Episode 58 with Jan Kliewer, skateboarder and skatepark builder from Berlin, Germany. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Göttingen and picking up his first board in the late 80’s, traveling to California and getting flowed ATM Click boards and DC shoes for a bit, getting on Cliché and filming for their iconic second full length video “Bon Appétit” directed by Fred Mortagne, moving from DC to Globe and from Cliché to Jart within a few years, having a part in Pontus Alv’s cult classic film “The Strongest of the Strange”, unofficially joining Polar in 2012, retiring from pro skating and getting into journalism as the German editor of European skate mag “Kingpin” for a few years, his current job as skatepark designer at Yamato Living Ramps…  

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