Before leaving the place.

After a wet morning, the sun came out. Juli, our filmer, was really glad to feel the sun again.

Mathieu Dupuy sitting at a spot we found right as we reached civilisation again. It’s a children’s park with a fun little flatbar to bank.

Some tricks and lines got nailed. Here’s Nick Fiorinni, front feeble transfer avoiding the legs of the swinging kids.

We found this spider somewhere I don’t remember. You can’t really tell on the photo but it was quite a fatty.

Rain was on and off, so we decided to fix a local spot under a bridge, which would look really nice on a photo.

It worked. Time to skate it.

Some tricks were done, kickflip fakie if I’m not mistaken. But before I could settle up cops came for the third time and we were kick out for good. Shame. You can see a little piece of the cop car on the left.

So time for BBQing. We went to a local skatepark, where some challenges were tackled, benihana finger flips – shit like that. There was a football match at the stadium right beside the park and the streets were full of cops. That’s Jan setting up and Mathieu checking for cops. We finally got busted for the BBQ, but the food was almost over anyway.

While waiting for everyone to wake up, met this hunter seeking shelter from the pissing rain. Whilst never letting go of his cigar, he said it was going to rain for a long time, probably days.

Just a nice old picture in the wall.

When everyone was kind of awake, drinking coffee at the bar, Jean Marie (TM) started to organize the challenges and a peculiar shopping list.

Plenty of time to waste, so I went for another little walk around the house. Downstairs there was a room with huge machinery, old but still fully working, which used the energy of the river to turn the gears and crush tonnes of apples to produce ‘Sidra’.

A window in the ground and the river running underneath. Water level was rising every minute from the amount of  rain falling.

Here’s the crew eating behind Jart’s factory, where there was a little corridor under a roof, where we gathered to skate a bit.

Since we had no ball with us, Sergio Muñoz and Iván Rivado created one from cardboard and tape. Sergio told me he used to do it in school whenever the teacher confiscated their ball. Clever.

In the meantime, Mathieu was tailoring two pairs of pants to get the two tone ones needed for the Garret Hill challenge. Good job Mathieu!

Jan Kliewer filming his lines without wheels. I actually thought this challenge would be harder, or maybe it’s just that they guys are too skilled. In any case, mental note: lines with only 1 truck next year – these fuckers did it too easy.

Iván Rivado took the challenge of riding a board with trucks set up the wrong way round. This one was a bitch actually, after he landed it he was fully soaked in sweat.

After the team ended the skating it was time for footballey, using the manny pad as an improvised net.

Oh, and Sergio got the Maradonna challenge easily as well, left foot, right foot, left knee, right knee, left shoulder, right shoulder, head.