Here’s a little edit Aristide Bruchon made of Blaze’s recent Wake’n Bake tour. It features Florentin Marfaing, Jp Villa (killing it!), Sandro Bertolucci, Matisse Banc, Greg Marley Laufersweiler, Stéphane Giret, Nosa Isterwat, Benoit Stevenot, Andrew White skating the streets of Barcelona, Zaragoza, San Sebastian, Bayonne, Toulouse, Amsterdam.

Nonetheless, Mathieu Dupuy and Jean Marie decided to get some points for the team exchanging his morning warm shower for an icy bath in the river.

Our asses were itching to move along and try to find something to skate, so we ended up here whilst Nick Fiorinni tried a line in the rain.

And that’s the line. Nick Fiorinni, wet manny to manny to some extra stairs on a church. In fact it looked like a random building, but the big cross on top of the roof gave us some clues.

Yeh dawg.

Tapas. These are different from the southern Spanish ones. They are more expensive and they don’t come free when you ask for a beer. But they are delicious in my opinion, and worth a few euros.

After a few calls we were able to get to this indoor park, “La Plaza”. It’s in between San Sebastian and Hondarribia, and Álvaro (the owner) made our day by leaving everything he was doing that day behind and open the place for us. Thanks Álvaro.

Nick Fiorinni, backside nosebluntslide.

Nick again, this time nollie heelflipping to noseslide. Mathieu, Rick and Nick pretty much landed every possible trick there.

Ricky Webb, fakie ollie fakie five-0.

Ricky again, switch flip front board.

And that’s Ricky too, underneath all that crap we put on him when his jet lag payed the bill.

One last trick from Sergio Muñoz, before leaving the place. Backside nosegrind backside nollie flip out. Thanks for the hooking us up, Álvaro!

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.