RAJONTV GAME OF SKATE CHAMPIONSHIP 3 – ROUND 2/ GAME 20

We really want to believe that this championship raises the level of skateboarding in our country. Before these believes were mere speculations, but now, when we have two seasons behind our back and the third is approaching its climax, we can look back and see that YES, indeed, skaters have risen their bar in Latvia.

We probably need to make a separate post about this, but here is just one example to illustrate this point. The example is called: Nollie Back Side Heel. After the first season of game of skate, we made a statistic of tricks. We had to count all tricks in all games, and nollie bs heel was performed only 4 times through out the whole first season. Arguably the best flip trick around, nollie bs heel is not the hardest trick, rather the most stylish one(?). Anyway, we are always happy to see a nollie bs heel being pulled off in our games, and recently this trick had appeared quite often compared to previous years.

Enjoy the game between these two dope people.

How much in love with skateboarding are you?

Happy St. Valentines day everybody. On this day the whole world talks about love and romance, and we are not missing out. Skaters are, for the most part, shy about their feeling, and, on average, can only confess their love to one thing: skateboarding!

We often talk about how we love skateboarding and how it is the best thing in our lives, but if you could measure your love, what do you thing the true answer would be?

Good thing we live in the 21st century – a time when sophisticated internet technology has answers for everything. RajonTV’s psychologist team created this simple 10-question personality test that can determine how much in love with skateboarding you are!

How do you remember the day you stepped on a skateboard for the first time?

What is your top priority when looking for a job?

How soon on a first date do you reveal that you are skateboarder?

How do you feel when you don't skate for a week?

What do you use your mobile phone for?

Who do you usually invite to your birthday party?

What are your plans for the future?

How often do you skate?

Who is your favorite skater?

How long does your skate session usually last?

How much in love with skateboarding are you?
You are head over heels in love!

Your love for this wooden platform on wheels has no limits. Your life is dedicated to skateboarding and you are proud of that. The rest of the world sees you as an idiot, and who can blame them? Even if they are right, it is too late to change anything. You are in love and always will be. Good luck on your journey and never loose faith!
You have a soft spot for it

You really like skateboarding, and it is almost the biggest thing in your life. You skate often and almost every time it feels good. You are almost in love with it, but you are still not ready to take things to the next level. However, don't force it, listen to your heart.
You are just getting acquainted

It is to early to speak about love, as you are still in two minds about taking up skateboarding or not. The local rollerblade store ran out of longboards, so you were left to choose between a penny board and regular size skateboard. A classic story! The regular one had ABEC8 bearings, which was perfect for your adrenaline addiction. Although you were sure that the ROCES blades were staring at you, you bought the skateboard. Now you are trying to figure out what to do with the damn thing. You could have been flying around and enjoying the strapped plastic boots on your feet, but no. You are stuck trying to roll down a bank.
It seems like you have drifted apart

And we are not talking about Atlantic Drift, but it probably doesn't even ring a bell to you. Your relationship with skateboarding has been on the rocks for quite some time. Usually you claim tricks that are way out of your league. You end up not landing anything and end up pissed at the whole world. For you landing tricks is skateboarding, but there is definitely more to that.

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RAJONTV GAME OF SKATE CHAMPIONSHIP 3 – ROUND 2/ GAME 19

RajonTV tries to be maximum liberal and allow as many different people to take part in our events as possible. This principle often leads to unusual combinations in our Game of Skate rooster. This week we have Toms Leģers vs Edijs Aizstrauts, two dudes who wouldn’t even say hi to each other in the street, probably. They both are polar opposites of one another, with different styles and skateboarding values. Their skateboarding creates emotions; although, again, opposites ones.

Clockwise Skateshop: Daugavpils 2019

Words by Niklāvs Vētra and Arts Amoliņš

Niklāvs: A story long overdue, but finally, here it is – Clockwise skate shops trip to Daugavpils, a true hidden/not so hidden gem for skateboarding in Latvia. The weather was bleak and rainy. One day before our set date for the trip, and the team doesn’t know where or even if we are going somewhere. The main choices were between Daugavpils and Panevezys. Everything is just a blur. I am almost set on bailing on the trip, because of the indecisiveness and already planning a different trip to visit our fellow skater Sexyboi’ for his birthday party. It was Dubai themed and sounded dope. But NO! We had to go, all together, as a team, because Ingūna is moving to Berlin in a few days and we want her to be a part of the trip.

Alright fuck it! Let’s go! Let’s visit Daugavpils! The riders have some unfinished business there, it is not that far of a drive and we already have some people who could show us around. Let’s get it! One problem though… we don’t have a camera, there is no point on going without the coverage. Luckily for us few days ago Karlis Bogutsovs had posted that he is selling his camera, fisheye, handle and all. It is a no brainer! Our main man Arts cops it and we are all set.

Early morning, Arts picks up me, Ingūna and Fricis who is still a bit trippy from yesterday’s party. (I think Liepaja’s legendary skater Kalns was in town, so of course he had to go out a bit). Last thing is to pick up Kaspars in Ulbroka and we are ready to go. It was a long way, talking shit, trying to figure out how our new camera works, but we finally make it to Daugavpils. The weather still is tricky, it is dry, but the forecast tells that it still could rain. So we set up a plan, let’s warm up in the park for an hour, meet the locals and then hit the streets, the rest we will figure out later.

The park is not big but its shape and obstacles are quite fun. At the park we finally meet our wonderful host Aleksandra along with other D-team members like Kiril, Aleksandr and Deniss. So we pick up the squad and start rolling in the streets and goddamn, spot after spot after spot! I think we started with a small 6 or 7 stair handrail in front of a school, a fun spot to practice rails. On the way there we meet bunch of cats, that Ingūna is loving. I think, that was her main goal for the trip, pet as many cats as possible.

Next spot -> Downhill. Just around the corner from the first handrail spot there is already something else to do, this time it was a mellow downhill, with some curbs to skate up and down on, as well as a gap into a bank.

Arts: The downhill spot is quite fun and the whole team is trying something there, while I’m playing around with my new camera and trying to understand what is what. Fricis is trying a high speed line and I know that I don’t want to risk the new camera trying to go downhill with him so I handed the filming duty at this spot to Niklāvs. After 3 clips we are good to go to the next stop.

And as before the next spot is a minute away from the previous one. It is the train station spot which has appeared in some older Latvian skate videos. We check it out, but it is an immediate kick out from not so friendly security guard. Ok, whatever, there are plenty more spots in sight. We start heading down the main street and it is filled with marble ledges and curbs as well as some other little fun spots. We settle at a kicker spot and the team goes to work.

We get quite an ok amount of clips and move on to a spot that Fricis had checked earlier. This is a gnarly one, a gap over a rail to flat height of a decent double set. Both Fricis and Niklāvs go up and try the run up, while I set the camera along with Kaspars and Ingūna who are taking pictures and D-Pils team which is supporting us and hyping us up at every spot. It’s a battle but in the end both riders get their clips and we are good to go.

After grabbing something to eat and learning that movies in the cinema in Daugavpils are originally showed dubbed in Russian we move on to next spot. This is a mellow and easy one – just a couple of 2-3 stairs in a line with ledges on the side. Unfortunately after trying a flip down the first stairs Ingūna sprains her ankle and is done with skating for the rest of the trip. The guys do some silly lines and we decide that we can make it to one more spot before it is completely dark.

The spot we go to is pretty ridiculous. It is a super steep bank under a bridge with a sort of bank in the middle of it. No surprise that Fricis is the one that finds a way to skate this thing. The battle for the clip is not easy, but somehow Fricis does what he does best and rides the bank all the way down. We celebrate and chill at the spot for a while, do some cartwheels in the grass and take in what a day it has been.

After Alexandra gives us some tips where to camp we go looking for a place to put up the tents. At this point it is dark as shit and it complicates things a bit, but in the end we manage to find a spot, set up the tents and start a little fire to cook up some beans and sausages.

 

Day 2.

We wake up, we pack our stuff, go get some breakfast and on with the skating. While buying some food for dinner last night we found a spot right next to the grocery store so it is the first one we hit. It is marble ledge/planter with an option to pop out tricks if you lock in to full boardslide or something like that. I try to skate it, but my ankle is still hurting and all the driving and filming stuff is not making my legs feel any lighter. Kaspars warms up and does some tricks on the ledge and then Fricis does a really good one that blows everyone’s minds. When he was trying that the first tries I didn’t think it would work out, but it did very well.

After some ledge skating, our guide Alexandra takes us to a downhill track that is quite fresh, with great asphalt going through a forest.  We walk up to the top to the steepest hill and Kaspars goes first and eats shit pretty much immediately. He is fine, but I am bummed that I didn’t manage to get his bail on tape. Next up is Fricis and Niklāvs, they bomb the hill and we start thinking how to get some clips here. I take some steady shots of them going down the track and Fricis films Niklāvs while following him down the hill.

The next thing on our plan is the thing we came here for – the ditch! We had found the ditch spot together with Clockwise rider Krišjānis Kalvāns some years ago, but it was first skated in 2016 as can be seen in the video “Intense days”. Since we don’t know the exact location we tried to describe the place to Alexandra and trough some info from the other D-pils team riders we get an approximate location. We go there, and to our surprise, the lines of concrete that we cleaned 3 years ago are still there. The spot is as difficult as we remembered it to be. While the team is trying out the bank and thinking of possibilities, Fricis is thinking outside the box and has found a sort of “bowl” corner at the spot and starts cleaning it out. It all takes time so we understand that this is the last spot that we will skate today.

Everyone, except Ingūna, who is chilling and taking some photos, are trying their tricks but the spot is not easy.  I try to do a bigflip on the bank, but quickly understand that with the whole hurting ankle I won’t be able to do it. So I film some tricks for Kaspars on the bank and then Fricis and Niklavs go to war with the stall tricks on the upper edge of the bank. The corner Fricis dug up is supper fun to ride through and makes for a good line obstacle. After a long battle, bails, shouting and almost quitting, both riders get their tricks and we slowly start to pack and ride back to Riga with everyone thinking that we need to come back there next year.

On our way back we stop on the side of the road where Fricis had spotted a metal full pipe. We go to check it out and it turns out actually skateable. At one point the owner of the territory comes and asks what the hell are we doing, but after explaining that we are just trying to get some clips, he just leaves. Fricis rides the full pipe, we get some more photos and we go back to Riga.

In conclusion I can say that for a 2 day almost unplanned trip with a camera that we bought 10 hours before leaving, it was a productive trip and Daugavpils is definitely a place to visit and skate in. Thanks to Alexandra and D-Pils team for showing us around. We will return.

RAJONTV GAME OF SKATE CHAMPIONSHIP 3 – ROUND 2/ GAME 18

All these years of skating with Kaspars Gobiņš we were 100% sure that he was from Ulbroka. We basically learned about Ulbroka’s existence because of Kaspars. However in the recent Straight Forward podcast, Kaspars revealed that he comes from Vālodzes village, which is just near Ulbroka. For almost a decade we cluelessly called Kaspars the best skater of Ulbroka, a title that he never argued, and now it turns out we were wrong. Of course being the best among two other Ulbrokanians is more prestigious compared to being the best among a few domestic animals and locals for whom riding a bike is the closest to skateboarding they have ever gotten. Despite all the misunderstanding, and for sake of convenience, we will continue saying that Kaspars is from Ulbroka and will not strip him of his Best skater of Ulbroka title (sorry Shenga you almost had it) Because in the end of the day it is not important where you are from, but where you are at.

And Kaspars is in the second round of our championship and is playing a #younggun Kristers Kalniņš aka last man standing from Zamass crew. The game promises to be radical! Enjoy.

RAJONTV GAME OF SKATE CHAMPIONSHIP 3 – ROUND 2/ GAME 17

Round two starts with an explosive epic duel between two honorable skate rats. Boga and Fricis are well-known far and wide across our land and both carry true ethos of skateboarding, whatever the hell that means. We are proud to start the second round of our Game of Skate Championship with these two killas. Enjoy!

 

 

Planeta Patsanov

Growing up we obviously watched a lot of American videos and some European ones. However, being in close proximity to Russia we also got stocked by Russian videos. Compared to American and European untouchable levels of skating, Russian skateboarding seemed more relatable. Russian skaters were way better than us, but not as good as westerners. They skated in similar shitty settings and cursed the same way. We had our own heroes among Russian pros and religiously rewatched Imagiantion 1 and 2 as well as Absurd Theater which are definitely classics in Russian skateboarding. All these videos were made by Aleksandr Khudokon, a briliant VXer and editor.

It has been a while since Aleksandr made skate vids. After Absurd Theater he got into directing movies and documentaries (as far as we know). However, in the past few years there was a rumor that he got back into filming skateboarding, and was making a new video after more than a 10-years pause. That rumor seemed intriguing even here, we can only imagine how stocked were the Moscow locals who grew up watching his videos. The new piece was dubbed “Planeta Patsanov” (Dudes Planet) which seemed like a really kooky name. Only until we saw the first teaser it was clear that the video is not a weird joke.

And finally Planeta Patsanov hit the Internet screens via Thrasher player. A 44 minute dreamy and grimy trip into the Moscow streets. The cast includes familiar faces. Many skaters from the aforementioned classics are in this video too. They all matured and stepped up their game massively. The skating here is something else.

Compared to the previous videos of Khudokon, Planeta Patsanov is a bit darker. The video sends an anti-authority vibe on some kind of a different level than an average skate video. The images of security guards, cops, mixed with b-rolls of nature create a feeling of hopelessness for the world. The tone of music, which is mostly hip-hop, adds heavily to the feeling and atmosphere. The bottom line is that the video has an aura of its own and you can make whatever you want from it.

RAJONTV GAME OF SKATE CHAMPIONSHIP 3 – ROUND 1/ GAME 16

Rudolfs Henčels, the switch heel and fs 360 expert, has made into to the game of skate bracket by accident. He has taken the spot of Kristaps Judris, who is also an expert in various tricks, but was just too busy  to make it. Nauris Dollins on the other hand has been in the brackets from the very start, and has patiently waited for his turn to show his tricks. Nauris didn’t mind and accepted his new opponent without hesitation. With nasty shit like ss varial flip and Ķilis up your sleeves, you wouldn’t hesitate either.

Enjoy the game! It is the last game of the first round! We are half way through the championship!

 

SKATE BALTICA 2020

Photos by Nauris Dollins/ Edvard Gaba

Last Saturday 18th of January we attempted to combine some of our favorite cultural things in skateboarding into one day event. We also aimed at involving skaters from all Baltic states, hence the name Skate Baltica.

The program included: a discussion on Baltic skateboarding, a photo exhibition, video presentations, RajonTV Skate awards, and a DJ party.

Discussion on Baltic Skateboarding

The day started at 12:00, which is early for a skateboarder’s Saturday. The first event was a discussion on Baltic skateboarding over the Spot center. As we never tried anything like that before, it was a bit scary. Is there a lot to talk about? Will it be interesting at all? Nevertheless, the discussion turned out way better than we expected.

Edvard Gaba – chairman, Arts Amoliņš – Clockwise skateshop, Siom Sonkinas – Commune DIY, Justinas Ivoška – president of Lithuanian Skateboarding federation, Liidia Maier – Tartu Skateboard school

The main overall topic was the development of skateboarding in the Baltics. We started by defining what is a developed skate scene to every member of the panel, and from that we went into more details regarding their work and experience within their scenes.

It was great to see some next gen representatives in there

It was quite interesting to see how the whole thing unfolded. At first we had huge doubts about this endeavor, but it was soon obvious that there are a lot of people willing to speak up and more topics to address. The biggest complaint everyone had about the talk was that it was too short. We sat for two hours, and it wasn’t enough. A great lesson for all of us that events like these are needed and that skaters have ideas and opinions they want to express. There is always a room for improvement, but before you get there you need to start with something. This discussion was a micro step forward a stronger skateboarding community in the Baltics and we hope that this trend will continue.

To give you a better sense of what was the discussion like, here is an audio extract from the second part of the talk. We apologize for bad quality!

Photo Exhibition/ Video Screening

After we the discussion and a little skate session at the Spot center we headed to KKC (Kaņepes Kulturas Centers) where the photo exhibition was waiting for everybody.

Guests observing photos of Rainer Kaur and Andres Kõljalg
Riga scene veterans Marcis Ruiķis and Egons Avots. Marics also put out some of his finest photos

In total we had six photographers showcase their work. Nauris Dollins, Artūrs Bogdanovičs, and Marcis Ruiķis from Latvia. Andres Kõljalg, Rainer Kaur and Liidia Maier from Estonia. The exhibition was installed for one evening, so you had to observe everything carefully. The way printed photos look compared to online instagram stuff is like day and night. The exhibition reminded us the value of print and real physical copies.

Liidia Maier and Nauris Dollin. Two awesome Baltic photographers.

Siom observing Liidia Maier’s photos

Fricis and company.

Fricis made a poster with VEF DIY story and a donation box. There is a rumor that VEF DIY might get torn down. So Fricis wants to use the donations to clean and renovate the spot to show that skaters care and need that place. Check the VEF DIY insta and make sure to donate. The donation box is now at Boards.lv shop, and then it will travel to the Spot Center and later to Clockwise.

More guests enjoying the day. Eneli, Siim, Kris and Julia came all the way from Tallinn and Tartu.

KKC being an amazing place has everything one’s heart can desire. It just took five steps for all the guests to get in the small cozy cinema literally the next door from the exhibition. That was the time to start the next step of Skate Baltica – video screenings.

Arturs Nesaule showed his solo part and Roberts Krums is big fan of skate videos. These two made a good match.
Some more front row shenanigans.

All Baltic states shared a glimpse of their scene: Fully Ghetto Gang from Vilnius presented their Promo video, Riga’s Clockwise skateshop showed their trip video to Daugavpils (article on that coming soon), Arturs Nesaule presented his first street part, and RajonTV also screened a short video called Doodle. However, the biggest premiere of the evening was Siim Sild’s movie called KAIFUUN. Tallinn boys filmed through out the whole year and put together a really good piece. KAIFUUN is going online some time after screening in Tallinn.

The cinema at KKC is so small and a lot of people didn’t make it in, but don’t worry all videos are obviously going online soon. However, the tiny space of the cinema creates a close friendly atmosphere. Everybody is sitting shoulder to shoulder, you can talk easily, exchange laughs and cheers for good skating.  And this is the best part of the video premieres. KKC cinema staff is always happy to host skate videos, as the excitement of the crowd is unmatchable.

RajonTV Awards

While the crowd was still warmed up from all the yelling and screaming in the cinema, we started RajonTV awards ceremony. The goal was to look back at 2019 and give out couple of trophies to people who excited us the whole year. In some cases the choices were obvious. In other cases, we had to think more and even debate. We hope everybody understands that this whole thing was completely new for us and it might not have been perfect. However, it is just the start of a great tradition that we will repeat again. Hopefully next year we will be able to give out more awards to more Baltic rippers. 

Here are the results:

Trick of the YEAH: Raul Urberg – Fakie flip Viru 9
Park Rat award: Andris Kaldvee
Photographer of the year: Nauris Dollins
Rookie of the year: Kernius Trakymas
Skater of the year: Inguna Skujiņa
Skater of the year: Fricis Štrauss

Fricis giving his SOTY speech – “Keep it skating”

Thank you everybody for coming and keeping skateboarding alive. We definitely need more events where we can get together and celebrate skateboarding culture.

HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

 

 

WHO WILL GET BALTIC SOTY?

The results of the vote are in. Thank you everybody for voting and sharing. We are happy to see your picks, and we are ready to take a closer look at your favorites. The decision who gets the trophy will be made by a RajonTV commission consisting of associates from all Baltic countries. Results will be announced on Saturday during Skate Baltica at Kaņepes Kulturas Centrs.

And here are TOP 5 riders according to the internet vote with some info from the homies and from them selves.

Siim Sild

@koeraelu

I know Siim since 2004. That year winter was dry and we skated flat ground. Since those days I can say that Siim was always giving 100 and extra 1% every skate session…

Last 2-3 years was a real roller coaster for me. Family issues and couldn’t handle them. Skateboarding was kinda bothering my mind and I wanted to quit. Then I spoke with Siim and he helped to get my mind back on track and my feet back on board. Since that day he is a brother, but from a different mother.

But let’s stop talking emotional and let me put a few reason why Siim Sild is 2019 Baltic’s SOTY. He is a leader. I am blessed to skate with him and witness his will and power. You just want to follow him and skate on a same level. Never stops learning. Always on a grind to get a new trick and again. I saw and filmed many of them. Very active. I mean he is always down for a skate session and as I said above: he gives 100 and that extra 1% every skate session. This motivates, this gives energy and most importantly a skateboarder like Siim Sild drives skateboarding… you can’t drive a car without a driver. Make sure he is the best driver. – Aleksandr Hablov

Siim in R.USH HOUR project. Siim’s Koidu Plaza edit. Siim was also often seen in our monthly top 10 edits. Besides skating, Siim is also involved in Loigu indoor park crew, and can be seen filming his friends in the streets with a VX. Siim’s new edit KAIFUUN is going to premiere this Saturday during Skate Baltica, so come over meet the man and watch his work. -rajontv

Fricis Štrauss

@fricis

If you don’t know who Fricis Štrauss is then you probably don’t skate and don’t live in Europe. Which is sad… 2019 has been a busy year even for the laziest people like me, but for Fricis it’s been just like every other year – super busy like he said himself – “Just another year gone and thousands of projects done”.

Fricis is more or less the most dedicated skateboarding thinking person ever, dude got his first job of the year as a pool shaper, of course to build some new grounds for the youth and get some money to travel and also to get knowledge of how the concrete works. He has used this knowledge in Latvia by creating DIY spots. Lads at the BARAX are stocked on Fricis’ concrete creations. Fricis also fixed up some old and crusty spots in other parts of Europe.

He also helps at a skate school, and I bet that he is the best mentor of showing how to have fun, use your imagination and of course enjoy skateboarding with your pals. He helps RajonTV too with organization of Around The Block event which became an annual thing in Riga.

Dude had a the sickest video part in one of the best (probably the best) videos in Baltics in 2019 (VISS SAFE). and that was just the tip of the dick (iceberg). Fricis also had the opening part in “Pis Taisnāk” video, which was also inspirational. I witnessed and filmed most of the tricks in that project. And trust me dude is passioned about his shit! Just check the speed, check the technique, the slams he takes. He’s a unit. A TANK!

And that’s not it! He’s been traveling a lot too. Been to Spain where he met up with the homies and of course got some footy there thats probably gonna be used for Klavs’ personal project or something. He has been Sweden. Been filming some bits and bobs with his crew over there.  Hopefully a part is coming out this year. Been in Berlin. Crazy. His connection got him a free ticket just to get him there and get some clips for a project… damn. Can’t wait to see all of this. As we all know his unpredictable in and out of skateboarding.

Lets leave it at that…there’s a lot more to add, but I guess you get the picture. Fricis being Fricis! – Roberts Krums

Rokas Ignotas

@rokiskas

So I spent lot of time this year with Rokas, because we’re team mates on Boardsports. He’s riding for Vans at House of Marster too. Rokas got on Jart skateboards flow team at the end of 2019 too. He’s getting packages straight from Jart team manager. Kind a big move! He’s on of two Lithuanians who qualified to Simple Session’20. He won TO MANY various contests around Lithuania last year. As well as he was shredding Baltics Skateboarding League finals in Riga & he won Aizkraukle park opening event. He’s a total park shredder, but he collected some crazy street footy last summer for the upcoming Boardsports movie. – Einius Žiūkas

Niklāvs Vetra

@niklavsvetra

Niklāvs Vētra a man that needs no introduction. Combining huge pop, gnarly and creative tricks and style, he has made quite a name for himself in the Baltic skateboarding scene. He got a chance to showcase his skills in 2019 video “Viss Safe” as well as completely killing it with Clockwise Skateshop crew in the team tour video “Daugavpils 19” and not even mentioning the competition scene – Niklāvs had 2019 in the bag! – Arts Amoliņš

Ma G, brat Niklavs Vetra had a productive year! Spicily mixed studies, work with a little falafel beside them and a banging skate performance on top of it. Won few contests around the Baltics, filmed here and there, showed tricks in “Viss Safe”, Clockwise Daugavpils video, wrestled against the heavyweight flatground champ MIKS (master level of any game of skate), put him 3 letters, ironically, ended the whole RajonTV second GOS tournament 3rd. Currently trying not to eat the Earth, fitnessing, 720 shoviting to infinity and BEYONCÈ. Ankt toch var! – Arturs Nesaule

Romario Siimer

@romariosiimer

He’s very eazygoing, chill and funny guy! Always good times only when he’s around. – Meelis Erm

Romario is the kinda guy you can have your car break down in the middle of the night, in Australia, with no phone reception and just laugh about it because with him you know everything will work out and you’ll have fun while it does. He’s the most positive guy ever.

When it comes to skateboarding Rommi is competitive and his dream trick is probably bs 360 flip lipslide nollie tre out or something. Skating with him is even more fun than having your car break down. You can always count on him being down for a skate sesh. I had a few weekend trips to Brisbane with him and I can tell you Romario is a guy you want to have on a skate trip with you. No worries for life!

A perfect skate session includes Romario’s bluetooth speaker, a nice summer evening and a few beers. I can’t wait for the next one. Keep on keeping on Rommi!!! You are the best! – Raul Urberg

My 2019 started in Australia with Filipinos but that’s another story. Half of 2019 I spent in Australia with a lot of skating with Brisbane’s local skatecrew, unforgettable times. A lot of epic spots and skaters. We did some street filming during weekends as well.

In June I landed to Zyrich to meet up my friend who showed me local spots and parks. It was 12 days nonstop skating for me. In mid summer I finally made it to Estonia. My arrival was rapidly followed by King of Tallinn which our team 42010 won. Next skate contest was Sindi cup where I have never competed. Managed to win that too. I had the opportunity to participate in the European championship in Nizhny Novgorod. Felt blessed to be there since I got like 1 week notice, super good times!

Vilnius got new indoor skatepark and they had a competition there as well. I got second place there. I think with that the year was pretty much over. I’d like to thank everyone who made it awesome, legends! – Romario Siimer