LATVIAN SKATE NETWORK
A cool pipe thing for the creative minds. Located next to a shopping center and is pretty busy. Despite that there was no kickout. Not much has been done there but the spot has potential. Smooth and skatable.
Address: Nīcgales iela 2, Minska TC
If you want to predend that you are a badass New York city skater that skates real rough street spots, then Blue Box is your spot. It is a mysterious metal box on some parking lot with a disgusting, yet skatable, flatground. Everybody hates this place, but it is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Riga center spots. That is probably why every Go Skateboarding day event ends up here.
Address – Perses iela 2A
This place has the potential to be the best spot in town. It has stairs, ledges, gaps, and a lot of space. The only down side is that is covered with the shittiest cobble stone which makes it way too unpleasant to skate.
Back in the day (early 2000s) people used to skate here a lot and were happy to have it. In late 2000s everyone skated the asphalt flat in the park next to the spot. Nowadays the spot is skated only when people try to film something. Still a good spot with a lot of options to be creative. Rare to almost no kickouts.
July bangers
Hope you all are having the time of your lives this summer. As for Riga Barax community days are spent enjoying the spot while it is still there. According to rumors it is the last summer when Barax is around. Business people in suits plan to build a serious office building on that territory. All we can do is hope they will fail.
Straight forward podcast’s latest episode is with the notorious Edgars Berziņš. The talk is 18+.
Vans Latvian skate league had a third event in Ventspils. They had some Swedish rippers over which was pretty cool. The last 4th event is planned for September.
Our recent posts were mostly centered around Estonia. Mestakooli DIY, Siim Sild’s Koidu edit, Viljandi BASH and now this video of Rain Linderman crushing it. We are stocked on everything that goes down in the Baltics, it is just that recent events were mostly connected to Estonia. Well, this clip is a must see. With a brief cameo from Tubin and Nils-Erik, it is mostly Rain’s part and he goes fast here doing clean tricks on what presumably are Tallinn spots. Not sure who filmed it, nor how old are those clips. We will update the info when we will have time to investigate, right now just watch and enjoy.
Dancing in the rain
Siim Sild destroying Tallinn's Koidu plaza
First month of summer is gone.
A glimpse of Tallinn's Metsakooli DIY