All things skateboarding in Shanghai
Q. & A.: Vadim Shtreker on Skateboarding and his Accident Intro by Winston Interview by Manny Lemire I think I bumped into Vadim around 2016. I went over to my buddy Max’s house and Vadim was chilling there. He didn’t talk to me much then, but we still ended up skating People’s Square [in Shanghai] …
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Words by: Erik Thorbeck Edited by: Emmanuel Lemire Background Anyone paying attention to Thrasher in the past year will have no doubt noticed an increase in footage coming out of Portugal, and Lisbon in particular. It seems this southern European paradise had long been overlooked in favour of its Spanish heavyweight neighbour. Needless to say, …
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Intro 前言 One of Shenzhen’s true OGs, Eric Lai is best known as the founder of Vagabond Skateboards, the first team manager of Converse’s China Skateboarding team, the founder and editor-in-chief of Wandering Magazine, and most recently, the owner and developer of a soon-to-be-finished indoor skatepark in Shenzhen. 作为深圳真正的OG之一，赖科最为人所知的身份是Vagabond Skateboards的主理人、匡威中国滑板团队的第一位经理、杂志《Wandering》的创始人和主编，以及最近深圳一个即将完工的室内滑板公园的所有者和开发者。 Shenzhen – The Early Days …
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By Touie Li It was an afternoon in early July. A group of “alleycats” were on their bicycles cruising through the streets of downtown Shanghai. They were riding without a fixed route. To an outside observer it might have looked like a competition, but for those participating, it didn’t have that competitive vibe at all. …
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BOSS XIE – 采访 By Emmanuel “Manny” Lemire Avenue and son的 兄弟姐妹们 爱你们 Peace Photos of Boss from Tommy Zhao Boss Xie was born and raised in Shanghai. He started skating in the early 2000s, and from 2007-2015, he was sponsored by Nike. He is currently sponsored by Lining. Besides skating professionally, Boss is also …
上海初代滑板地形 ——“五卅广场”，本土街头滑板文化的开端 By Emmanuel Lemire, Touie Li, and Erik Thorbeck Intro 序言 Spots come and go. That phenomenon feels especially familiar in Shanghai – a city with more than 25 million where things are constantly getting built and destroyed. New construction sometimes means new skate spots. Binjiang was a blessing. It can also mean saying …
Tommy Zhao is a battery. Everyday he wakes up fully-charged and everyday he depletes himself by whatever means necessary. He’ll do whatever it takes, whether it be riding his bike to work; skating Binjiang, climbing rocks in Zhejiang, and traveling to remote parts of China to film, produce, and edit one of the best (if …
Dan Leung with a backside smith grind on one of the Center’s tall ledges. Photo – Tommy Zhao By Emmanuel Lemire Edited by Erik Thorbeck Photos by Tommy Zhao & Qiu Zhixiang What is the Center? The Center is a skate spot located in the Jing’an district of Shanghai. It was built in 2004. The …
A little background on Jay. He moved to China in 2004 to study Chinese at a university in Xiamen. After a semester there, he moved back to the US, but in 2007 he was back in Shanghai skating and studying Chinese. Jay lived in Shanghai from 2007 – 2018. During that time, he filmed a …
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By Emmanuel Lemire Intro For anyone skateboarding in China, it is hard to miss the explosion of private skateparks across the country in recent years. In Shanghai, private parks outnumber public ones. By conservative estimates, Shanghai has 5 private parks and 4 public ones. Add to this a new park that More Skatepark is in …
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