Venice of the East: SUZHOU

Since the deadline for the Gift Skateboards video is coming up soon, we took a trip to Suzhou for the weekend to get some stuff done. Suzhou used to be a river/canal city, and you could get around by getting water taxis, people just paddling canoes around town. The city's huge now, but still slightly more traditional than Shanghai and Shenzhen are. The skatespots in Suzhou are too many, mostly never been skated before.


Shanghai railway station, packeddddd.


Guess where we ate.


The whole underside of the bridge is a huge long television that plays shit you see in the IMAX theaters.


weeee, lights


more


This shopping center area contains more skatespots than Delaware has to offer in its whole state.

so purrrty


Jay Meador and his kickflizzer


beamer


This club was pretty happenin. Except drinks were super expensive, so we got drunk outside before staying here till 4am. What's up with the chandeliers?


Suzhou cuisine


canooodaling


renaissance man


shoulder cam steeze


power stall

Skatespot Wednesday

Nanpu Bridge. This spot is epic: fatty flatbars, wallrides, wallies, 6 stair. Link em up how you wish. All this, under a bridge. No bust and best of all.... there aren't a million people walking around getting in your way.


Johnny and his brother doing some sweepage.


The scenery is sick too. The Nanpu bridge connects Shanghai east and west parts: Puxi and Pudong.


walllll rides


Jay - wallie gap over sidewalk.

15 Feet of Epicness

Jay Meador 5-0 grizzzle dizzle from Tommy Zhao on Vimeo.

This is the biggest wall at SMP. 15ft. Jay mans up. He also smiths the beast but you'll have to wait for that footy.

Five-0 Switch Crook?!?!??!?!

Peep the footy.

Vimeo Link: http://vimeo.com/5038910

Backside Flippppers

Vimeo Link: http://www.vimeo.com/5013790

New VidClips for the Week

VIDEO LINK HERE.

This is the Quiksilver miniramp that Brian has stored in some warehouse in the middle of fucking nowhere in Shanghai. Probably the most perfect mini I ever skated, but I suck at mini anyway.



VIDEO LINK HERE.

This is a short clip of us just skating to LP. Hollaaa

I put the link up under the videos just in case they don't work right in the States... or in China, haha.

First Try Fridays on a Monday

A World of Midgets

There are a lot of small people here in China. This leads to small stairsets which leads to even smaller handrails. For small people like me... it's the shit.



It's not really that small.... actually nah... it's a pretty fucking low handrail.

Deep in your Puxi

A little clip from our visit to this bowl deep in Puxi.

SMP Skatepark

New vidclip for work featuring Jay Meador and Nate Mettler at the SMP Skatepark.