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.
I know it’s been a while but it’s been nice out and skating takes some precedent over typing on the computer. This is the second day of our trip where we mainly skated at the Lincoln City skatepark. I still think I could do a better job on the rendering of the video but I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
We may not be the best skaters but we are having a hell of a lot of fun. The stupid road rashed kid belly boarding the snake run seems to be in more videos than just ours. Enjoy!
For those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere, June 21 marks the day of the year with the most daylight. Skateboarders have officially claimed this day as their own holiday and named it Go Skateboarding Day. Even for the lucky bastards that can go skateboarding every day, June 21st should be considered a special day– a day to skate a new spot, skate with different people, and make new friends. Basically a day to do something special and/or memorable. We like to celebrate the holiday every year by taking a mini road trip to a place we haven’t skated yet. The weather cooperated, work schedules open wide, and we charged forth.
We loaded up the van and set off for Whidbey Island to skate the Oak Harbor park. It’s another top notch Dreamland Skateparks creation. Although completed well over a year ago, it has been all but closed to the general public due to its location in a military housing neighborhood. The security has let up recently and we decided to give it a go. We were able to skate all day without incident and left when it got dark. Oak Harbor is one of those parks that is so good that you keep riding well past the point where you know you should stop. If you don’t leave, you’ll find a reason to go back in for more. We got more than we could have hoped for and are fortunate to have the memories of another epic Go Skateboarding Day to think back on from time to time. Here are a few photos from GSD 2011. Enjoy!
