Amazing skating. A cruise planned for 1-2 hours turned into 2 days of skating. We met up with the boys from Ongoza (
www.ongozafilm.com) randomly here in Kelowna. We skated the garage with them until close to 2AM on friday, had a crew of 10 people riding the elevator and bombing. It was 3 separate groups who randomly met and sessioned the garage at once. Made lots of new friends. The second we pulled up to the garage the security drove in. So Craig (from Ongoza) was just like "Hey, you mind if we ride our skateboards in there?" "Nah, go ahead." Sweeeeeeeeeet!!!!!
Then today we just cruised on the big boards with those guys for a while, had a nice bbq, then some of the guys showed us an amazing, steep hill that is brand new paved and no development has started. So that means there will be no cars ever yet, no construction yet, no houses yet. And the curbs are slanted instead of the 90 degrees of death construction. Daniel (Ongoza) brought out the full leathers and bombed the thing after a few runs, hit close to 80km/h. It was insane.
One of our new buds Mark busted his precious board at the garage last night doing one too many boneless 180's. He was very sad. So to make him the happiest person ever, the guys at Ongoza presented him with a Kebbek Hairpin deck to replace his snapped Lush. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
These past couple days are what skating and longboarding are about. Meeting random people on wooden platforms of death and speed, and having amazing times together.
www.ongozafilm.com
www.ongoza.org