Qualla: Skatopia https://qualla.com/skatopia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Skatopia https://qualla.com/skatopia Skatopia: Introduction https://qualla.com/skatopia/ Brewce Martin keeps a piece of his own skull on display at Skatopia. After a tire-shop explosion in 2009 put him in a coma for six weeks, surgeons removed a chunk of bone to relieve the swelling around his brain. When he eventually recovered, he kept the fragment, and he shows it to visitors who make the drive out to the 88 acres of southeastern Ohio hill country he has spent thirty years turning into something between a skate park, a music festival, and a self-declared anarchist commune. A writer at TransWorld Skateboarding called Skatopia '88 acres of pure skateboarding anarchy' in 2003, and the phrase stuck so completely it became the subtitle of the documentary film. The skull fragment, like the King Dong ramp and the Church of Skatin', is just one of the things you find when you go looking.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/skatopia-wp/dnvw-skatopia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Skatopia: From Basement Ramp to Permanent Park https://qualla.com/skatopia/ The first version of Skatopia was a ramp Brewce Martin built in his parents' basement in 1977 out of closet doors and particle board. He was a teenager. He built his first quarter pipe in 1979, and then a series of better ramps through the 1980s, even after moving to Florida for ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/skatopia-wp/dnvw-skatopia-from-basement-ramp-to-permanent-park.mp3 0:06 2 full Skatopia: Lula Bowl, the Full Pipe, and the Church of Skatin' https://qualla.com/skatopia/ What grew up on those 88 acres over the next decade was less a designed park than an accumulation of obsessions. The Lula Bowl is a deep concrete bowl named for Martin's daughter. The Epcot Bean is an irregular concrete pour shaped like its namesake. The Full Pipe, completed in 2...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/skatopia-wp/dnvw-skatopia-lula-bowl-the-full-pipe-and-the-church-of-skatin.mp3 0:06 3 full Skatopia: Bowl Bash, Backwoods Blowout, and the Bands https://qualla.com/skatopia/ Twice a year, Skatopia becomes a festival. Bowl Bash in the summer and Backwoods Blowout in the fall draw hundreds of skaters and music fans to the property for weekends of contests, camping, and live music. The lineups have leaned heavily on the punk and skate-punk worlds: JFA, ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/skatopia-wp/dnvw-skatopia-bowl-bash-backwoods-blowout-and-the-bands.mp3 0:06 4 full Skatopia: Anarchy as Operating Principle https://qualla.com/skatopia/ Skatopia's self-described anarchism is more practical than ideological. There is no admission fee in the traditional sense - visitors are expected to contribute labor, materials, or time. Drugs and alcohol are present at festivals but managed by the participants rather than by se...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/skatopia-wp/dnvw-skatopia-anarchy-as-operating-principle.mp3 0:06 5 full Skatopia: Flying Over the Hill Country https://qualla.com/skatopia/ From the air, Skatopia is a small clearing of concrete and outbuildings on a wooded ridge in eastern Meigs County, several miles outside Rutland and well off any state highway. The bowls and ramps catch the light in unexpected ways - the Full Pipe in particular, a pale cylinder l...

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