ONE Staff / October 18th, 2007 / Uncategorized
BLADE LIFE: Shanghai’d at SMP Skatepark

On October 11th I skated SMP Skatepark in Shanghai. I say I was “Shanghai’d” because I only got to do it for about an hour. But in that hour I not only scared away six American skateboarders (obviously there for an event or something), met three other cool local skateboard kids, showed the skateshop ONE magazine, and bladed with Taotao…

According to Taotao he is one of only 10 rollerbladers in Shanghai. His skates, new Remz with Kizer frames, are from Beijing—hundreds of miles away—the only place he could find freestyle rollerboots. Not only was Taotao the only rollerblader I met in China, he was one of the few locals I met who spoke English. Now we’re email buddies, and he wants me to come back to skate. Believe me, I want to skate there again, too.

And now for the park…

Transitions on transitions on transitions. Everywhere.

And ledges too. Most are marble.

More quarters with roll-ins and nipples.

Death is a giant tunnel with tons of vert, and a drainage pipe.

Where the drainage lets out the walls get tall. With even more vert.

Plenty of flowing minibowls to choose from.

And yet it is like that. Old dudes on older bikes, doing whatever they want to do, wherever they want to do it. Duh, this is China.

Shanghai, Taotao, we will be back.

All photos by EEKatpants

Discussion / BLADE LIFE: Shanghai’d at SMP Skatepark

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  • Lil sis - October 18th, 2007

    Dude, where’s my credits?

  • Tim Parker - October 18th, 2007

    Heaven?

  • Peek - October 18th, 2007

    That is sick!!

  • BorisG - October 18th, 2007

    Stockwell would hit it, haha.

    shanghai ftw!

  • Lars - October 19th, 2007

    Lol. Yeah. Stockwell would straight up murder anyone who challenges him in this park.

  • tiny elvis - October 19th, 2007

    my boner is huge man, im just sayin its big, thats all

  • tiny elvis - October 19th, 2007

    and i would pay to see a stockwell demo at this concrete buffet

  • SS - October 20th, 2007

    s0 yeah, who’s the white guy in the pic?

  • anthony - October 23rd, 2007

    oh my god

  • michael garlinghouse - October 29th, 2007

    that looks sooo fun.

  • W.Z - July 10th, 2008

    is there any age limits??

  • the inline kid - October 3rd, 2008

    hey im in shangers

    and im a bored rolller

    is it possible i could get taotaos email?

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