Sleep? USWA?

A week ago USWA started and what a weekend it was! It started Thursday afternoon and since then we skated 4-6 hours a day, four days in a row! We also drank beer for 6 hours a day and I slept 4 hours every night so the preparation for the contest was solid. Someone, let’s call him “Sexy boy!” also incorporated a couple hours of sex in there every night which was extracted from the hours of sleep. “Sexy boy!” is now one of my heroes because he still killed it in the Spine-mini and the Park, if people only knew, he would have definitely won both contests! But enough about “Sexy boy!” back to the more serious part of the weekend, the USWA park contest. The USWA, Urban Sports Week Amsterdam was mainly at museum plein with two skate parks, a nice spine mini ramp and the craziest two dirt jumps for the BMX-riders! 

Pictures stolen from Facebook Thijs Tel, Bachir and myself

Tom Selbeck said it was really easy and than he showed me how it's done with a big 360!!!                              photo: dooley

Thursday was practice and registration, Friday was the qualification and surprisingly I made it to the finals for Sunday???? To be honest I was actually really happy about it because I wanted to skate the park all by myself and this is only possible during the 45 seconds run in the contest. The park is amazing and all the competitors were killing it! The vibe was good and everybody juiced each other to skate better and so we did!

All the skaters were amazing, the youngsters are always excited and juiced to skate! In this case, all the skaters were youngsters compared to me because the MC reminded everybody that I was the oldest competitor in the contest so it did not matter what I did, I was old and it was a fucking miracle I could still skate! So I did and it was great!

Can't go wrong with swim shorts                                                                                                                      photo: Thijs Tel

jep                                                                                                                                                                       photo: Thijs Tel

The best thing was to skate with all the boys and get energy from them to skate even better. I got so many props, high fives, and even hugs because my run was pretty good, gotta love them. What made the weekend even better was seeing every skater skating with a big smile and encourage each other to skate better and give props! Even the first generation skaters came to watch the contest and screamed their hearts out when Jelle Briggeman did his crazy front flip and Roman Abrate did his double flat spin (best trick!). 

Jaro Frijn at the spine mini ramp flying high                                                                                                       photo: Thijs Tel

Jelle just grinding                                                                             photo: Thijs Tel

Jeremy Suarez with a stylish spin                                                      photo: Thijs Tel

Sem is High!                                                                                                                                                       photo: Thijs Tel

                           Photo: RhoeLLL

Skating with this bunch was so much fun, pro-skaters, European-champions, Pro-freestyle winners, amateurs, kids and Remix who killed the spine-mini! This weekend we were one big happy family and I believe we already were a family or even better friends who love skating, family by skating.

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