Tag: DIY
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Closing at the EKA Exhibition in photos. “WE NEED MORE INDOOR SPACES.”
Forget the chatter — dive headfirst into the madness of the last two EKA gallery sessions. Juša Danik knows all the tricks ! Nightwood’s tiny mascot, Zéphyr, keeps snaking the old dogs, session after session! Léo getting some taste of the vert. Zelda — here for one thing: pure fun! Villiam Müller — making that…
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Low Season – The Subarctic Transition Theory.
Nooa Marjamaa at Rajakylä DIY. Photo/Lassi Polso. When the sun clocks out and the concrete starts steaming in subzero silence, the northern crew rolls in. “Low Season” just dropped — pure skate adrenaline, straight to the bloodstream. We caught up with Tino Riekki and Lassi Polso to talk DIY temples, mutant deck shapes, and keeping…
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Heini Luotola – Short Graceful Summers.
Heini Luotola, fs grind in Räsälä, during a Statum summer trip in 2018. Heini Luotola is one hell of a rider. One of Finland’s finest, and a serious inspiration for the next generation. She just dropped a sick new video part for Beyond Store, Jyväskylä & Helsinki—and it’s pure joy from start to finish. Style…
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Robin-Christopher Raimo: Apprentice of Thunder – every trick like a lightning strike.
Robin-Christopher, fs rock and roll on Skoone latest addition, JMK mini ramp. Robin-Christopher, barely fifteen winters old, already rides a skateboard like a bolt of lightning stolen from the sky. Born in the frozen lands of Estonia, raised among ice and shadow, yet cursed — or blessed — with the fever of wood and wheels.…
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Tartu’s DIY Rampocalypse.
Ralf Rasmus out to a board slide, sick doesn’t even start to cover it! And now, comrades, a proper Estonian tale from the underground rattle of the Baltic boards. The true heartbeat of chaos was thundering in Tartu—the not-so-secret-anymore skate capital of Estonia. They already made us drool over their Tähtvere concrete monster—insane bowls that…
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Nightwood Finland Trip 2025 – Part III “Skate or evaporate.”
Jaagup Mägi crave grind at Kenneli DIY. We woke up with crusty eyes and creaky knees at the sacred Havumäki Ranch, kicked off a sunrise session to shake off the cobwebs, and hit the highway with breakfast coffee breath. Destination: Tampere—the so-called Skate Capital of Finland, and let me tell you, they ain’t bluffing. A…
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From Animal Chin to Cosmic Dreams: The Finnish Skate Ritual Nightwood Finland Trip 2025 – Part II
He’s got more miles than your dad’s Volvo and twice the style—Jartsi Heikkinen. The land of Alvar Aalto, From Animal Chin to Cosmic Dreams: The Finnish Skate Ritual And so the serious trip began. After two days of heavy heat, lake dips, and forest walks to rinse off the city static, we bid farewell to…
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Raakel: A Man for His Time and Place.
Portrait of Raakel in his backyard. Way out south-west there was this fella… fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Raakel. At least that was the handle his parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Raakel, he called himself Raakel Bloody Raakel. Now, Bloody Raakel …
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Don’t do it yourself, do it together !
Nicolas rock n roll (picture by Jaagup). A couple of years ago, we got the need with the family to leave our old soviet flat and seek for a house. For month, we struggle to find the One and at the end found a perfect little old house in the center of Tallinn. In the…
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Support your local Loigu !
Jeremy Vaask. In around 2018 a dozen of skate renegades decided they had too much, enough with the general vision of our official governance regarding the public skatepark designs. Their persistence in doing it wrong… The group of friends felt the urge to have their own skate wonderland in Tallinn, a place designed, built and…