Monday, August 25, 2008

sick shit straight outta munich and austria

Allright, finally I was motivated enough to publish a post. There is still a lot of more stuff to upload, so the next days you will see a video from munich, a video from mainly my homeramp (viet anh and me) and the pictures from the sick ass FALLEN RIDE THE SKY premiere where Jamie Thomas, Chris Cole, Slash, Tommy Sandoval were on the spot. I will tell you more about that later. These pictures are from a trip to munich and Austria I did a while back. Maybe 4 weeks, it was in the end of july when the summer break was ending. I went there alone since Viet anh could not affort it. I stayed at the little flat of my aunt's boyfriend. The first day we just went to the Biergarten (like almost every night). Biergartens are really great because people of all ages go there to eat and drink bear. Groups of people who drank something are way more enjoiable than groups in the city. The first real day I took a train to Austria. The first park I went to was in Wörgl and was already pretty good. To me, a skatepark on a clean big river in front of those huge mountains is too idyllic (allright, sorry for all the wrong spelling), but the skatepark was nice. I just stayed there for about an hour and left with the guy on the airwalk and bsindy picture to brixlegg. Brixlegg is the park where all the pictures besides Daniels (The dreadlock guy I met later) are taken. I went there twice, the second time with Daniel who I met in munich a day after my first visit to Brixlegg. Confusing, I know. So, I guess I do not have to talk about the park a lot because you just have to look at it to know how a skatepark should look like! Great bowl with different heights, a variety of street obstacels and creative ideas like the water gap! The park in munich was smaller, but great too. You can see it in the video I am gonna upload the next days. That is where I met Dani. I spent the following 3 days with him. At Brixlegg we grilled and I ate some meat (what I usally don't do). Some beer and some food. Great. What sucked that we put so much of this dry grass in the fire, that the whole skatepark was full of smoke. Then the locals complained and gave us some of their coal. Very nice locals, by the way. The last day I went to Daniels local miniramp. That is where he does the bs boneless. I sucked very hard since I was skating 3 days in a row (and a lot every day), but Daniel totally killed it with a mix out of funny/oldschool stuff, some long grinds and "stunts" like the boneless things or a fs ollie over the channel (see it in the video). All in all, a great trip, new friends, new spots, new experiences, a long train journey back and unwashed hair with was hard to comb after. What more can you wish for. And sorry that I did not upload pictures of Wörgl, maybe another day. Äh, the wood park and the concrete are both brixlegg, I hope you understood that. And the opening picture was in munich, I totally love that picture.