Skate Club Telč¶

Five years ago I moved to Telč with my family. Small Renaissance town, Czech highlands, five thousand people. No skatepark.

I bought ramps. I bought protective gear and skates so kids who did not own any could still show up and ride. I started sessions — twice a week, regular, regardless of weather when we had an indoor space. The municipality listened, trusted the project, and cooperated closely.

In September 2026 a 59×19 metre skatepark opens in Telč. Bowl and street. World quality. A platform outcome, not a personal achievement.

What the club actually is¶

Not a sports club in the conventional sense. We do not train for competition. We do not rank children by skill level. We do not separate the kids who can already skate from the ones who are scared of the board.

We create a space where falling is part of the process. Where fear is acknowledged and then worked through, not avoided. Where kids from the forest kindergarten and the community school skate alongside kids from everywhere else, and none of it matters except the shared experience of trying something hard.

I train twice a week. The sessions are somewhere between movement practice, Ido Portal method, coordination work, and just learning to fall correctly without hurting yourself. The body and the skateboard are the same kind of problem: find balance, accept imbalance, recover.

Why this connects to everything else¶

The same instinct that built the skate club built libdrone. Take something that seems inaccessible — a sport with a reputation for difficulty, a hardware platform that requires engineering knowledge — and document it, structure it, lower the barrier until a person who has never done it before can show up and start.

The club's Manifesto says: We don't wait for permission. We act. We build. We support. One trick, one session, one shared moment at a time.

That is also the libdrone founding statement. It is also how I approach documentation. It is the same sentence every time.

SkateArtStudio¶

Each year we run an exhibition of art on skate decks — SkateArtStudio. Artists, the club, the community. Skateboarding and culture are not separate things.