I recently had the pleasure of joining the Supertoxic
Urethane team on a week-long trip to delve into the wonders of the Berlin skate
scene. As it’s been rated up there with Barcelona for skateboarding everyone
was hyped to skate there and it did not disappoint. Big sets, street beers, being stot at by a crackhead with an imaginary gun and 24 hour discotecs, this was definitely one of the best trips I've been on with such a sick bunch of dudes.
DAY 1
As everyone is located in different parts of England people
flew from different airports and we met up at the hostel. Ross Zajac and I met
a keen Danny Able fresh off a plane at about lunchtime and we then headed to
the hostel. On arrival we were promptly told by some of the team what a shit
hole the hostel was (which now seems like a Hilton hotel compared to the result
of 14 pairs of sweaty feet stewing in a small dorm for a week). And which we later suspect was above an unmarked titty bar.
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| Before we'd even left the hostel Lloyd managed to saturate himself in Chinese food |
So after dumping the bags and grabbing some food we headed in search of our first spot. I’d been to Berlin for a couple of days last summer and remembered some gnarly huge banks in the centre so we headed there to check them out. Unexpectedly, some hammers got thrown down before we got kicked off and we then moved to the plaza at the other side of the tower. We skated here for most of the day and met up with Danish who had missed his flight…
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| Charlie Munro - nosebonk 180 |
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| Lloyd McLeggon - Kickflip |
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| Sandy - Bennihana |
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| Chad Muska finally showed up. erm I mean, Danish |
DAY 2
Everyone was keen to keep their legs fresh for the rest of
the trip so we went in search of the legendary Berlin bench spot for some tech
madness. Things didn't quite go to plan as we found a handrail just outside of
the underground stop. Once Charlie was done murdering the rail we continued our
search for the bench spot. We spent most of the day filming at this spot which
is time consuming when you’re rolling with a crew of 14 people!
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| Charlie Munro - Fs Feeble |
After chatting to some locals we found out that this spot is not just popular in Berlin for the benches. It is also highly populated with attractive females.
"Dont do hard tricks! Just tweak out a steezy front board and then get all your homies to go mad, clapping and cheering!"
This guy knew what was up.
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| Sam Pendlebury - Bs Boneless |
Friendly Locals offering out fruit
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| #TEAMNASTY |
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| Ross Zajac - Polejam |
DAY 3
We set off on day 3 in search of some more legendary Berlin spots. The first spot was the up/down corner block which was ripe with charismatic homeless people. The spot had definitely seen better days due to its exposure and was therefore not the easiest thing to skate.
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| Ross Zajac - Lipslide |
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| Charlie Munro - flip bs tailslide |
The next spot on the list was the polish memorial. This spot was literally a shredder training facility! everything was ridable, grindable and jump-down-able. I didn't manage to get many photographs at the spot because I was too busy filming but everyone killed it and made it worth missing out on shooting a few photos. When the Full length Supertoxic video comes out you'll understand.
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| We were lucking enough to meet Mark Suciu and some of Habitat team. They were all really nice dudes and killed it! |
DAY 4
We started off day 4 with a quick trip to the skate shop only to find out it had a concrete bowl in the middle of it! unfortunately we weren't allowed to skate it for long but I managed to catch this photo of dale giving it the once over.
The first spot was a huge street vert quater. Or so my map lead me to believe. When we arrived at where it was meant to be there was just a block of flats... so on to the next stop.
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| Radman rocking a quick one on a bridge while we were waiting for the straglers of the group to catch up |
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| Ross Zajac - slappy 5050 the rainbow |
Even though we didnt find the last spot it did bring us closer to this unbelievable spot. Almost straight away Kinney sterilised himself with a heafty ball shot. Some of us were feeling worse than others after a few of us went after some renowned German nightlife. We ended up partying at a techno all nighter and must have been the only people not pilled off our heads. the sensible ones got an early one, Dale went smooching with 2 girls at once and a cheeky 5 knuckle shuffle in the club... and Pendlebury and Headford partied until 7 am.
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| Sandy - Tuck Knee |
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| I had to wake Dale up from his midday slumber to get back up and do this fs flip again for a photo. Dont think he was too pleased. |
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| Danish - Nollie bigspin heelflip |
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| Lloyd - 180 sw 50 |
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Charlie i think you're doing it wrong - sw crook up the bump
DAY 5
To our surprise whilst we were out skating the day before someone was kind enough to build a manny pad right outside our hostel. We woke up early and skated it for a bit until the builders returned and said they had to start work.
Ant Voyle
Sandy doesn't mess about when it comes to breakfast
We set out to find the skate-able fountain on the outskirts of the city, One of the trains we needed to catch wasn't running meaning it took us over an hour to get there! And on our way there out of curiosity we watched some footage of the fountain. At that point I think everyone realised how big it was going to be, and then we got there, and it was bigger... Despite its size and essentially having a metal spike in the middle, a session still went down.
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Lloyd was kind enough to go into filmer mode at this spot
The fountain was right at the entrance to a park which meant loads of lurkers. As soon as 1 old lady hobbled her way down the run up, there would be kids on bikes in the fountain, not to even mention the meat head who threw stones into the fountain in an attempt for his dog to chase after and piss in the fountain.
Kinney - Pushing a fat no comply out of the dish
After leaving the fountain we headed home to charge the camera batteries and then head out for a night skate. We headed out for the night skate (minus the charged batteries... my bad). We accidentally ended up at the museum we were planning on skating the next day so got a cheeky taster of what was to come. The place looked amazing, so many different ways to skate it and about 10 completely different obstacles.
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| "Danny you're so fit you should be on a chocolate wrapper" |
...and the "im going to fuck myself up at absolutely every spot" award goes to..
Charlie Munro
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Sam Pendlebury - Nosegrind
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DAY 6
We headed to the Museum bright and early to make the most of the only day it was closed. The place was amazing and it was the hottest day of the trip. The only let down was the screech of a pebble that could be heard every 2 seconds followed by someone hitting the deck or throwing the F word about.
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| No photo can do this drop in justice |
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| You win some... you lose some... |
Radman saved the day multiple times with this First aid kit
We discovered that we had only been skating a small part of the museum at about 6pm when we went in search of what we'd been referring to as the "Brady" ledges. We turn up to see Brady and Jenson skating there. what are the chances. After Shredding the spot till dark I decided I hadn't taken enough photographs so blinded everyone with these night shots.
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Lloyd - Bs Bluntslide
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| James Headford - 5050 |
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| Ross - Bs Tailslide |
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Radman Getting Rad
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