Skate Europe’s Forgotten Country with Cody Lockwood, Max Kruglov & Crew | CIRCLING BELARUS Part 1

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Belarus is a forgotten country in the shifting sands of modern Europe. With incredible Soviet architecture making for unreal skate spots, this activation of RB athlete Maxim Kruglov brings a new dimension to our unparalleled Skate Escape series by showing the skateboarding wonders closer to home with imagination and verve. Join Cody Lockwood, Rob Wootton, Marco Kada and Max Kruglov in part one of Circling Belarus!

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[Music] [Music] huh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] so we’re here in belarus and if you don’t really know much about belarus it’s absolutely in the center of eastern europe surrounded by russia lithuania latvia the ukraine and poland so it’s as eastern european as it can get it was part of the soviet ussr belarus is a relatively young country that just gained independence in 1991 but it’s developing really fast since then and they’ve invested a lot of money into different monuments and marble plazas which has been great for skateboarding but it’s also a great mix of forest seeing that the country consists of 40 forestry we decided the best way to experience belarus was to jump in a van and circle around it so we started in minsk we drove to grodna later on to breast and then into mogalov [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] thank you we met up with this homie nikita and he is originally from belarus but now he lives in russia but he keeps coming back because he has family here and like a lot of friends but he found out that we were going to this really like crazy old kayaking ditch spot he’s like oh i always wanted to go here for a really long time and so we ended up getting him on the mission to meet up with us and he came through and got one of the sickest tricks at the spot man it was something absolutely insane because i never really thought to go looking for an old kayaking course or something to look for a concrete skate spot and now i’m going to go back and i’m going to search and see if i can find something like this and where i live [Music] come on [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] [Music] come on [Music] is [Music] [Music] so on our last day in minsk we got invited to the ussr skate museum that is ran by my now good friend glib he has this insane like deep history of ussr skateboarding museum in his house and he was nice enough to let us come and check it all out seriously like really epic to get to see this he was a super cool dude and he has so many things he’s collected over the years about all the history here from start to what it is now and it’s really cool to get to see the roots of something like this and where it all began one of my first board the name i just found my first skateboard that exactly the same color same shape pretty exciting to hold my hands right now i think i got it around 1994 1995. the only graphic this book has is this small sign that says this is a rollerboard for mass use for grown-ups [Music] to break up the drive in between minsk and grodno we decided to make a pit stop and try and find the maldives of belarus [Music] if you’d like to tag along for the second part of our trip stay tuned for episode [Music] you