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Block Party

AleJ — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:42:36 +0000

Last week end I was in LiveStock, checking this out:

I’d never been there or even heard of it before (alright alright) so earlier today when I saw a couple of kids walking around with LiveStock bags, and mind you this was in Kits, I though the universe was sending me a message.
And a second ago I was checking www.vancouverisawesome.com, and look what’s going on:

Guess where I’ll be on September the 13th?
Especially if it looks like that:

But deeply I hope it will either not be that busy or only fairly short people will attend because I’m not exactly tall and I might have to spend the day on my toe. Which hurts.

DC King of Vancouver … some more

AleJ — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:04:06 +0000

Here is a video summary of the DC King of Vancouver

And a detail of the competition on Push.ca

DC King of Vancouver

AleJ — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:41:46 +0000

I heard of the skateboarding scene in Vancouver, and I was pretty curious to see it for myself. I thought those kids who have mountains to snowboard all winter must be pretty rad and fearless at taking ramps and rails.

I should mention that I don’t skateboard, in fact I have very little hands on experience. It’s not that I don’t want to, I begged for my first skateboard when I was about 9, my parents had no clue, obviously, they got me a cheap one and the wheels weren’t exactly rolling smoothly. There wasn’t a skate park where I lived, nor the right kind of concrete. I know I’m making excuses, when you really want something you overcome obstacles, I guess I didn’t really bother.

I love watching skateboarding nonetheless and I am fascinated by the culture that goes with it. So checking out the King of Vancouver competition at the Vancouver Skate Plaza, pure concrete all around us and the skytrain regularly passing by over our heads was pretty cool.

Some of the kids looked like they were no older than 12. My only regret: no girls.