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 …