Archive for the ‘SpotCheck’ Category

Paral-lel – Barcelona, Spain

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Paral-lel is one of many skatespots located out in Barcelona that are considered warm-up spots where everyone gathers around to figure out what other places to skate next.  Paral-lel is famous for it's manual pads with metal edges.  I'm sure that any skater has seen this place before and  know what we're talking about after checking out the photos below. Jesse Silvey lends a helping hand ...


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The DC Embassy – Barcelona, Spain

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Knowing people across the globe definitely has its perks, especially in Barcelona where it is skateboarding and graffiti heaven.  Skate All Cities stopped by The DC Embassy this past week on a rainy day to catch a skate session recently.  For all those who don't know, The DC Embassy is a private indoor skatepark located out in Barcelona, Spain designed for all DC riders and ...


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Banksy

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The Skate All Cities team stopped by a new (but old) spot out in the Glassell Park area that consists of a long street filled with banks and wallrides.  Don't ask me who did the construction to this place, but it's almost a skateboarders' dream.  Notice the word "almost" because this spot has semi-rough pavement and cracks all over the sidewalks. Tyler Jimenez warms up with ...


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The High Jump

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After the release of our first full length featured skateboarding video just a couple of weeks ago called "Picture Me Rolling", we've already been hard at work filming for another full length video as well as several "Welcome Video" segments of our team that we plan to release online this year. Los Angeles legend and my brother from a different mother Gabriel Martinez is also handling ...


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“Scumbaggin All Cities”

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It's Spring Break around these neck of the woods in California so that means alot of the LAUSD schools are fair game on weekdays.  Skate All Cities stopped by one of these schools to try to get some tricks in.  New recruit Anthony "Gogurt" Amedori warms up with an Ollie over a regular sized picnic table just to get things started. While the rest of the ...


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Heel Bruised

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Skate All Cities stopped by the Lincoln Heights area to check out some old skatespots and ran into this little jam.  A lengthy five stair ollie over rail to street gap.  Not sure if you can see it from this angle, but you have to thread the needle in between the stop sign and rail in order to make the land.  Joe "Chopak" Aivazian had ...


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Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch

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The Skate All Cities team skated around the Echo Park area this past weekend and linked up with our favorite ripper Mark Villero. Picture perfect Switch Hardflip by Mark after a couple of warm-ups. Anthony "Gogurt" Amedori backs Mark up with a firecracker. While Squid and I were dicking around on this weird contraption.  No Homo.


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What’s Good In The Hood?

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Just another day skating around the hood with the Skate All Cities boys.  Randy Chew gets it in with a beefy Frontside Ollie from the other way around. While Gabriel Martinez picks his nose shortly afterwards. Making his first appearance on our blog is Mr. John Lee.  SGV Represent! Josh Sierra shows you how not to do a Blunt on this thing. Tim "Squid" Bise tries to one-up Josh ...


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Heavy Traffic

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The Skate All Cities team have been going hard in the paint with filming lately just to finish up a couple of video projects that we've been juggling for the past couple of months.  Newest recruit Josh Sierra had to get it in at the Ave 55 Bump this past weekend to apply some finishing touches for an upcoming video release for a popular skateboarding ...


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PLAYTIME

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Skate All Cities stopped by an elementary school within the Los Angeles area to check out a new hot spot that consists of some stairs, a metal hubba and downhill slope with table.  If you've seen the latest NIKE SB Chronicles video then you might want to check out Lewis Marnell's ender at this spot.  Pretty savage if you ask me.  Gabriel Martinez goes in ...


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