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Title: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: nopes on August 20, 2019, 11:22:33 AM
Can anyone recommend skate shops and park in this region?
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: sk84s8n on August 20, 2019, 11:29:25 AM
Elbow park in Bologna if you want a good dose of fear to make you feel like a child.  Look up The Pasta Power Bru Ray with Giorgio Zattoni.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: Not A Damn Chance on August 20, 2019, 11:32:51 AM
Zurich has one of the biggest skateparks in EU. I can’t personally comment on it because I didn’t get a chance to check it out.

Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: S. on August 20, 2019, 12:23:06 PM
Basel is great for street and tranny skating. Portland is a good diy park and there are lots of different ledge, bank and fountain spots in the city. The city is small so to get arround you can just push on your skateboard or rent a bike.

I'd go there first and ask the locals for street spots.
http://portlandbasel.ch/contact/

Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: nopes on August 20, 2019, 01:36:13 PM
wow Port Land looks amazing and I will do whatever I can to get there. Bologna is my speed too for sure.

Thanks for all the fast replies!
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: Mark Renton on August 21, 2019, 01:00:43 AM
Which regions of Switzerland and northern Italy will you be visiting. I might be able to help you.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: Giza Butler on August 21, 2019, 05:00:28 AM
try contact these crews:

 Warriors ( @warriorsthefamily ) from Lugano Switzerland

 SSD ( @ssdskatebords ) From Como, near the Swiss Italian border.

Meaningless ( @meaningles_productions ) from Milano, they are the train station locals

The ELBO is now called Silver Lining skatepark ( @silverliningskatepark ) is finally under a new management.


other mentionable parks Creedence DIY and Wave Skatepark near Brescia.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: somethingmustbreaknow on August 21, 2019, 05:37:40 AM
in zürich there is an indoorpark, freestyle.ch hall.
in zürich there is an outdoorpark, allmend park.
in zürich there is an outdoorpark, ghetto park hohlstrasse.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: beatifk on August 22, 2019, 06:27:59 AM
Anyone going to the party at Postojna DIY this weekend?

Anyone have any details or want to carpool from the Venice/Padova area?
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: nopes on August 22, 2019, 02:17:43 PM
I’ll be based in Lausanne for the first few days but I will have a car and plan to go to Basel for one day. In Italy we are just driving around with Florence being the most southern we will go.

I plan on going through Lugano.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: Giza Butler on August 23, 2019, 05:02:21 AM
Just FIY:


https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gGNymjTQx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: Mark Renton on August 23, 2019, 08:56:25 AM
I’ll be based in Lausanne for the first few days but I will have a car and plan to go to Basel for one day. In Italy we are just driving around with Florence being the most southern we will go.

I plan on going through Lugano.

Wow you’re lucky, Lausanne is amazing. I went on a tour there with my friends and mainly skated the bowl in Vidy.
The whole city has some nice spots if you look around, I can’t tell you more because we were smoking too much weed at the time and it’s been 8 years anyways.

Geneva is also meant to be rad, it’s in the Skhateyou skatespot guide as well.

If you are driving through Simplon pass and need a stop before Lausanne, they opened a new skatepark in Sierre which is nice and 2 hours away from Lausanne.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: franc on August 25, 2019, 09:51:36 AM
Geneva has good street spots, you can explore the city and you'll find fun shit to skate everywhere.
Lausanne has good spots too but it's well hilly (which is not a bad thing at all). The bowl by the lake is rubbish.
Yverdon has a big skatepark with a good bowl.
Montreux has a good indoor park if it's raining.
There's a new skatepark in Sierre indeed, but it's not 2 hours away from Lausanne, it's closer (just over an hour).
Just over Sierre you'll have Alaïa Chalet too, a big indoor and outdoor skatepark where Chany works these days.
There's a good bowl and a fun pump track in Le Châble, between Martigny and the Saint Bernard Pass, where you'll have to go when leaving southern Switzerland for Italy.
Bern has Bernside, a good bowl built by the locals.

Where exactly are you going and what do you want to do or see?
I was born and bred here, I should be able to point you in the right direction.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: franc on August 25, 2019, 09:54:20 AM
Pietrasanta in the north west of Tuscany has that ill marble skatepark.

Bologna is rad.
Street beers at the San Francesco square, fuck yeah.
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: j....soy..... on August 26, 2019, 10:07:50 PM
Turin had a rad little street plaza and a legit shop.  Nice town too...
Title: Re: switzerland and northern italy
Post by: nopes on August 29, 2019, 08:55:53 AM
Thanks for all the help everyone but unfortunately I had to cancel my trip at the last minute because my dog is sick.  :'(