When was the Polish Skateboard Association born? And how has it grown during the
years?
As far as I can remember, I started talking to Kuba Kaczmarczyk and Wiktor Stasica
about the idea somewhere around 2006/2007. The first registration was in 2007, but
it wasn’t until 2011 that we got a really big group of skaters organized. Poland has
in general a pretty bad road and railway infrastructure, so it’s always a big deal to
travel these f.e. 400 km to meet somebody to discuss things. And we wanted to have
members from as many regions of the country as possible, in order to have a good
representation of the national skatescene. This is why it took us a couple of years
to get a solid group of people. Today, the Polish Skateboarding Association consists
of over 20 well-experienced, active skateboarders, who all are doing something
for skateboarding in their own city or region and who are working in very different
aspects of skateboarding. Plus, they are really spread out over the whole country.
I think that the Polish skate scene is in a really good position looking on the rest of
Europe, what is your point of view?
The skatescene in Poland is definitely very strong, pretty big, and very active. It’s
hard to make a perfect comparison to other countries, but I think that our scene is
doing pretty well, especially if you look back how it looked like 5 or 10 years ago.
Nowadays, there is so much new stuff to skate, there are so many new ideas getting
realized, it almost looks like sky is the limit. I mean, it’s all up to the skaters themselves,
what they will do, how they will skate, where they will skate. The fundamental change
is in possibilities. Today everything is possible. If you have an idea, and are prepared
to work for it, educate yourself, you can make your dream come true.
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