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Ah yes, Copenhagen.

Once upon a time, this media outlet’s entire summer brand was dedicated to traveling there. In recent years, it’s been tougher to wind up in Denmark 2x in two months, but we get to go other places — it’s fine. (Also, we were there in ’22, it’s not that dire…)

But if there was anyone you could choose to send to Copenhagen in your place, it’d probably have to be someone classically trained on grey plaza ledges with harsh winters barking at their heels, right? Someone who perfected their craft at Eggs, maybe? It’d probably be helpful if they had a Kalis-ian pair of fakie flips to show the world, right?

Well yeah: our friends at Eighteen East had the same idea. They sent QS-favorite Ben Tenner out there to weave some lines, and earn a bonus on exemplary varial heelflip form.

📷 Matteo Botti by Matt Price

We had hit Marcello about his availability for something completely unrelated this past fall, and he mentioned he was in Rome. Now, like most Americans, if you’ve been to Rome, and stayed in the historic center that most tourists stay in, you quickly come to the conclusion that yeah, maybe Rome isn’t the best city for skate spots. (By contrast, in Turin or Milan, you can find spots pretty easy… Florence and central Naples, yeah nah.)

“You’re going on a skate trip …to Rome? Interesting?” seems like a common reaction to many of us who don’t know any better, but it turns out we’re all idiots.

Watching this edit, our first reaction was, “these spots are …in Rome?!” Turns out a lot of things change when you leave the historic tourist center. Shocking, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Spring Over — Ben Tenner in Copenhagen

Marcello & Friends in Rome — 18 East’s “Sette Mezzo” Video