andy

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:33:37 +0800

I went to that. I still skate despite being 30+ now. Willy Santos was there, such a nice guy too. And Rune Glifberg and Bucky Lasek. People skating in the early 90's may remember Neal Hendrix doing the Jackass thing on the Newdeal videos way before the latest crop of 'gnarly dudes'. Specifically eating sh*t and jumping in the open sewer. Johhny Tang won the 'Amateur' street comp. Odd since I belive he's 'Pro' for Gift. The fact that I ride his name model deck would seem to back that up. I think that comp was more 'local' than 'am'. The park is amazing but, like the article says, is miles away. It's been 8 months since I decided to take up skating again and this was my first trip there - toooooo far. And no public transport too. They put on a shuttle bus at the end of the day, to get back to Jiangwan Town station. But two shuttle buses going back and forth on a major event day with hundreds (maybe a slight exagerration there) of people in attendance - work it out. We all left at the same time. It's nice to sit up top of the ramp and look around - fields and the lake, clean(er) air. Soon the planners here will get the order right - access and then site.

supertramp

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:41:23 +0800

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HJ06Ae01.html

Shanghaiist: Stoked to be at the Showdown

andy

supertramp