Exclusive of Site Nacional de SkateThe True History of Skateboarding in PortugalChapter V – Irregularities, Federated Cards, another Professional 2018 was year 0 of skateboarding under the ownership of the Portuguese Roller Skating Federation (FPP), which organized the National Skateboard Championship for the first time. Although the FPP is a Federation with decades of experience…
Exclusive of Site Nacional de SkateThe True History of Skateboarding in PortugalChapter IV – Mysterious Change from FPS to FPP In November 2017, Paulo Jorge Garcia Ribeiro, Luís Paulo Lorga Marta de Sousa, and Rui Filipe Nascimento e Sousa formed the Skate Committee that “took ownership of the sport of skateboarding” at the headquarters of…
Exclusive of Site Nacional de SkateThe True History of Skateboarding in PortugalChapter III – First decades of the new millennium In 2001, the second Portuguese skateboarding website created by the photographer Vasco Neves appeared, “skatebyte.com” which dedicated itself to promoting almost exclusively the “Radical Skate Clube” and some people who were close to it. Unfortunately,…
Exclusive of Site Nacional de SkateThe True History of Skateboarding in Portugal Chapter II – the 90’s until 2000’s In the late 80’s and early 90’s, due to the emergence of yet another wave of practitioners, a series of infrastructures were built (once again by companies that did not have any type of connection or…
The True History of Skateboarding in Portugal
Exclusive to the National Skate Site We even reported “unprecedented” news, with so-called “professional” skaters, when at the moment there were only 3 Portuguese skaters who became famous outside of the country. They were: 1st Ricardo Fonseca 2nd Thaynan Costa 3rd Gustavo Ribeiro In the past, Luís Paulo (one of the greatest, if not the…
