Check out our D.I.Y. project that we’re working on. It’s in the final stages right now, with any luck the concrete will be done by the end of May. You can help us make this rad skatespot in the city center of Amsterdam! Click the Skatemates crowdfunding button on the right of this page or make Read More …
The main goals of the Urbansportszone are to to stimulate young people & young adults to move in as many different ways as possible and to offer them a public place where they can practice urbansports, be socially interactive and develop themselves creatively. More and more young people are choosing individual sports instead of joining a Read More …
Summer 2013 is looking to be another good one with one of the biggest BMX events in the world coming to Amsterdam! June 8th saturday evening around the time when the sun goes down 16 of the worlds best BMX riders will compete at the Red Bull Framed Reactions. This event will have a changing park Read More …
Every once in a while you see pictures of a skatepark that makes a big impression on you. You stare at the pictures and start dreamskating instantly. It’s not everyday that smooth concrete gets shaped in an amazing design on a big & spacious area. Usually these places are found in the United States with Read More …
What do you get when you combine one of the world’s most iconic skate graphics with our lovely city of Amsterdam, capital of glorious nation of Netherlandistan? Love him or hate him there is no skateboarder that has done more for the progression of skateboarding than Tony Hawk. ‘Mister Skateboard’ to the mainstream Tony is Read More …
Skatemates are working hard on getting a professional public skatepark in Amsterdam. But because we cannot wait and we need to skate we have started to do it ourselves! At an undisclosed location in the centre of Amsterdam we have worked through snowstorms & rain to clean up an abandoned piece of land with a Read More …
The Stokeplaza of Stoke on Trent is a one-of-a-kind circular skatepark that will make most streetskaters and BMX-ers pee their pants in excitement just looking at these pictures. With a wide variety of ledges, manuals, stairs and banks this is the perfect place for technical tricks and neverending lines. What’s especially nice are the ‘skatepaths’ Read More …
Slowly but surely we are getting more support for our plans for a large public skate park. Our Facebook pagina is getting more ‘likes’ every single day and we’re getting international attention for our plans for a professional concrete skatepark. The municipality has responded positively to our plans and it doesn’t stop there: Skate Mates recently talked skatepark Read More …
Although he isn’t from Amsterdam, this guy’s talents are so undeniable that we have to give credit to the man. No doubt about it Hollands’ most famous and best inline skater is the one and only mister Sven Boekhorst! Sven began rolling around in Den Bosch around 1994 and became a professional in 1998. And Read More …
Remember the first time you saw a skateboard or a BMX? Pretty impressive innit? A couple of weeks ago this picture showed up on the interweb: a skate demonstration on a halfpipe in Amsterdam. I guesstimate that this is 1984-1985 and it looks a lot like the Beursplein on the Damrak in the centre of Read More …