A room in Paris, filled with the smell of kush as well as Jason Dill, Ben Kadow und Sage Elsesser. Also in the room, David Turakiewicz – our foreign correspondent – to get the favorites from the Fucking Awesome man himself.
What an experience! We have been flirting with the idea of going to the rough island in the North Atlantic for some time, but eventually never dared to go due to fear of rain, lack of spots and “bad vibes”. This time we pulled through and were punished for roaming around – all other destinations in reach already had been scoured.
As the Iriedaily-family packs up in Berlin to follow their friends invitation to Athens for a little skateboard-riding, hundreds of people in Turkey are getting onto boats, having the same destination in mind. A tragic gap between two realities. In contrast to the Irie-guys they don’t know how long they’ll stay or if they see their home ever again. If everything turns out as planned, there is no turning back.
Rob Wootton doesn’t care whether Kevin Long wears the dresses of his wife or how old Jerry Hsu was when he got on the tourbus with the Enjoy veterans for the first time. Everything one needs to know about a skateboarder comes from his footage.
When I contacted Pontus via Facetime he first showed me around the Polar headquarter. It’s gotten bigger than what it was, they now got two bunks, a shower and a kitchen to offer the teamriders a small place to sleep for their visits.