GOTHENBURG SLALOM SKATERS

Our skater-friend Roofy in Linköping had an accident on his board today. He was a skilled skater but that didn´t help. He died this after noon, my heart is with him and his family. Please wear your helmet ALL the time when you skate.......please!

The exhibition is up and running.


We have a new kind of visitors in this building for sure.

The kids are dragging their parents to the hall where the skateboards are on display......in some cases the parents are dragging their kids.

I have met a lot of old skater-friends from the 70:s who think this is great and several of them are planning to buy a board and start again...like I did.

Some of our visitors think they are to old to try but hey....you can never be to old to skate.

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If you go to www.designmuseum.se and click on "aktuellt" then "skateboards".
You will find a picture of a skateboarder in the air. Click his board!

Why can´t I stop thinking about it?
My brain is processing setups, slalom courses, trucktuning and even boardconstruction...all the time!
Is this some sort of illness? Did I fall to hard in my youth?
I really don´t know.......but I do know that if I can´t skate for a couple of days I feel sick.....for real.
Have to go.......and hug my boards.
See ya.

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I´m in the middle of something absolutely beautyful.

It all started when my oldest and best friend (aka Wolf) told me that he was going to buy a longboard.
The last time we stod on a skateboard was 30 years ago...he must be joking!?
We did buy some boards and on my 44th birthday we tried them out for the first time.
From that day nothing was the same.

We went back in time in a second and bec… Continue