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


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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

Suzhou Spot Check

Big ass tongue.


Big ass mini hubba.


Big ass mini 4.

Need I say more? Who's coming to visit? Chipper, where you at??

Big Ass Pierced Tongue

Took a trip to Suzhou yesterday, a city about an hour away from Shanghai. Has some great skate spots and less of a bust factor than Shanghai. I stole these pictures from Johnny Tang's Facebook. So... go buy some Nike SB's.



mini big four.


sexy.


Thanks Tyler for the shirt hook up.


Illest thing ever. Big ass tongue shaped thing.


Hard as fuck to skate.