184 - spot - germany by Caroline roos - Photo Florian Klamert
pop up skatepark After years without an indoor spot, Munich’s riders finally got themselves a place to hide from the rain, the FURTHER skatepark at the Backstage Club. For the first time since the last indoor park closed in 2009, riders have been offered an indoor POP UP Park at the legendary Backstage Club Music Venue for two weeks in August where they could ride the FURTHER street park no matter the weather or light conditions outside. Even though only planned to stay for a short period, the success of the park has now encouraged the city to rethink the infrastructure in Munich – after all the third biggest city in the country and one of the very few without an indoor spot!
A massive indoor park has been in the works all along with opening scheduled for earliest 2016/17 but as it has been apparent from the POP UP park, an indoor spot is needed now! FURTHER and Backstage are both determined to offer the park at least till the opening of the bigger venue so stay tuned on www.facebook.com/backstageskatepark for updates on further developments. Although the park is not officially open at the moment, there is always a possibility to film in there, here a little insight which was done for Epic TV with Thomas Calcagno, enjoy!