Skateboarding in the 90s wasn't that great! Support your local skatepark!

It's really incredible what skateparks are being built right now here in Germany. With the help of the locals, or often without their help, parks are appearing that truly deserve to be called a skatepark. Whether concrete, wood, indoor or whatever. Especially in the last two years a lot has happened here. There are so many new skateparks that in most cities people can already pick which kind of park they feel like today. The choice ranges from flatland curb landscapes and miniramps to concrete pools and all sorts of humpy-bumpy runs, up to really rad DIY parks like the Lentpark in Cologne.
The parks change, but one thing will never change: the people who did the least for a park complain about it the most.

Still, there's one thing to say. Even though the 90s are somehow always seen as the golden years of skateboarding — the wild Hosoi 80s aside — people keep talking about how great the 90s were and how real skating was back then and so on. It's true, a whole lot was new and style really did come into play. See Gino, Kareem, Carroll, Mariano, Kalis and everyone else. Style in particular is coming back right now. Kids look like kids again, and Kids is probably having the biggest comeback you can imagine anyway. It's nothing special to see a kid at the skatepark in a Wu-Tang tee and Dickies right now. But there's one thing we just want to make completely clear!
The skateparks were a whole different story! The following video was made when Sasa Cerinski, Wanja Cerinski, Florian von Hedemann and Robinson Kuhlmann took a weekend ticket to Esslingen and spent a day at the skatepark there. And for the time, that skatepark was really top-notch. The guys built it completely themselves of course, and even if by today's standard it doesn't really have much to offer, you can see from the video that: skateboarding in the 90s was no joke!

Big shout-out to all the Esslingen locals! It was always nice coming to visit you.
To everyone else: if a skatepark is being built in your town, offer your help! It's always way more fun to skate a park you helped build. Because that's how you become a local! And every park lives off its locals!
Support your local skatepark!