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 …

Check out our D.I.Y. skatepark that we’ve made! We’ve poured almost all the obstacles and now the concrete is drying. With your help and donations we have been able to build this awesome spot but we still need more support to pay all of our bills! Now that we have added all our bills we   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 …

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 …

If you know the BMX scene even just a little then you probably know how Amsterdam has nurtured an amazing talent yet again. Anyone who visits the Marnix Bowl has seen him flying by: Daniel Wedemeijer is on a nice roll these last few years and more and more often you’ll see him cycling across   Read More …