Tag: Fabian Jankoschek

What to say that Luci hasn’t already said in his TURTLE 3 interview? What about just a little advice to young filmmakers, DO YOU and don’t follow the trend make it! Don’t trust me just follow Turtle Productions and see it in motion.

We have been to Karlsplatz many, many times and this place is probably the beating heart of downtown Vienna while it can also be just a “Square” for everyone to sit down and have a beer or two. It’s impulsive but yet also calming. Luci did a “ur Leiwand” Job with this one, including all the homies and all the corners of the square.

One thing just left us wondering, how come Luci is the filmer, editor and the best skater in this video all at once?

Featuring Lucas & Fabian Jankoschek, Henry Gibbs, Gabriel Schmit, Samuel Dietzel, Jan Federer, Simon Trummer, Sven Langkabel, Thomas Fuchs, Antonio Pekovic, Anton Defant, Gregor Fuchs, Christian Schörghofer, Sebi Binder, Niki Hergovich & many more.

Vienna’s Turtle Productions is back with a video called “Gehirnamputiert” and the right translation of the word would be brain-dead. We can tell you this, it is not the best time to be a turtle. Now, watch the video and understand why.

Featuring Lucas Jankoschek, Fabian Jankoschek, Sven Langkabel, Fan Federer, Simon Trummer, Thomas Fuchs, Lukas Koller, Lukas Krobath, Manuel Mayr, Henry Gibbs, Louis Marschall, Aurelio Ghirardelli and Gabriel Schmit.

Remember when it used to be sort of whack to make the music yourself in the early 2000s? We can think of multiple companies and people skating to music produced for their parts and it being a big miss. There were obvious exceptions even back then, but nowadays, with music rights and a strong DIY current running through skating “handmade soundtracks” are now better than ever.

Turtle Productions out of Vienna is at the core, something for the homies by the homies and this video shows that all the homies have their own skills that contribute to the whole. From the A-2-B, this was handcrafted with love.

When travelling to Israel even the most apolitical person gets confronted with the fact that the birthplace of most of our major religions makes even the most menial tasks political. One can go through the airport security check in many other countries without having political thoughts but this land forces you to confront your thoughts and beliefs. As a fellow Dutch person I can imagine it is like going from 0 to a 100 real quick. In Israel, religion, conflict and class function in a way that can feel truly foreign, so skating is in a sense a safe haven.

Intro By Roland Hoogwater.
Text by Sebastiaan Vijverberg.
Photos by Ziggy Schaap.

“Such a blessing was given to the Land of Israel” – Johnny Cash.

No skateboarder would disagree on Johnny. Although tensions in Israel are high, the people we’ve met in the holy land we’re so welcoming and accommodating we immediately forgot about the travel warnings and security checks at the airport. If this isn’t convincing enough, consider the distinctive mix of religions and therefore culture you will experience in the promised land.

Get there while you can and don’t forget to bring hummus home!

Shalom.

Text to go with the images:

1 – Dutchie Justin Wagenerskating the first spot Ofer showed us in Tel Aviv.

2 – Louis Marshall flew more than 3000 kilometres to skate this sidewalk.

3 – Kinky at the Tel Aviv beach.

4 – Fabian Jankoschek did graffiti, fidget spinning and a little bit of skating on the side.

5 – Fuck you all, Lucas Jankoschek goes down with the wrong foot forward.

6 – Low impact spots are the best, and they get better when high impact skaters like Sebastiaan Vijverberg skate them.

7 – We skipped the club and fancy bars to get crusty in the streets of Tel Aviv.

8 – The old city of Tel Aviv gives a feeling of what Israel used to be, Louis front blunting just before it went from twilight into night.

9 – Sven Langkabel has the highest Wallride Nollie’s and the lowest amount of tricks documented, unfortunately!

10 – There’s alot of spots around the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the most famous one being the meetup spot around the corner of Louis’ wallride called Golda.

11 – Ashdod is a little more south of Tel Aviv and has a whole different level of archtecture like this Dubai like marble ledge spot. Ofer owned this spot after guiding us around the whole week, thanks Ofer <3

12 – He might be small but Turtle CEO Lucas Jankoschek did the biggest switch wallride to regs.

13 – This spot seemed to be the holiest of the holiest places we visited in Jerusalem, we were listening to Ofer’s crazy hip-hop playlist on the boombox while Fabi ollie’ed in the bank.

14 – Only one day of rain during our 10-day trip through Israel and even then the Ofer legend came through with spots to skate. Sebastiaan Vijverberg – Fs ollie

15 – Hopping fences in Palestine territory

16 – Lucas Jankoschek rides the abandoned pool park on our way to the dead sea

17 – People pay a shitload of money for this holy mud which is good for the skin. Sebastiaan bathing in European money

18 – Turtle out!