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PUNK! That is what Mobina and Melika are. why, you might ask? Well, first of all, they are DIY people. Coming to Germany together with their whole family and finding a new way in a country, a society & a city that bares at best small resemblances to where you were born. That said, they took on that challenge and are well on their way of knocking it out of the park. All while staying humble but not shy and they are certainly not shy! HIGH ENERGY, that is what they bring, jokes for days, a lust for life that in all honesty, we haven’t seen that often. Mobina (18) is a wild child, dancing at parties, skating with the pros, finding out about all that Berlin has to offer while still maintaining a serious attitude to her education. Melika (15) is a bit more relaxed, strong-willed on the board, not afraid to take a slam or even go back to get what she feels she can land. All while putting great value into people treating each other with kindness and respect, she doesn’t suffer fools lightly either and will let her opinion be known. At the same time, they both like to pull pranks on one another, pretend like they hate each other saying things like “You make me want to vomit!”. But in all honesty, it is a game and they are playing the game well and have fun doing it together!

Text by Roland Hoogwater / Photography by Tina Willim.

We first met Melika Nazari one and a half years ago at Heidelberger skatepark in Berlin, a random skatepark to be at, if you are a young upstarting skater in the German capital. The transitions are steep, the ledge and the flatbar are pretty high & the flat ground is not the most fun but Melika found her way.

We all skated for about an hour after which our crew sat down, immediately Melika introduced herself and started asking questions:

“Who are you? What are your names? Where are you from? Do you skate here often? What are your IG handles?”

Melika Nazari.

Needless to say, we where a bit overwhelmed but at the same time she was nice to us and obviously so interested in skateboarding that we obliged her and she made a real impression on us. It was only when we fired some questions back at her that we found out she wasn’t German, she was a refugee from Afghanistan. That fact almost seemed unreal to us because she was fluent in German (no real accent) and dressed like a skater no shyness either, it just showed us not to judge a book by its cover.

“Drag & Drop” only works on computers girls!

I met Melika a couple more times and each time she showed a lot of improvement, she had found a new home at the better-suited skatepark DOG SHIT SPOT. And that is where they really became a part of the Berlin skate scene. People have opened their arms and welcomed them in, helping them with boards, shoes and all the little things so that they could continue to skate.

Fast forward to November the 10th, at the Nike SB Shelter in Berlin to be exact. That Sunday we first saw the girls in their natural form… together. It was at the Skate For More Session that was part of the then-new Just Do It Campaign of which both sisters were a big part. That day hosted best tricks, a race, a potential to vote for a new Bowl section but most of all they stood out by co-hosting the workshops, investing their energy into giving back to new often young skaters from all walks of life.

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How does a person that flees Afghanistan via Iran ending up in Berlin find skateboarding? Drop-In that is how! DROP-IN is a foundation that hosts projects for Refugees and as the founder Joest Schmidt explained uses sporting activities to engage in education and integration of new-comers into German society. Mobina & Melika entered a summer program that helped teach German, showed them the city and introduced them to their first love Skateboarding.

They were hooked from day one, we offered other sporting activities but they were only interested in one thing. If we would go swimming they would ask if they could go skate instead.

Joest Schmidt, Drop-In Founder.

Joest being a skateboarder himself obviously obliged them and so their journey began. Their German language skills developed at least as fast as their skating did, that is in part due to the fact that Drop-In’s courses involve mixing local Berlin kids in with the Refugees creating the necessity for both to find a way to get out of their comfort zone and talk to each other.

Mobina enjoying her first 15-minutes of fame.

“That and the fact that we where hanging out at the skatepark a lot, really helped us learn German fast! We had to try and talk on a daily basis we couldn’t stay in our own language bubble.” Melika tells us.

Now within three years, they don’t only still attend skate classes, they are able to host them and teach new people, in a sense closing the circle that Drop-In created.

Imagine this, they came to Germany 3 years ago, found a new hobby, sport, art… whatever you want to call skateboarding and within 2 years they were not only fluent in German but also good enough at skating that they could stand in front of a group of native speakers and teach them their new hobby, their new lifestyle.

Joest Schmidt, Drop-In Founder.
Mobina & Melika together with their girlfriends

As I said in the intro they are PUNK, they might not dress like PUNKS did in the ’80s but they are “Do It Yourself” people taking their own route and not following the mold that other refugees, skaters or teens have followed in the past. For a lot of girls with Muslim backgrounds, a lot of activity can be forbidden depending on the strictness of their religion. Riding a bike is one of those activities but skateboarding is so new that it is not Haram so it can be practiced freely. And even though skateboarding is an activity that you perform alone it is something that you do together with your friends, culture, heritage, age, ethnicity all fall to the side the only thing that counts is “are you a real skater?” and if you can fulfill that requirement you can hang.

So to close it off, this is, of course, a story about two young women who through hard work and having an open attitude managed to find their way into Berlin. But more than that it is a story about skateboarding, social work and that special mix that can help people from all walks of life.

Mobina called this one the Pineapple.

On the 05th of November, we proudly kicked off our first Tuesday of many to come of skating at the famous YAAM Berlin location. For a lot of people from Berlin, it was a flashback since the location for the longest time had a mini ramp that had to be removed a few years back.

YAAM short for Young African Art Market started 25 years ago as a place where the different African communities meet. The conceptual environment at the Spree has a big heritage in hip hop, graffiti, and skateboarding and became a place to connect with all the different parts of the city. Converse now partnered with YAAM to create skate sessions inside the music venue every first Tuesday of the month and we are happy to be hosting these. Together with Civilist Berlin and Give Something Back To Berlin we will be presenting various activities and sessions for the next few months.

The space will also host a group of young people from marginalized communities being taught how to skate and discover the culture and lifestyle that goes with it and at 17:00 we will go into an open session for everyone to join.

Here is what went down:

A big thank you to the Converse Berlin Office, first and foremost Fernando “Nando” Garciacocapiera, Yamato Living Ramps and everyone for showing up, we can’t wait to see you on the 03rd of December at YAAM!

More about the project soon!

All Photos by Danny Sommerfeld.

Every now and then I think back to a very quiet moment in my life, a moment just after I listened to John Cleese’s high informative & entertaining speech about creativity a moment similar to this moment now.

In this speech, he talks about the two modes of creativity #1 the open mode, #2 the closed mode. In the latter you do, you have decided on an idea and you execute your plan. A plan you created in the “open” mode, a state in which you allow all your thoughts to be there is no wrong and there is no idea too big to be realized.

The point that I am getting at is that we spent a whole lot of time in the open mode conjuring up potential magazines but that with the launch of our issue #65 we have officially with the help of other executed an idea that might have sounded Ludacris when it first came to mind.

Now, we didn’t do all this alone, we had a special trump card in Stefan Marx and so when it came to launching the issue we had to play the Marx card for you to get something out of the ordinary. So without further ado, scroll through one of our most creative recaps and afterwards go to your local shop to pick up Issue #65 “The Stefan Marx Issue”.

Drawings by Stefan Marx.

Intro by Roland Hoogwater.

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Our sincere gratitude goes out to Nike Sb for the support, Sondre & Tereza for their musical efforts and of course all who attended both to see the new issue and the ones that came to show love to the women that skated their asses of in “GIZMO” you are the best!

Our man Conny Mirbach came through to party with us at the Adidas x Alltimers launch party and as photographers do they shoot. This was no normal party though, there were some extra measures in place to make sure that our special meters where filled all the way up.


The party started where it always starts at Berlin’s staple skate shop Civilist. We met some people talked about skateboard history and had some “warm up” drinks. Until things moved next location.

The main location included soccer, bull riding, boxing, and many other activities they really hit the nail on the head with this one (pun intended). Honestly, though, it was great and if you won at any of the games got a free drink to celebrate, needless to say, some of our staff stayed until they closed the party down.

 

All photos by Conny Mirbach.

Last week we provided you with the photo recap and today it is time for the video recap.
Featuring guys like Giorgi Armani, Farid Ulrich, Justin Sommer, Patrick Rogalski, Kai Hillebrand, Philipp Oehmige and many others.

So press play and enjoy the video that Jon Wolf and Mark Nickels made for us all.

The 21st of June is a special day. It’s not just the official beginning of summer and thus the longest day of the year (speaking from the northern hemisphere point of view), it’s also the date we skateboarders celebrate our passion, culture, and community – the International Go Skateboarding Day. Since we happen to live in a major city like Berlin, we are lucky enough to annually have a well-organized event by Nike SB.

This year again, the event was well-attended, the weather bright, the atmosphere good and just like every other time, I could not believe that another full year had already gone by. We bottle flipped at Pappelplatz, did some cash for tricks, up, on and over a picknick table, we raced around the Project DSS course and we tried to break speed records by doing flip tricks as fast as we could. In the end, Justin Sommer did a 35 km/h varial kickflip which is probably the fastest varial flip ever done on flat ground, an amazing way to end Go Skateboarding Day 2017!

Special thanks to everybody who came by, Nike SB, Yamato Living Ramps, Civilist Berlin and Titus Berlin! Until next year!

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One of skateboarding’s most exciting days is almost upon us, not only locally but all across the world, skateboarders from all walks of life are set to gather on Go Skateboarding Day 2017. This year Nike SB and PLACE are asking you! Not only all skateboarders but everybody to come and join us in Berlin on Wednesday, June 21st. Together we will take on our city’s streets to skate, celebrate and essentially do the things we love most.

We invite you to meet up with us at Civilist store and/or Titus Berlin
in Mitte where you can pick up your highly limited GSD SURVIVAL PACK before we all head out to the Pappelplatz skatepark to witness and compete in the first ever BOTTLE FLIPPING SKATE CHALLENGE presented by Civilist.

At Pappelplatz we will also announce the (top secret) location of our next staple event: the CASH FOR TRICKS SECRET SESSION. A session presented by Titus Berlin in which you will be directly rewarded for your heavy-hitting tricks with cold hard currency.

As the sun will slowly start to set, we will still be sweating through our shirts trying to crown the winner of the PROJECT DSS GRAND PRIX open race event. For those of you that are not looking to break speed records, you are welcome to enjoy some very cold drinks and some very hot BBQ food together with the people of Yamato Living Ramps and the 1. Berliner Skateboard e.V – anything goes on Go Skateboarding Day Berlin 2017!

To summarize

12 – 2 PM | Civilist / Titus Berlin Mitte
Meet & grab your GSD Survival Pack.
ATTENTION: highly limited availability, register here to safe yours: http://gonike.me/goskateboardingday

2.30 – 4.00 PM | Pappelplatz
Bottle Flipping Skate Challenge

4.30 – 6.00 PM | Secret Spot
Cash for Tricks Secret Session

6.30 – 9.00 PM | Project DSS
The Project DSS Grand Prix & BBQ

Go to our Facebook event by clicking here.

Brian Anderson had many good years but we are sure he had a very special 2016. Nike SB knows the man and over the years have collaborated with him on colorways, special editions, and even his own shoe. A lot of people in skating get their chance to work on projects but Mr. Anderson seems to be very hands on, his style and sense of zeitgeist have made the results of those projects classics. Yesterday saw the release of his newest project to date and next week he will exhibiting some of his painting as well. I say all that to say this, Brian Anderson is one our greats and he has been my favorite skater since day one and I was honored to be able to have a little smalltalk with him.

How are you, Brian?

I’m doing very well. I just have been painting and being in New York for the holidays, so yeah, it’s been nice!

Has it been snowy outside as in Berlin?

Yeah, it snowed! I was actually in New Jersey stuck in the house for two days and the snow… it was awesome, it was great! (Laughs)

Yeah, same here! It’s been snowy the whole time and actually even a little snow stormy today, which I really liked to be honest just sitting inside working.

Oh, cool!

I guess, at the moment it’s morning for you right?

Yes, it’s almost noon.

So, you were painting you said?

Yeah, I was working on some paintings for Berlin. We are leaving Saturday and are going for the Bright Tradeshow. I have some big paintings that were too heavy and expensive to be sent, so I actually started to make four new ones. I am working on them for the next few days and bring them on the airplane to see you guys.

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Brian gracefully sliding through a backside tailslide.

Yeah man, I definitely will stop by your exhibition. It’s actually not far from where we are. I was wondering though about the painting. You have been painting for quite some time now, right?

Not too much within the past ten years because I kind of said “yes” to every tour and I got a dog… So, I never had time to go to the studio and paint. I was mostly trying to skateboard, was running a skateboard company, doing Nike tours, autograph signings, competitions, and demos. So yeah, I didn’t really paint I just kept a sketchbook. But I’m trying to stay in New York more now, and not leave as much all year long. Here is where I can paint more art and start trying to get art shows with friends and it’s good. It’s really calming and it’s kind of a good energy flow and lets bad energy out. So, I really enjoy it now. I just painted for a week straight all alone. It was great and very therapeutic. 

I kind of know what you are talking about. Before I started working I was in art school for four years, so I can really feel you on the therapeutic calmness of painting.

I don’t know how long ago but I remember watching a day-in-the-life type of thing with you where you showed a couple of your sketches. It was the same one in which you talked about watching skateboard videos in the mirror, which means to watch for example your favorite regular skater riding goofy. That was actually kind of the start for me to draw, too. And that’s kind of funny that we are talking about that now. So, I was wondering how did you end up doing an art show in Berlin?

It was kind of last minute. I mean, I hate to call it an art show because I just bring four things. One or two months ago Kaspar (van Lierop) asked me “Hey do you want to be in this art show with Nick Jensen for the Bright? You know it’s kind of on the smaller side…” And I was like “Yeah, sure that would be great! I will make some paintings!” So, yeah, I know Nick from the time we both used to be on Fourstar together and I really loved to be around him, he is such a great guy. And yeah, it was like “Let’s go to the Bright Tradeshow and hang out” And we also are going to launch the hockey jersey, the spring ’17 line and the capsule that I created. So, I’m pretty sure that we are going to have a small party for that as well. And then we are going to go to Oslo, too. It’s going to be a nice trip. I’m really excited. And I have to add that I’m looking forward to seeing Nick and that I love his art!

I think so, too! I think it’s definitely juxtaposition between your and his work but I’m kind of excited to see it. He is a very much into more abstract things or let’s say he’s combining abstractionism and realism.

Yeah, so mine is a little loud. Not like a crazy loudness in a ‘piss off’ way but I use like crazy wild colors and think that stems from me growing up on some much advertising and Hot Wheels and Coca-Cola and all this television stuff. I love bold strong images. I love labels and so on. So mine is a little bit more bright and his is a little bit more patterns but it’s beautiful like I said you can tell he took some much time to make these paintings and you have to respect that. It’s great!

So you are working from a studio you said?

Ah, it is not really a studio! I was working at a house. My family has a house down in New Jersey.

Ah great! I was wondering about the collection you are launching. It’s a hockey jersey, which is kind of a trademark for you, I guess, and the shoes as well? So, what inspired you? I mean everything seems to be smoothly picked like for example the coloring is nice. It’s very suitable. So, were you very hands on with this project?

Yeah, I was very involved with it! I did the original sketch of the whole jersey itself and it was well received and so we decided “Hey let’s do a whole capsule!” And then I did a sneaker drawing and then, you know, we picked some existing pieces that were already in the SB line, you know, classic hoodie, a coach jacket… And yeah it’s not like I wore a hockey jersey like twice a month or a year around, it’s not necessarily my signature thing. I just thought, you know, often times they don’t fit that well. And so I found an exciting jersey that I liked that was a little smaller fit, so we used that and I just kind of was like have them shirked the arms down a little bit and the shoulders so they do not look quite as big as a traditional hockey jersey so it’s fun and I’m hoping a lot of other people will take it to popular culture and hip hop, whatever… It’s pretty “gangster” if you might say. (Laughs)

Check out the lookbook to get a feel for Brian’s capsule collection.

That’s what I like about your style. It’s not only drawn from skating. It has a very broad reach. I mean, I can see people all over the world kind of wearing the stuff and that’s kind of nice.

Yeah, it is! I love to wear all kinds of genres. One day I leave my apartment with a tie on just because I want to feel different for the day, you know, and maybe wear sunglasses and walk down the street. And then the next day I maybe wear camouflage and cargo pants with a hockey jersey. I just like to wear whatever I feel around a day. It’s fun because then when you design you can feel how things should fit from whatever category: punk, rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop, skateboarding and so on.

So, do you often shop in thrift stores or do you just go and look around what’s the thing at the moment? Where do you find what you like?

I actually wanted you to ask that! I turn forty this year and I just kind of have all these pieces that fit me so great that I actually don’t really go shopping and buy stuff anymore at all! I just kind of look at magazines and see what’s trending and walk around in New York City to see all the new stuff right away on for example the subway train. You know, all the kinds are fixing and changing ideas. It goes so much faster nowadays through the Internet. It’s easy to see what’s going on in the culture. Especially in New York City, it’s like that day or that week something becomes popular you see it. I love watching what’s the younger generation is doing with trending.

It’s kind of amazing that your generation to say broadly has been around for that amount of time that wasn’t there before. I mean I’ve been talking with multiple skateboarders about this. It’s kind of nice that you see like the cycles of things. That was not much of a thing in skateboarding before speaking of fashion cycles.

Oh yeah, it’s fun to see skateboarding go back to beautiful eras like the 90’s style again, you know. Kids are wearing little baggy pants in New York City but I’m also pretty sure that there are a lot of tight pants kids out in Los Angeles but yeah, it is cool to be around that length of time to see things come and go. And you also see a lot of fashion taken from skateboarding, you know, it’s funny. It’s like a pyramid flipped over. Before it was the top with Gucci and Louis Vuitton and all these types of things and then down on the bottom it’s like skateboarding and popular culture and now it’s like reversed, now we’re kind of at the top and high-end fashion stuff is a little below and looks up to what we do more often. It’s interesting. Everything is more mixed together nowadays. A lot of high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Coach, Chanel and stuff they are using patches of like hand-drawn little dinosaurs and stuff, more like what maybe skateboarders would wear.

Yeah, it feels really playful at the moment. People are experimenting around with colors a lot, too.

Yeah, that’s well put “playful”.

And that’s kind of what I see in skateboarding as well like you can do slappies again. Like when I was starting to skate I didn’t see a slappy until a couple of years in and understood what it was even. And now it’s like the kids are growing up with such a broad view, which the Internet of course kind of did as well. It’s not really a question, I guess, but there are parallels.

Yeah, that’s right! Sorry, man but I have to go! Any Last questions?

No, don’t let me keep you! Have a nice day and see you in Berlin next week!

Yeah, see you there! Bye!

 

To get more information about Nick and Brian’s exhibition Click Here.

Interview by Roland Hoogwater

Last Thursday Thomas Busutill launched the long-awaited Aus Berlin Yearbook at Civilist store in Berlin. As the De Paris and Of London ones the Aus Berlin Yearbook is also a great compilation of street photography from various photographers, which depict the life of skateboarders in one of Europe’s greatest skate metropolises. The book is a piece of art as it is a piece of history with photographies from Henrik Biemer, Benjamin Deberdt, Alexei Lapin, Alex Pires, Danny Sommerfeld and many many more.
The book launch was accompanied by a photo exhibition and a video premiere as well.

Photos by Paul Röhrs

Every year with the beginning of summer on June 21st (the longest day), skateboarders all around the globe meet up to celebrate the international Go Skateboarding Day. For this reason, Nike SB once again organized a whole event in Berlin. This year was different because of the Project DSS connection, the day started at a classic spot and ended at what will probably be one of Berlin’s new hotspots for the next years to come! On this day, Polendenkmal was host to the first best line contest and, people definitely went off! Some NBD lines were made with considerable ease and style. After that, we cruised down to eat and skate the DSS. Watch the video and see exactly what the atmosphere was like, who did what and who rolled away with the prize money.

Today the DSS will be officially opened at 7PM so if you want to join us for a little sesh click this link

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Every year with the beginning of summer on June 21st, skateboarders all around the globe meet up to celebrate the international Go Skateboarding Day. For this reason, Nike SB once again organized a whole event in Berlin.

After everybody had the chance to pick up a little “GSD goodie bag” at certain skate shops, Berlin’s world famous “Polendenkmal” was the next spot to meet. When the spot was fully crowded everybody was invited to an open session down the stair sets. As Berlin has plenty of very talented riders, one could of course expect an exciting show. But what went down was far more insane than any exaggerated prophecy. The level of skateboarding I witnessed yesterday was just unbelievable. NBD lines were done within minutes and with every trick down the eight and nine stair set the steps seem to shrink more and more.
As the session was finished, everybody set course for the Dog Shit Spot at Warschauer Straße where then food and drinks were served, the results of the votes of the project DSS events were revealed, and another best line contest was about to go down. Moreover, one could have a view on the site of the new skate park and the construction plans got introduced by the man Lennie Burmeister himself.
All in all, it was an outstanding Go Skateboarding Day that seeks its equal.

Photos by Danny Sommerfeld

It’s almost that time of year again, time for Go Skateboarding Day – Day In Day Out! This year we have changed things up a bit, we have taken a new turn, a turn for the best! You can start by registering so you have access to a great but limited GSD 2016 Goodie bag that will give you access to some free drinks and the BBQ. The GSD Goodie bag can be picked up after registration at one of these four locations, so try to register as soon as possible so you don’t miss out:

REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE!

Pick your GSD goodie bag up at one of these skate shops:

Civilist Store, Brunnenstraße 13, Berlin-Mitte, from 12am

Titus Berlin, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 9, Berlin-Mitte, from 10am

Titus Zoopreme, Meinekestr. 2, Berlin-Charlottenburg from 10am

Nike Berlin Store, Tauentzienstr. 9, Berlin-Charlottenburg, from 10am

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You have up until 3PM on the 21st of June to pick up your goodie bag because, at 4PM , we will start the day of at one of Berlin’s most famous street spots the stair sets at the Polendenkmal. There we will be hosting an open best line session where the best lines will be rewarded with 1000 Euros in total! After the mood has been set we will then find our way to the Dog Shit Spot / D.S.S. to unveil a final draft of the design that came out of all of your voting efforts. Come down or roll down the hill with us and see what your vote will result in!
Then we will start the second open best trick session at the newly revamped ledges in which you again can compete in to win another 1000 Euros! So if you participated in the Project D.S.S. events, voted on one or more obstacles, are a Berlin city local or a just person that wants to participate in the day’s events, come down to skate, hang out and celebrate with us at the 2016 Go Skateboarding Day!

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Yesterday Civilist Berlin and Nike SB invited everybody to the launch event of Project DSS. Many locals gathered together at Pappelplatz skatepark for an open session with a free offered BBQ and cold drinks and not least to participate in the first voting for their favorite obstacle for the expansion of Berlin’s famous DIY spot.

The session quickly gained momentum while locals skated next to big names like Denny Pham, Farid Ulrich, Michi Mackrodt and Patrick Rogalski and an uncountable number of tricks went down over the well-known “Pappel Gap”. At the end, Phillip Oehmige impressed the crowd with a Switch Backside Bigspin followed by a Nollie Bigspin Lateflip and took home the 500€ voucher for the best trick.

For more information about the project, the voting and upcoming events click here.

Photos by Danny Sommerfeld

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