Tag: portugal

Cybercafé Skateshop is Lisbon, Portugal’s local skate shop and they released an amazing new shop video that showed us the wide variety of their scene. We love that!

Support the shop HERE.

For this video, a part of the Vans Skateboarding roster also traveled to the lesser-known cities and spots of Portugal to have a good time and experience the Portuguese “Bom Viva” way of life. The country definitely has a lot to offer.

Filmed & edited by Blai Costa.

There are times where like Almada, Portugal itself things get a little rough but it seems this video always keeps its power. Especially Adilson Pedro!

Also, this video does the lovely work showing the community these skates enter to do their tricks. Just to name a highlight there is a little kid doing some Prince like dancing!

We just received a mail from Will Jivcoff who is running Medium Skateboard Magazine from Toronto:

“The video is called ‘A Good Initiative’ and features Alex Furtado, Japhey Dow, Dylan Fulford, Scott Balkwill, Scott Varney, Kevin Lowry and Nestor Judkins. We road tripped around Sao Miguel Island for 17 days and drank espresso, wine, swam in hot springs, ate way too much steak and checked out what skating the island had to offer.”

A film by Joel Watamaniuk.

 

When it comes to skate trips, the amount of pleasure you will receive in the end is mostly based on the crew of people you are with. You will end up in new places with some people you never met before while you are feeling some pressure to produce good photos and shoot video footage. This process sometimes can turn out to be a lot of fun!

But at the same time, there is no guarantee that you will get some time to be yourself. In fact, this pre-spring trip was not even planned to with these goals in mind. This trip was in fact about a bunch of good friends getting a slice of Porto’s sun while tasting some of Porto’s culinary delights. We were documenting each other’s skateboarding whenever someone was feeling one of the spots the old town has to offer. We weren’t expecting too much, we had semi-working VX cam and some spontaneous coastal showers, this forced us to enjoy the other attractions of the city.  

As a result, our daily skate activities were divided by coffee breaks and some sightseeing. In the end, we were surprised by the amount of footage we are able to present you with in the following clip. The whole thing was entirely filmed by the members of our crew, and if you are watching it you get the same feeling we had on this trip, the feeling of enjoyment when time elapses.

Words by Valeri Rosomako
Edit and Photos by Manuel Bogner

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