Monday, May 30, 2011

Paris fun
















Whenever there's some type of terrain that you think could and should be awesome to skate but there are just too many problems with it such as cracks, cars, not enough runway, too many people, water, security guards kicking you out, etc, that spot is still fully skateable for Dan. So this strange architecture statue looks awesome and like it should be skated by all, but it had all of the above mentioned issues and then some. We saw a picture of it online while in Paris, so we headed off one day to find it. Upon finding it, I saw hundreds of people swarming this little corner on a 5 street intersection with this crazy statue camping right in the middle of it all. I saw it, thought, "that would be rad to skate, but..." then Dan said, "yeah, let's skate it!" With no hesitation, he jumped on his board and started riding all over it. I thought for sure we'd get kicked out, get run over by a car, hit a pedestrian, fall in the death trap underneath to a watery grave, and be too stressed to film much. But Dan was undeterred by any of these thoughts and rode all over the statue. With cars threatening to run him over, Dan ran threw the street to get more speed to rock to fakie on the top with a tiny little sidewalk runway. His board even fell in the water, but he still didn't care, he just kept skating. That's right people, Dan's not effing around with this ess any more. And if you can't handle that, you best be getting the aitch out of dodge, dodge being this blog, I guess. Dan, caring less if his board was all wet, kept skating the statue, and we ended up with some good footage of him skating this statue. Then right next to the spot, we saw Paris' Statue of Liberty. All in a Paris day's fun...

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