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10 Countries With Fast Growing Skate Scenes

These skate scenes may be very small, but they are the ones so watch.

If this list has shown anything it’s that there’s plenty of hunger in Scandanavia for skateboarding. We eagerly await the arrival of an austere, knitwear wearing, skateboarding detective on our screens. Perhaps nowhere in the world has embraced skateboarding like those crazy Finns. As an example, when Helsinki officials observed that city skaters appreciated public monuments that had ledges and curbs, they contracted people to build marble structures replicating the public works. Furthermore, the government employ skateboarders to build and operate urban skate parks, and generally allow them to oversee the parks’ rules and regulations.

The result is a thriving, still-growing scene, with numerous skate-only local brands and shops, and a vast army of next-gen kids armed with skateboards and parental approval, and loads of sweet parks to use them.

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