Shanghai Spots

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Shanghai Spots

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THE CENTER: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SPOT

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 …

Words With Jay Meador: Shanghai’s OG Spot Hunter

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 …