A couple of weeks ago I had to drive to Saldanha for my niece’s christening. I asked Loucas if he would join me for some company and a skate and he happily obliged. Good man. I was keen to show him some of the spots that we used to skate growing up, and some spots that we didn’t skate, because we had no talent.
The first spot we hit up was the hull of an abandoned boat in the harbour. Because of its bright yellow colour shooting photos was a lot of fun, even though your eyes would start to bleed after staring directly at it for too long.
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| Loucas Polydorou - Tail sliding the submarine |
The next stop was an abandoned water reservoir on top of the “koppie”. The spot is so crusty; no run up, no landing and it’s like skating on grip tape (if your wheels were also made of grip tape). Loucas managed to pop a nice lofty ollie complete with JP du Preez sunglasses on.
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| Loucas Polydorou - Ollie |
Finally we went to check out the newly built skate park in Langebaan. The park’s design is lacking to say the least. There are no definite lines to flow and is definitely not what the kids in the area needs. Well, at least they have a park. Loucas killed the park, while I did 50-50’s on the lowest of the low curbs. Sorry, no photos of them.
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| Loucas Polydorou - Back Side Smith |
All in all it was a good little trip, did some good skating and had a good time. Makes me want to go check out other small towns, sure every town has something interesting to skate. And if there’s nothing to skate, at least we can cross off another town where someone told us “Boetman, jy gaan jou nek breek met daai ding.”
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