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Caption: four days of skateboarding in PUERTO RICO
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Caption: as a continuation
to the skate tour
that began in Miami
we made our way to
Puerto Rico for some
serious fun in the sun
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Caption: Along the magnificent shoreline lies
a concrete bowl built in memory of a
renowned Puerto Rican surfer named
Luigi. Every Sunday the locals fill it with
water for swimming, but all other days
you're able to skate it if it's not too slippery
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Caption: When we made our way into Old San Juan we came across what appeared to be some rugged terrain. But it turned out that everywhere we looked there was something to skate
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Caption: The skate scene in Puerto Rico is alive and well. Within every city were a handful of public parks and plazas that often had kids skateboarding in them. The cops don't seemed too stressed about the skating. Here a policeman watches a local tailsliding a perfect marble ledge.
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Caption: This is our tour guide Pito and I skating
the plaza close to where we stayed
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Caption: Aside from working with a photographer and videographer during our trip to Miami and Puerto Rico, we had to do one demo in a town named Patillas. It rained, but despite how rainy it is in PR, the heat dries everything up quickly.
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Caption: while things dried up everyone skated
an abandoned building nearby
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Caption: Saturday evening's demo was a success so we were able to make the most of our Sunday. If you skate, you know that Sunday's are the best day to shred so one of the locals took us to a suburb of San Juan and showed us some lesser known spots. Alberto does a pivot grind fakie while the media documents.
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Caption: Alberto even showed us spots that hadn't been skated before. This is every skater's dream...to be the first to get a trick at a new spot. Tommy sizes up this bump to wall while Joe and Dave figure out the best angles.
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Caption: To see what
went down at
these spots and
more, along with
any other hi-jinx with
Tommy Sandoval, Ron
Whaley, Nestor Judkins,
Caswell Berry, and myself,
you're gonna have to hit up the
following websites for the goods
Go to: www.kruxtrucks.com and
www.transworldskateboarding.com
Thanks to our friends in Puerto Rico for showing us around, and to Transworld SKATEboarding magazine for sending out Dave Chami to shoot the tour article.
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Caption: 🌴🌅🌴
