Whatever it is, it shows that no matter how gifted you are, you aren’t always going to be marketable, and that’s exactly why trying to be a “professional skateboarder” is such a gamble!

Anyway, here are the clips I was watching when I was thinking about this. I’m sure he’ll find a new board sponsor soon though…

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Merry Christmas!

Willow’s part from Almost’s 5 Incher.

Youness’ part from Almost’s 5 Incher.

Madars’ Where EU At part from DC.

Josef Scott Jatta’s Where EU At part from DC.

Tim Zom’s part from the Bombaklats Promo video.

Nassim’s part from the Bombaklats Promo Video.

Mark Frölich’s part from Jart’s All You Need video.

Bastien Salabanzi’s part from Jart’s All You Need video.

Chris Pfanner’s Anti Hero pro part.

Jesus’ part from Pretty Sweet (we obviously can’t host it but you can buy it! On iTunes or at your local skateshop now!)

Check out the trailer for Jart’s latest offering, dropping later this month and featuring Bastien Salabanzi, Iván Rivado, Mark Frölich, Fernan Origel, Denny Pham, Cian Eades & David Lougedo. Should be a banger!

Jart Demo at Skatehalle Berlin from skatehalle berlin on Vimeo.

I decided to shoot some evidence for the smallest/biggest bags of the trip. This was the smallest, which might not seem too small but I tell you he didn’t even use ¾ of its space.

Ricky, on the other hand, got the biggest one – but still not as big as Antiz rider Julian Dykmans’ one though.

I think we waited there for 3 and half hours.

After finally leaving the motel, we stopped half an hour later to eat in a gas station. After eating, the TM decided it was the perfect time to start a fire the old school way. Obviously, the strong wind blocked his intentions. But hey, on those 3 hour gas station stop we saw some Ferraris coming from a race or event, or whatever. How nice.

Jan, in a random stop to wait the van to catch up.

And we made it to Cologne. Die Fantastisch Dom.

Rain was present again, so it was time to call it the end of trip. One last photo before the end.

We went to an industrial area looking for some trash to build a spot and get some more points.

A door I liked in an industrial area.

Some wooden pieces from a container, and over a little corner grass gap.

Mathieu did this nice fs 180 lateshuv, more than the spot and the area certainly deserved.

And then someone else wanted to try the Big Mac challenge again so we headed to another McDonalds. I think it was Jean Marie. He never got further than the 3rd burger.

I don’t know why people claim so much they hate fast-food, because wherever I see one of these places they are always full of people of all ages and all types. Like this one in Bordeaux. Bunch of hypocrites. In any case, a hypocrite’s nice ass is a a nice ass after all. Sergio knows the drill.

We found the only fun spot of the day when we left McDonalds, and thanks to eagle eye Nick. This set of mellow and small stairs got everyone hyped to do the skiing-down-stairs challenge. Nick even did it backwards.

Mathieu opted for a more classic style.

Travellers crossing paths with more travellers. Highways don’t care about class or colour, it’s a great equaliser.

Apples are good. No, trendy weirdo, I don’t mean “that” expensive Apple you’re mental-jerking-off to. They can be found anywhere if you have open eyes.

Mathieu is the king of survival. He ate naturally hunted apple & cherry salads, washed in the river and only used 1 single t-shirt in the whole trip – without complaining once.

Ricky looked a bit confused, and was having trouble reaching the scooter just 2 metres away.

After several tries, he landed it. I’d like to say it was amazing, but it wasn’t. It was quite a good piece of reputation destruction. Ricky will never be the same after that.

Later on we stopped in a supermarket to get some food. I found a strange old lady feeding pigeons but she left as soon as she saw my camera.

It was a very long stop. This was probably one hour later the previous photo, still in the parking lot.

We headed to Filarmonic (I think that’s the name) where there was this rail. Nick and Rick wanted to do the 10 tricks on a rail challenge. Rain was threatening again, so they both went for it straight away. We also got kicked out, but Nick was able to land his 10^th trick, even with two women trying to block the run up.

Then we went to this famous spot of the city, where nobody felt like skating.

The place is quite nice though, there are always all kinds of people looking at things, and I always wonder what they are looking at.

We also met Benjamin Garcia, the local talent and really mellow guy.  I tried to share my (literally) 3 words of French with him, but from then on he spoke to me in French, really fast. I had no idea what he was talking about, and even if I tried to tell him to speak in English, he kept answering me in French, but it was actually fun figuring out what he was trying to say. We shot a photo of him switch hardflipping a set of stairs for his Check.

The night brought Monsieur Sebastien Daurel aussi, and I enjoyed beers and dinner with him. After that he came along with us to a McDonalds, Ricky felt like trying to eat 10 Big Macs.

We told him he didn’t have to eat them in a row, he had a whole day to do it. But he insisted he could do it. He didn’t break the 4^th Big Mac barrier, but was funny to see his face.