Grave Skateboards and Nerd Skate Shop

LA CAVERNE - Marseille DIY skate park 13/07/08 / u Sk8 stuff, Sk8 stuff

History A cavern… A dirty dark and isolated hole, in wich you enter wondering what you will find at the very end of it… and you often have to search the entrance. We’d been talking about pools, walls and rad spots for years, and it’s a fact, we almost don’t have any ride-able pools around here… So, as Marseille locals, we were riding the bowl of course, the “holenight bowl” too, and the 12’ vert ramp a friend owns in his backyard, but we were wanting something else, something fucking gnarly, something of our own, something that would fit with our desire for rad trannies… So, as we were talking about the lack of rad spots, we decided to build a wall ride somewhere. We’ve been looking for an indoor place to do it for months so we could skate when it rains, but it wasn’t working. One day, Nours, a friend who skates and spray paints, tells us about old abandoned warehouses where he goes to paint. The warehouses are lost in the suburbs of Marseille, completely forlorn and devastated. We discovered that a lot of painters know the place, they come from all over the country to paint here, so some painting are just amazing. They have huge walls, so sometimes they are more than 50 painters there, with music, dogs, booze and related stuff… They spend there week-end chilling and painting. That’s kind of cool. The other thing that is rad, is that these warehouses are an ancient cement blocks factory, it used to be a quarry. All the materials are on site, dirt, stones, sand, metal things and shit that can be used to help the building. But the main problem is that these warehouses are on a private property and there is a fucking barrier, so you have to walk to the warehouse, which is fucked up when you have to carry cement bags and tools to work. We use motorbikes. One of the warehouse still has a roof. The floor was covered by at least a foot of shit, like rusted spray cans, stones, sand, rusted parts of burnt cars, burnt bikes, glass, wood, whatever… Mayhem Land !! When we cleaned a bit we saw that under that shit, the floor was perfectly smooth and flat. It was the Grail! We decided it would be there. The spot had two starts that didn’t work, because we didn’t give it enough energy and involvement. Then Pontus Alv did this amazing video “The strongest of the strange”… This video message was like “Hey dudes, no lame speeches, take a trowel and go for it!”. ............ nastavak price na
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