Tuesday I went to the All City Showdown which is the completion of a video contest put on by 35th North Skateshop where teams of 4 (3 skaters and 1 filmer) get 8 hours to film skating spots around town. Winners teams and individuals get picked and the video gets put together and shown. The winners get revealed for the first time at the premier of the video.
This year, for me, was inspiring. Not only was the skating in the video super good (pro level in a lot of cases) but the crowd that filled up El Corazone to watch it was as well. Skateboarding is alive and well in Seattle! A great time with old friends and new.
When the DVD is out I recommend you get your mitts on one.
Back at the start of July a select group of idiots undertook a trip to the northern German city of Hamburg. Meticulously planned until we started drinking at 5am in the airport it nevertheless was a skate trip filled with all the right ingredients – namely beer, meat and odd concrete parks.
We got rained on, experienced the worse music in a skatepark ever, hit a skate film premiere, had free beer and sausages courtesy of the skateshop next to the hostel, saw WW2 flak tower relics, realised the Germans party like its the apocalypse, played singstar, tortured ourselves in a massage chair, skated concrete odditys and above all else had a ridiculous amount of fun. Cos thats what you do isn’t it.
Video footage here, apologies for poor quality but I had to get it under 500megs to upload it. Just drink some Von Raven if you can find it and it’ll all look fine.
