One Week of CPH OPEN

WITH EVERY EVENT OF 2020 BASICALLY CANCELLED, now would be a good time to appreciate one of the best gatherings the skateboard world has ever known.Every year, up until this one, the streets of Copenhagen would erupt with a demo extravaganza of epic proportions. It's like the best session and party of your life blended into a seven-day-straight hallucination. Get to understand the spirit of the CPH Open with my favourite people and quotes from 2019. "If we cut down on culture, we actually make the society poorer, especially for the youth. They will be afraid to dream. They are so obsessed about choosing the right education and being a good citizen, but what are their dreams? They need the culture; they need the underground; they need the space to figure themselves out. And skateboarding is a way to do that." -Franciska Rosenkilde - Mayor of Culture Copenhagen "We need to make things durable anyway, because today, the environment demands it. We need to make things that will last anything. If we don’t, they will be replaced, and anything that's being replaced is basically double the carbon footprint. The Frankensteination of capitalism has turned into just one big search for the next juicy income. And we need to reverse back, step by step, to return to things that are more about the people’s needs. So I think maybe in some twisted way skateboarding helps the environment." -Julien De Smedt - jds architects "Some architect might say, 'You’re destroying my building,' and yeah, maybe there’ll be wallride marks on it, but at the same time this is life. I don’t think we like super perfect stuff untouched. The city has to get a little bit of flavour and we love that dust, right?"-Santiago Sasson
❤️CPH OPEN - The Champagne of Skateboarding.
CPH OPEN IS A MOVEMENT. IT'S AN ORGANIC ADVENTURE SET INTO MOTION BY THE PEOPLE WHO TURN UP WITH LOVE AND GOOD ENERGY. CPH OPEN IS PROOF THAT TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE THE BEST OF TIMES AND FORGE LONG LASTING RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH SKATEBOARDING.
SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2007, CPH OPEN HAS GROWN TO BE THE CAN’T-MISS YEARLY EVENT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SKATEBOARDING ELITE AND FOR CROWDS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
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