Our buddy Emilio Dufour — who you likely know from one of this year’s finest releases, Hardbody’s “Never Enuff III” (rewatched it this morning: it’s so good) — just dropped a new video with his Tercer Mundo crew out of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Nunca Fuimos is edited by Emilio, and revolves around parts from him, Andrew Gray and Thomas Hughes — two ex-pats who visited Montevideo, crashed at the skate house for a bit, and now call the city their home. Thomas is running Losi Skateboards out of there; Andrew is running a magazine called Merece, which features a photo of Thomas’ obtuse-angle 5050 from Nunca Fuimos on its latest cover.
Midway through the video, is a section filmed at a grey-and-tan expanse of concrete that only a skater could love. Plaza Portuaria sits on the waterfront of Montevideo Bay, and features a couple chunked-out cement ledges that the boys have rehabilitated on top of the grey mini-tile ground commonly found in this part of the world — a texture with a cadence not unlike New York’s diamond-plate.
Plaza Portuaria is also the hundredth pin on our One-Spot Map 📍 Our prayers from two weeks ago about #100 not being some bullshit were answered.
The One-Spot Part Map started as a project back in the summer of 2021. The year since the outbreak of the pandemic had grounded all skate travel, and much of the world’s skaters set their eyes on home turf. That period coincided with an explosion of locals planting their flags via one-spot parts, which have trickled into later years as well.
On the day it debuted, there were 46 pins on the map. With Plaza Portuaria, there are now 100, covering six continents, and everything from The Search For Animal Chin‘s Wallows Ditch section from 1986 to multiple parts at global icons like London’s Southbank, right through a nondescript vacant lot in Lagos, Nigeria.
It also bears worth repeating that skate spots are not forever. The fact that the crew planned to premiere Nunca Fuimos at Plaza Portuaria, and never got the chance to because it was demolished and converted into grass is proof enough.
Like the man said: “You never know. Spots these days…”
