Oski Rozenberg-Hallberg is a double reigning world champion skateboarder, who will represent Sweden in the sport at the Olympics. Keen to encourage âspontaneous sports,â heâs in the process of setting up a foundation that will help fund skateparks in economically challenged areas.
Where did you celebrate midsummer?
With a road trip out to the countryside in the south of Sweden [to] revisit an old wooden skateboard half pipe with a few friends. Itâs not every day that you get to skate a ramp that you have ridden on beforeâbut in another country. Two years ago I won a contest on this very ramp but back then it was located in Hørsholm, Denmark. We had a good session and enjoyed skating this legendary sketchy wooden ramp while the Smashing Pumpkins was blasting through the speakers, and all sorts of animals were walking beside, under, and sometimes even on top of the ramp. It felt good to be one with nature again. We had some beers, scared a couple of birds