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Ethan Fowler (opposite top)
spent more time on this mini
than most and floated large
ollies. Above touchdown
on a low bar, Ray Borbee
(left) 50-50s with ease. The
face (above) of skating's
future. The cattle drive
(right) starts here. Christian
"Chillum" Brox (below)
launches a tailgrab over the
Czech Republic. Tem Penny
(opposite) sticks shit all day
long, even this frontside
180 flip in England.
Portugal is a lot like Brazil, they have
a cool Golden Gate Bridge clone right
next to a Christo like in Rio de Janiero
so it's kind of like Rio de Francisco. By
chance we met a skater at the train sta
tion who clued us to same phone num
bers. We then met Nuño who took us
to three skateparks in one day. The
first was your traditional street deal
but the second and third were like
none ever seen: A perfect cement vert
ramp, a long quarter-pipe wall that
want to four feet of vert and all kinds
of crazy humpty jumptys. Lisbon is on
the beach so we all washed up for the
last time and headed out to hit Spain.
Madrid is pumping with skating. Luis
and Miguel kept their eyes on us and
took us to two new parks that were
built since the last time we were
there. All that was cool but there is one
place that must be murdered while in
Spain and that is the almighty Alco-
bendas. Words don't mean much when
you lay your wheels on that burgundy
concrete. We skated with Alex the local
and he flowed the lines to die for and
after all the corners were ground and
the decks beat to hell we cut for the
redundant stare-fest known as The
World Cup in Germany.
Titus has held the contest in Münster
for over ten years and it has turned
into a Woodstock-like deal where peo-
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