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This random metal B in the middle of the block would have metal bars all over it if it was in the U.S.
Went out to this thing to simply look at it. It’s as high as it seems. The waves themselves are fun to push around on though.
Across the street from it was the start of a neighborhood completely covered with brick banks that rarely appear in videos. It wasn’t a “spot,” it was an entire neighborhood with banks of all different sizes and set-ups running alongside a bike path. The bottom ground isn’t great by Barcelonian standards (probably accounts for the lack of coverage), but nothing compared to what we’re used to in this stupid city.
There are a few of these by the water. They’re just covered with those helicopter-propeller-like seeds that give you automatic wheelbite.
 Nobody says anything to you for skating here.
Oh, you know, just an open smooth concrete field in the middle of nowhere that serves no purpose except to throw some banks on.
More mellow banks. How many of those are there in New York? None?
Nobody seems to really skate these. They’re below what looks like the tallest building in Barcelona. One of the few spots we got kicked out of, but after like 30 minutes.
People out here have a habit of telling you a spot is “right outside the train station.” The train station is called Fondo, and the spot is called Fondo, so that would make sense. Yet, it’s like six blocks from the train in a completely random direction.
This place exemplifies a key difference between how they treat public spaces in Spain V.S. America: Knob two out of three sections of these banks, and then leave one open, put metal on top of the ledges, and leave a bench leading straight into it. Could be a coincidence, but probably not. The bump-to-bank that Kalis nollie flips and tre flips in Mind Field was built over and replaced with a playground, though.
Most of the video coverage from the Forum tends to be the two level ledges, the wave and the stadium ledges. Yet, there is an infinite amount of other stuff here, like a pretty low hubba ledge, and a mellow, descending ledge alongside a long handicap ramp.
There’s so much more here, including five million other set-ups of that two level ledge from all the videos.
Two-foot-deep bowl along the beach.
Metal ledge that Mike Carroll made famous. This is the closest thing to a New York spot in Barcelona, except if it was here, it’d be in Brooklyn, and on shitty ground. And you’d still probably get kicked out, or it would get knobbed.
Parallel is built a lot like the Tribeca Park — metal squares filled in with smooth concrete. Except at the Tribeca Park, they made the ledges three times higher, and built ramps up to them. That’s exactly what we need more of in this world, ramps up to ledges, right?
This thing is a lot harder to skate than it looks.
Oh, just another random bank with no purpose except maybe for skateboarders and kids to kick soccer balls onto it.
The bank Ricky Oyola skates in Static II, found while aimlessly searching for Fondo.
This place, along with Universitat (below), are the only places that were explicit night spots. People have been known to throw stuff down from the adjacent apartment buildings because of how loud the echo from skating is at night. Sounds like SoHo.
Went into the culture of this place in greater detail here, but it’s amazing that these things aren’t that chipped up or worn in after so many years of skateboards.
The sort of thing that would look great with a fence around it if it was in New York.
awesome post as always, one thing though, when composing posts,make your links open in a new window.
especially to outside websites.
Yes, obviously. I’m an American complaining about how Americans complain about skateboarding.
Wait, it’s a double negative, so it cancels out.
Wow, drool worthy. 
“More mellow banks. How many of those are there in New York? None?” Sad but true. We gotta import some of those shits.
I’m 95% sure that the metal B is off the La Pau stop. It was 1-2 blocks from the exit.
Barcelona, spot-and-attitude-wise may be utopian, but from my vantage point, New York (minus the winters) is still amazingly blessed. Living in a urban-sprawling strip mall-having “second-tier” level city of about 400K people, I still count down the days for each trip I make up to NY.
Barcelona is isn’t, but still, NY’s pretty amazing for skating. Obviously, it’s all relative. On the scale that goes from bleak to crappy to decent to good to great to amazing, NY falls easily in the “great” column in my book. But yes, awesome and inspiring article! Thanks!
i must say i am extremely disappointed with the lack of lil wayne dropping in on a bowl coverage on this site. all the shit you guys talk about rap and skateboarding and yet you have failed to chime in on this legendary event. shame on you.
^ jesus christ.
which makes one wonder...
that perhaps Louis Kahn’s mid-century architectural plans for Roosevelt Island were the inspiration for EA Skate?

Has Mooney ever had sex with anything besides a skateboard?
skhateyou.com has an awsome barcelona tube map skate spot guide. it’s great and most of the famous spots out in barca (some unknown too) they even got that huge stair p-rod ss frontside heels in his prod5 commercial.
There are also some overviews of some of the more famous spots.
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