First, its a sport. It keeps you fit. 
Its just amazing when youre coming from uni or work and your head is all full of things and then youre going skating. It clears it all up. 
Youre only focusing on itself and nothing else. 
Secondly its getting people to know. Sometimes youre only going to the spot for hanging out whithout even skating 
but youre still meeting people as most come in groups and you say hello to everybody. 
Then.. its just fun anyway! Youre not skating seriously, just dorking around with your homies, doing tricks just for fun... 
...Yeah, thats what skateboarding gives me. I wouldnt even know how my life would look like if I wasnt doing this.. 
In each country and in each city skaters are different. And for each skater every city has a particular meaning and everybody perceives it in a different way.
But above all skateboarding in Berlin is less squiggled than from what i know of the danish capital.
Its less styled up.
Theres a higher buying power in Denmark so people are more conscious about their appearance than they are here.
So... seen from a romantic perspective you could say here it is a bit more... 
... raw and real. If you wanna say it that way...
The reason why Berlin is interesting for skating is is because there was a totally new situation regarding space twenty years ago.
The Berlin Wall fell and especially in East Berlin where there was a lot of space and room available for also young people,...
... this space is being used actively. And I would recommend everybody to come here because here you got the opportunity to express yourself.
We got an intense DIY culture here...
...and the infrastructure makes it easy for people to live out and to exploit their potential.
And that is definitely a reason for me to ask ”Why youre not living in Berlin?”
In Berlin theres that atmosphere. Youre coming to ”the benches” and everybody claps hands for each trick and pushes you.
Everybody knows the spots from videos and can estimate how hard that trick was.
They know the spot, what height and distance it is and whats been done so far.
If youre coming from whatever shitty villiage all of a sudden you got huge buildings in the background...
...so, regarding filming theres just more coming across than if youre skating some shitty sidewalk in your village.
Even though it would be the same height, same spot, same trick... its just looking better.
Id say the skate scene in Berlin is pretty close. They see each other often and frequently as theyre all living close to each other...
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...and you can easily drive somewhere with your bicycle quickly.
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Thats making it real positive for the skate scene that they can all see each other easily.
Its not expensive so nobody is excluded because of financial reasons.
Yeah... thats it.
Theres something going on in whole Germany but all the teams are in Berlin.
All those great skateboard teams from all around the world wanna come here and its not only the Mekka for skating...
Theres a new ”Baustelle” opening every day and new spots are getting finished, so I guess you would always find something to skate.
I just hope it all works out for everybody and theyll get happy... and not fucked up.
Living this lifestyle means for me to get up in the morning at some time...
...have some breakfast, leave the house at some time and start skating for more or less the whole day.
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Hanging with the homies, having beers in the evening and then going home more or less late,...
... sober or drunk.
Thats the beauty of skateboarding. Theres no trainer, you got absolute freedom...
...but as it is quite boring to skate by yourself youre actually always catching up with other people.
Back in the days in my small hometown it was more complicated as there were only a handful of skaters.
However, we managed to meet up somehow and it was clear that it doesnt matter how good or bad somebody skates...
...the belonging to that subculture is rather important.
My dream situation is always meeting up with all your friends...
... and whatever happens, youre just having a good time.
And thats the case most of the times.
Yeah its a lifestyle. For me, skatboarding also is using your skateboard as a mean of transportation.
I just have it with me all the time as i might wanna skate half an hour later.
Even if its only cruising down a hill or a fuckin ollie over a gully.
Or you might randomly meet somebody later and then you wanna do something spontaneously. Thats it. Theres much belonging to it.
You could skate by yourself one day, but only to impress your friends with new tricks you learned secretly...
...but thats it already.
But thats nothing for the long run. Its a communal sport.
Being with old homies youve been knowing for years, you grew up with and you started skating with... still being childish...
Its all about having a good time with your friends.
For sure its also about being better than the other...
Yeah, it is important somehow. I think its the motivation behind all of it...
... you can relate it to normal life. You gotta proof yourself all the time.
And only who can proof himself is gonna move on. And thats how it is with skating too.
Quite the opposite! The best skater for example, who already did some tricks, is seeing another skater...
...that did ”better tricks” which all is subjective, whats better or not...
But hes also clapping hands and thinks ”Bow! Sick trick!”
Its no competition. Its rather...
...relation or unity ...that they all share together.
So its less competition than rather unity.
Competitions are also good as you meet all homies and old friends you couldnt see every day.
As you got a lot of friends to know over all those years...
...they all see each other on that weekend...
...and have fun together.
Experience has shown and people should take this as an exemplar for other kinds of competition...
...that people that skate against each other also cheer each other on...
...and are psyched for somebody when he does a sick trick.
Of course its great how skateboarding is more or less reaching public awereness...
...through new ways due to the development of media and through consumption of internet.
It has a value and it makes it easier accessable than it was before.
It is extremely important. I even think that thats the future.
Firms produce videos and bring them out every 2 years.
Its a big production and it takes 2 years.
But I think its even more interesting for the viewer...
...if you watch current footage and current tricks that had been done only 2 days ago...
...and you watch that online and you can access it straight away.
Youre like -Allright! Yesterday Yannick Schall did this and that trick down this and that stair set.-
And youre thinking -Wow!-. You are actively taking part.
And maybe youre like -Oh in meantime this and that spot in that city came up. Wow!-
So even only regarding Information it is way more interesting.
Basically there is no non-currentness existing anymore.
Everything is being uploaded immediately and is accessable.
And I think kids and the young generation is gonna make sure skateboarding becomes more popular.
And as an older person you got to abstain...  
...and see that this is a progress you can only influence...
but not decide on.
And if the young generation decides to make skateboarding even more popular...
...and of course this a progress that comes by itself...
...then I wont stand in its way. 
On the other hand did the distribution of skateboarding footage through the internet...
...and also through various magazines, contribute to that everything is staged more.
Skateboarding outside the camera just looks different than what you see through it on video.
And it also conveys a different reality.
And this different reality is beautiful and compelling and above all seducing...
...and at the same time its also inspiring. Its a crux.
Its not bad but it is as misleading as it is rewarding.
Altogether youre happy if somebody else said -Hey I saw something of you! It was cool!-
Thats also what you do it for more or less.
That is still thrilling me to keep on doing it.
YouTube is important of course. It is THE website that shows whats going on with skateboarding.
What kind of new trends there are regarding tricks...
And therefore youre always up to date. And every day 100.000 clips are being uploaded...
...and its completely overrunning.
Youre watching one clip ... and you like or dislike it but you cant hold it.
And back in the days, 12 or 15yrs ago, when we started skating,...
...when somebody of the homies had a new skatevideo...
...we watched it 50 times a day and copied it 30 times and gave it to friends...
...because it mostly took half a year till there was a new good video coming out.
It just had a greater value.
And through YouTube this value of skateboard footage is getting destroyed.
As it is so big you can choose from every direction. You got a huge offering.
Berlin is having an offering. Berlin never sleeps. Thats Berlin.
Heres just a lot action taking place
In a few years, were all like 25 or 26yrs...with 30, 32... 
There are a lot of skaters who still skate with that age...why not?
