Son, Get Down!

So here I am skating in Paris. That's right kids, jonny's been all over the place. This should make you respect me more, the fact that my wheels have touched foreign soil. So I was in Geneva for an internship for a couple months, and Dave and his wife are currently in Paris on and internship as well. We were able to meet up once in Geneva and twice in Paris while I was there, and rest assured, we shredded. We reserved the entire Saturday to skate, but Mother Nature turned her back on us this day and dumped water all over the city. But fortunately enough for us, Dave and his wife Lauren had been street wanderers and homeless for like 3 weeks when they first went to Paris, and Dave had been able to scope out a bunch of skate spots while street wandering. One of the spots was this covered wallride spot, a perfect spot for a rainy day. And we even convinced Lauren to come with us to hang out and take pictures. So it was a family outing in the slums of the city. Getting to the spot requires pretending like you're a sardine on the metro along with thousands of other people and not making eye contact with any other passengers. Not a hefty price to pay to skate such a fun spot. Besides the thick cracks and human feces you have to maneuver through, this is an awesome spot to skate. After skating this spot for a while, we called up this guy Jean Marc that we had met a couple days before. Jean Marc is 35 and just started skating, so you've got to take your hat off to him. He refuses to step on his skateboard unless he's protected, including a red helmet and wrist guards. He's a chain smoker and literally asked every person that walked by for a cigarette, even the colony of bums that lived under the bridge where we were skating. That has nothing to do with this picture, but it was fun skating with him... Fun in Paris
Hart-breaker, Wallride. Photo: Lauren Cooper