Trick Skateboard Tour finished with the Best Trick performed in the one spot the participants had entirely built by themselves. During the course of the tour, the skateboarders used approximately 250 kg of quick setting cement, 20 meters of bevel, more than 10 grinding discs and a vast number of brushes, trowels, anti-dust masks, gloves and other construction workers’ tools. Most importantly, however, Red Bull Build the Trick has shown that it only takes a little effort, a couple of ideas and a bit of rolling up your sleeves to create spots suitable for practicing new skateboard tricks without any major problems. Let’s hope that at least some of them will live to be used happily ever after!
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