Featured rider of the week: Tobias Kibbel

More German stoke. Tobias talks to us about the weekend in Madrid that changed his life. His supercrew – OneGiantFamily, the German scene and Longboard Couch Surfing! Enjoy

Hey ToKi, great to finally talk to you!
Hallo Gbemi! Nice to talk to you.

Where are you from?
I am from Frankfurt (Main),Germany.

Is that where you started skating?
Ha! Thats a tough question. Skating on a Skateboard, yes. Longboarding, no. But to be exact I started skating in Bad Vilbel. Thats where I live. 9km from FFM City.

What’s the skating like in Bad Vilbel? Is it BAD?
Oh, it is BAD. No, serious. We have fought for a long time to get a skatepark and finally we got this tiny little junkyard ten years ago. But that´s not enough. There was another very good spot, but there are houses being built there now. But that was just a signal to get involved and we still fight for a park down here. We have founded a Verein. That’s what it is called in Germany. A Club? But that was some years ago. We had a lot of fun at our contests!

A club in Bad Vilbel or Frankfurt?
The club is called Grüngürtel. In Bad Vilbel. But as Skateboarding is my past, Grüngürtel is my past. Longboarding is my future. So we have founded a new club. It has been a very intense time for me the last four month and many things have happened since.

When did you start longboarding?
I planned a trip to Santiago de Compostela with my father in spring last year. We booked one-way tickets to Madrid. But as life goes, my father decided not to go on tour with me. It was a very sad year but anyway. Madrid was waiting. And man! You know what Madrid means. I started to fall in Love on the 28th of September 2011.

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