Adidas Skateboarding recently introduced the new Lucas Premiere ADV. As Lucas is injured pretty bad at the moment, he decided to invite the whole European Adidas riders to his hometown Toulouse to have a good time, which then resulted in some impressive skateboarding as well. We wish Lucas a quick recovery!
This summer PLACE and adidas Skateboarding proudly present the international #3stripesatnight video contest. So set your alarm clock, get out your camera light and go cruise the empty night streets. All you need to do to enter this contest is to produce a clip at night, your clip can be 30 seconds long (maximum) and can consist of either lines, single tricks and some other nightly scenes. The night time is the right time, so try to create and capture the atmosphere of the night. Upload the video to your Instagram account, using #3stripesatnight while also tagging @placemag and @adidasskateboarding. That’s it – all entries get the chance to win amazing prices. We’ll choose the 3 winners and repost your video in the PLACE Instagram channel.
head over to our Instagram channel to compete!
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This summer PLACE and adidas Skateboarding proudly present the international #3stripesatnight video contest. So set your alarm clock, get out your camera light and go cruise the empty night streets. All you need to do to enter this contest is to produce a clip at night, your clip can be 30 seconds long (maximum) and can consist of either lines, single tricks and some other nightly scenes. The night time is the right time, so try to create and capture the atmosphere of the night. Upload the video to your Instagram account, using #3stripesatnight while also tagging @placemag and @adidasskateboarding. That’s it – all entries get the chance to win amazing prices. We’ll choose the 3 winners and repost your video in the PLACE Instagram channel.
head over to our Instagram channel to compete!
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Part 4: Tjark Thielker
This week we proudly announce Marcus J. Skowron as our first winner of the #3stripesatnight video contest supported by PLACE and adidas Skateboarding. The next winner will be picked by Lem Villemin himself after the three upcoming adidas team rider clips! So go out there and use your chance to win amazing prices!
For more info click here.
This summer PLACE and adidas Skateboarding proudly present the international #3stripesatnight video contest. So set your alarm clock, get out your camera light and go cruise the empty night streets. All you need to do to enter this contest is to produce a clip at night, your clip can be 30 seconds long (maximum) and can consist of either lines, single tricks and some other nightly scenes. The night time is the right time, so try to create and capture the atmosphere of the night. Upload the video to your Instagram account, using #3stripesatnight while also tagging @placemag and @adidasskateboarding That’s it – all entries get the chance to win amazing prices. We’ll choose the 3 winners and repost your video in the PLACE Instagram channel.
Part 3: Patrick Zentgraf
This summer PLACE and adidas Skateboarding proudly present the international #3stripesatnight video contest. So set your alarm clock, get out your camera light and go cruise the empty night streets. All you need to do to enter this contest is to produce a clip at night, your clip can be 30 seconds long (maximum) and can consist of either lines, single tricks and some other nightly scenes. The night time is the right time, so try to create and capture the atmosphere of the night. Upload the video to your Instagram account, using #3stripesatnight while also tagging @placemag and @adidasskateboarding That’s it – all entries get the chance to win amazing prices. We’ll choose the 3 winners and repost your video in the PLACE Instagram channel.
Part 2: Daniel Ledermann
adidas is a company with German roots, so it is only logical that the German guys made their own clip for the Berlin Away Days premiere. This clip definitely has its highlights, with people like Sandro performing a very nice tech-gnar move. All in all Tjark Thielker, Paddy Zentgraf, Valeri Rosomako, Kai Hillebrand, Phil Anderson and some new talent all come through!
This summer PLACE and adidas Skateboarding proudly present the international #3stripesatnight video contest. So set your alarm clock, get out your camera light and go cruise the empty night streets. All you need to do to enter this contest is to produce a clip at night, your clip can be 30 seconds long (maximum) and can consist of either lines, single tricks and some other nightly scenes. The night time is the right time, so try to create and capture the atmosphere of the night. Upload the video to your Instagram account, using #3stripesatnight while also tagging @placemag and @adidasskateboarding That’s it – all entries get the chance to win amazing prices. We’ll choose the 3 winners and repost your video in the PLACE Instagram channel.
Part 1: Kai Hillebrand
Lucas Puig is known to many of us as one of the best to ever do it, Quartersnacks named him the skater of the decade, Dill said his tricks are like bullets, so Adidas decided to mix his best footage from the last five years seems like a great idea! Even if it is just to refresh your memory, or to find out why those people said what they said about Mr. Puig. As for us, we feel like this redux only solidifies why Lucas is deserving of all that he’s got.
https://youtu.be/Y3u7ZoD0bMQ
The second installment of the Far and Away series is here and it features one of life’s most important lessons, share your wealth and share your opportunities with other people so you can grow together.
If you by any chance missed the first episode click here to see it.
Adidas presents us with episode 1 of the Far & Away series. This series provides us with some small previews of what we can expect from the video, at the same time we still don’t fully know what to expect from the Adidas crew. All in all this episode is a good little teaser to get you excited to see the video.
Our friends over at Live Skateboard Media teamed up with Josh Roberts to create this clip. It features Milano Centrale as the stage for the likes of Leo Valls and friends to play on.
Adidas Skateboarding presents the official trailer for their first full length film, which will premiere in the month of May 2016 and features only top-class skateboarders like Dennis Busenitz, Salias Baxter-Neal, Lucas Puig, Mark Gonzales, Mark Suciu, Nestor Judkins, Benny Fairfax, Rodrigo TX, Lem Villemin, Pete Eldrige, Jack Fardell, Jake Donnelly, Miles Silvas, Alec Majerus, Na-Kel Smith and Tyshawn Jones. As that already sounds almost too good to be true, the trailer is also insane!
It’s pretty unusual for skateboarders who pick up a photo camera to shoot subjects other than their friends skating. At least that’s what we thought before we met Stas Provotorov. The Muscovite is a really good skateboarder, with sponsorship from adidas Russia, and you may remember some of his appearances in Patrik Wallner’s documentary series Meet The Stans. But when he invited us over, we couldn’t find any skate photos in Stas’ flat in Moscow. He lives there together with his girlfriend Katya and is a rising star in Russian street photography – maybe by accident, or just by walking around the city open-minded, with a good heart and a roll of black and white film.
His street photography connects us with humanity in all its forms, and in turn allows us to be and feel more human in our day-to-day lives. We sat around on his carpet drinking red wine and eating pelmenies, while Stas showed us his photo collection. Besides some conceptual series of gay Russian men in a local park shot analog on a Hasselblad, he spontaneously captures anonymous moments of beauty, absurdity, grace, and sorrow. His evocative photographs show a deeper meaning in social relations and often bring it all together in a memorable way.
These days, Stas is studying at The Rodchenko Art School in Moscow and this PLACE feature is his very first publication. He’s kind of shy, but his images tell a different story.
By Benni Markstein
Mother Homeland
Waste Container
We are open
Next stop: The Bottom
Cross
Needle
Bus
Metro
Samu Karvonen has been around for quite some time already. For those who do not know, Samu is from Helsinki, Finnland and in addition to his closeness to nature he has a certain fondness for unique spots.
Adidas has joined the rubber toe cap bandwagon but somehow they managed to do it in their own inimitable way. The team is skating the shoe a lot, Puig’s insta feed has been full of clips of him skating this shoe and it is our opinion that if the team is skating a shoe it means that the shoe is good.
https://youtu.be/YDJU_pwbL3s
I met Torsten Frank for the first time this week and knew almost nothing about him. I had already seen his part in the Transworld Cinematographer video, so I knew he was a filmer. But that was it.
When I bicycled out to Kulturforum that day to meet up with the adidas crew, Torsten was the first person to shake my hand. Watching him film and interact with the skaters, I quickly noticed a couple of things about Torsten. One: he knows exactly how he wants his footage to look. Two: Torsten likes skaters that are motivated, and are willing to struggle a bit to get a trick or a line.
As I was sitting down I heard Torsten say something to Phil Anderson, but the weird thing was he said it in the middle of filming a line. That made me wonder, so I asked him:
Why are you talking to the skater when you are in the middle of filming a line?
Well, I’ve been filming for more then 15 years now, and about five years back I was filming this line. I believe it was a two-trick line, and I had already been filming for two hours. Normally, I’m pretty quiet when I’m filming but when the guy landed his first trick really proper I got this feeling that he was about to land the second trick as well. Now because I’ve been filming for such a long time, sometimes you just feel that this will be the one, so I accidentally yelled out: “This one!” And the guy landed the last trick as well.
At first I didn’t think anything of it. I felt it was just a coincidence but it happened again in a similar situation, the skater landed the first trick so proper and I yelled out: “This one!” And again, the skater landed his line, so I started to think, every time I do this I am giving the skater a small boost.
It has to be the right moment though… it won’t work if you do it every time. You just have to feel it out. It also really depends on the person you are filming. Also, if I know a skater doesn’t like it I won’t say a thing, but at the same time I’ve noticed a lot of people do really like it.
So now when a moment occurs where I get that same feeling, I try to give the skater just that little extra bit of motivation by yelling out: “This one!” Some skaters thought I would ruin the footage but I told them that when I edit a clip I can easily take the noise out, so it’s not like the skater ends up with a line with me talking in the background. It’s just one of those funny little things that happen to you when you’re out skating…
by Roland Hoogwater
Photos: Danny Sommerfeld
adidas Skateboarding just released their Superstar ADV model – an updated take on the classic design now with modern performance enhancements devised specifically for skateboarding. Take a look at this instant classic – the brandnew video lookbook features adidas teamriders Tyshawn Jones, Chewy Cannon, Benny Fairfax, Jake Donnelly, Dennis Busenitz, Raul Navarro, Nak-el Smith and Miles Silvas skating New York City as well as Miami:
https://youtu.be/bUdvmF4cRNM
Since the early 90s, the adidas Superstar was the shoe of choice for street skaters. Recently honored skate legends Kareem Campbell, Joey Bast, Drake Jones and Richard Angelides were some of the first to skate in the iconic shoe that contributed to a trend that would last for nearly two decades.
While maintaining most of its outer aesthetic, the all new Superstar ADV was completely re-engineered for skateboarding. A closer look of the Superstar ADV reveals major performance upgrades beginning with a significant reduction of weight and bulk throughout the shoe’s leather upper. adidas also streamlined the traditional three stripes to lie flush along the shoe’s lateral and medial panels.
The Superstar ADV also features a combined sockliner and midsole into one ADIPRENE® drop-in piece for targeted impact protection in the heel and true board feel in the toe. The iconic rubber ShellToe protects and provides superior abrasion resistance, while the Vector Traction outsole lends durable grip for exceptional board control.
The Superstar ADV will be available only through specialty retailers in the U.S. and the adidas Skateboarding website with an initial selection of classic color combinations starting September 1, 2015 and another set of collegiate color combinations on November 1, 2015.
This summer, PLACE and adidas Skateboarding proudly present the 3Stripes3Tricks video contest. It’s all about dynamic skateboarding – easy but stylish, fast and light-footed. This is Pt.8 feat. Jost Arens:
In order to enter, all you need to do is film three tricks – either in a line or three single tricks in a clip – and upload the video to your Instagram account, using #3stripes3tricks while also tagging @placemag and @adidasskateboarding. That’s it – all entries get the chance to win amazing prices. We’ll choose three winners and repost your videos on the PLACE Instagram channel.
And there’s more: the winning footage will also take part in the Big Final Edit featuring the German adidas team with riders like Sandro Trovato, Lem Villemin, Patrick Zentgraf, Kai Hillebrand, and more. Last but not least, all three winners will receive a big adidas surprise stuff package delivered straight to their front door. Whether it’s stripes or tricks – three is the magic number and we hope to see your footage soon. Good luck!
Vladik Scholz posted the teaser for his Titus full part on instagram some days ago and wrote the following:
“It is always a good feeling to see the footage, you got during the last years, puzzled together in this one thing. Everybody knows… It is never enough and never good enough. So I hope you will watch and like it the way I could do it before the deadline.”
No worries Vladik, we love what you put together – pretty stoked!