City 01 Skate Days, 2016. Skatepark Monte Tossal (Castillo San Fernando). Alicante. Spain. Two skaters

It appeared that embracing the central values of the subculture (participant control, self-expression, and a de-emphasis on competition) was essential to the authenticity of a skateboarder. As noted previously, these values implicitly challenged those associated with traditional sport and, therefore, nonconformity to mainstream standards was also an indication of authenticity. This must be qualified, because not accepting the rules and regulations of adult authority was the outermost layer of legitimacy. What gave a skateboarder more status was whether his or her style of nonconformity was a creative form of self-expression. From this point, authenticity becomes more fluid; it is the individual expression of self (as long as it challenges some aspect of traditional values and norms of organized sport or society at large).

Quote. Becky Beal & Lisa Weidman. «Authenticity in the Skateboarding World», Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works, 2003

City 00Skate days (CSKD) is a project of great scope on the world of skateboarding, raised from a vision that tries to go beyond its sporting side. I focus attention on aspects that reflect a subcultural model, very diverse moments and contexts, attitudes and signs that tell us about that experience: fashion, graffiti, gestures, local environments, lifestyles, group interaction, youth and contemporary identities. But it also opens up to other perspectives: the visibility and roles of women in the world of skateboarding, the relationship between skate and social integration based on community actions, the practice of skate in developing countries, the reinterpretation of urban culture from the expressiveness of very different local identities.

City 00Skate days (CSKD) es un proyecto fotográfico sobre el mundo del skate, planteado desde una visión que intenta ir más allá de su vertiente deportiva. Centro la atención en aspectos que reflejan un modelo subcultural, momentos y contextos muy diversos, actitudes y signos que nos hablan de esa vivencia: moda, graffiti, gestos, entornos locales, estilos de vida, interacción grupal, identidades juveniles. Pero también se abre a otras perspectivas: la visibilidad y roles de la mujer en el mundo del skate, la relación entre el skate y la integración social a partir de acciones comunitarias, la práctica del skate en países en vías de desarrollo, la reinterpretación de la cultura urbana desde la expresividad de muy diversas identidades locales.