Here’s a few pictures from last saturdays manifestation. A
lot of skaters had shown up to protest against Barcelona city hall and their
strictness about skateboarding rules in the city.
The frustration is not something new in this area, at all,
but last weekends huge extreme sport event X Games brought it back to the
surface.
Mean while the catalan parliament enjoys all the attention
and fame this event brings to the city, the real people who actually support
these kind of sports, are totally left out of it. The skater community has been
begging for a real skatepark to be built to this city for 10 years, so the
event lost most of the local peoples support by building amazing setups that
were private and destroyed after the event. They could have organized the event
in a place where the parks could have stayed and everybody could have got some
fun out of it. Skating is for everybody!
Barcelona is not the dream skate city. It’s forbidden to
skate in the streets, and you can get a ticket from 20€ to 3000€ for cruising
in the street or just walking with a skateboard in your hand with the INTENTION
of doing it. It’s completely ridiculous.
I see tourists all the time getting their board taken away
from them by the police. They don’t know about these things and they’re easy
targets.
I wouldn’t have been surprised if some of the X Games
participants had that experience outside the event area. Surprise surprise…
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