Polar

843 Polar products across 52 European shops. Price from €9.30 to €200.00. Available sizes: 7.0, 7.8, 8.0, 8.00, 8.1, 8.2, 8.25, 8.3, 8.37, 8.38, 8.5, 8.62, 8.65, 8.75, 8.8, 8.85, 9.0, 9.2, 9.25, 9.75.

Polar Skate Co., founded in Malmö by Pontus Alv, is the most influential European brand on the market today. Artistic graphics, house shapes like the Surf Jr. and a team featuring Hjalte Halberg and Oskar Rozenberg have made it an icon of European skateboarding.

Origin: Sweden
Founded: 2011
Products tracked: 843
Shops with stock: 52
Price range: €9.30 – €200.00

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About Polar

Polar Skate Co. is what happened when Pontus Alv, Malmö pro, filmmaker and artist born in 1977, stopped waiting for the industry and started his own company in 2011. He had already spent years building his city’s DIY scene by hand and making acclaimed independent videos that laid down the brand’s aesthetic DNA before the brand even existed: creative street skating, lo-fi 16mm-flavored footage and hand-drawn everything.

History

Alv’s pre-Polar résumé includes actual concrete: Malmö DIY spots like TBS and Savanna Side were shaped by his own hands, starred in his films, and are now a pilgrimage stop for anyone skating through Sweden. Once the brand got rolling in 2011, Polar spearheaded the mid-2010s no-comply renaissance and did as much as anyone to establish European skateboarding as a creative force outside the California bubble. Its full-length videos are widely cited among the most influential of the decade, a filmmaking legacy that still defines the label’s identity. Alv also kept expanding the family, co-founding sister footwear brand Last Resort AB with Sami Tolppi in 2020, while Polar itself stayed independent and skater-owned throughout.

Who rides for Polar

The current team: Aaron Herrington (13-plus years on the brand), Oskar “Oski” Rozenberg, Nick Boserio, Paul Grund, Shin Sanbongi, Jamie Platt, Emile Laurent, Román González, Kiki Kakitani (who also rides for Last Resort AB), Nathan Clancy, Ebou Sanyang and Dylan Mills, a former Polar warehouse worker who got put on the team. That promote-from-within streak runs deep: warehouse manager Robbin de Wit was even made a guest pro. Oski’s arc says a lot about the company; he joined at 13, won the 2017 Vans Park Series World Championships, took the 2018 finale at home in Malmö, and skated the Tokyo Olympics for Sweden while staying on the same independent Malmö brand. Historic names include Hjalte Halberg, Kevin Rodrigues, Dane Brady, David Stenström, Jacob Ovgren (rider and graphic artist) and Alv himself, who skated in the early videos.

Boards, graphics and Big Boys

Polar graphics are unmistakable: Alv’s own drawings and paintings, Jacob Ovgren’s dark-humor illustrations and work from the AMTK collective, with the happy/sad face motif recurring across boards, apparel and collabs, plus running series like “Everything Is Normal”. Alongside standard popsicles, Polar keeps shaped decks in the line, such as the P9 and Dane Brady’s “Dane 1”. On construction, retailers report 100% Canadian hard-rock maple, though Polar itself doesn’t publicize which woodshop presses its boards. Then there are the Big Boy Jeans: heavyweight (~435 gsm) baggy denim Alv dreamed up while watching ’90s clips at a time when slim chinos ruled, and which ended up reshaping skate fashion industry-wide. Collabs back up the crossover appeal: Converse Cons footwear since 2014 (designed by Alv, later a Jack Purcell Pro collection), a ‘90s-inspired Carhartt WIP capsule with four artist decks, and sister footwear brand Last Resort AB.

Who it’s for

Polar suits skaters who want a premium deck with a genuine identity behind it: skater-owned and operated, art-house to the core, and still a functioning skateboard company rather than a fashion label. For the wider scene it belongs to, see our guide to European skate brands.

Videography

2022 Sounds Like You Guys Are Crushing It full-length
2018 We Blew It At Some Point full-length
2016 I Like It Here Inside My Mind, Don't Wake Me This Time full-length
2010 In Search of the Miraculous full-length

Team

Current

Aaron Herrington
Oskar Rozenberg
Nick Boserio
Paul Grund
Shin Sanbongi
Jamie Platt
Emile Laurent
Román González
Kiki Kakitani
Nathan Clancy
Ebou Sanyang
Dylan Mills
Robbin de Wit

Alumni

Hjalte Halberg
Kevin Rodrigues
Dane Brady
David Stenström
Jacob Ovgren
Pontus Alv

Chronology

Dated milestones for Polar, each with its source. It started in 2011 and is still running.

2000 Cliché signs Pontus Alv, bringing him back to Europe after his California years. ↗
2004 Alv quits Cliché after four years and moves back to Malmö. ↗
2011 Pontus Alv founds Polar in Malmö, after the run of videos he began in 2005. ↗
2012 No Complies, Wall Rides + Shuv Its changes what counts as a cool trick worldwide. ↗
2020 Alv and Sami Tolppi launch Last Resort AB, Polar's sister footwear brand. ↗
2024 Polar releases Everything Is Normal, the full-length directed by Sirus F Gahan. ↗

Riders in and out

2011 Pontus Alv arrives from Cliché Tired of being just Emerica's 'Euro team': "We always felt as if we were just some Eurotrash."
2012 Jerome Campbell arrives from Blueprint Skateboards Pontus Alv signed him as Polar Skate Co's first UK representative.

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In the media

Skate press and independent media coverage of Polar. These are external links; we did not write them.

Catch Up with Pontus Alv on all things Polar and Last Resort: "It's quite an open canvas." Slam City Skates 2020
Alv on Polar's creative process, the Big Boy pants and launching Last Resort.
Exploring Pontus Alv's Polar Dream Jenkem Mag 2016
Essay treating Polar's first full-length video as cinema rather than product promo.
The Pontus Alv Interview Jenkem Mag 2014
Alv on personal graphics, independence and the growing weight of European skateboarding.

Frequently asked questions

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