Eric Jensen had been staying in Nanaimo, and working at Switchback Longboards for the past while. I snagged a couple rad photos while we were chilling at Nanaimo’s Pioneer Skatepark for his last day in town.
Word on the street is Jensen recently tried to escape to California for the winter and got denied at the border. Poor dude. Looks like he’ll have to deal with the rain for the rest of the year!
Jensen rides for Comet Skateboards, Switchback Longboards, Caliber Trucks, and Volante Wheels.
The third annual Ukee days downhill event was hotter than you could imagine, but as always a great time. Three years ago I attended the first event, the shitvan was in all of its astrovan glory and loaded with children. The event was organized by a youth group, they had not anticipated anyone from too far out of town to show up. Between the switchback team, Les and the Rayne hazard whip and our crew from Victoria, they were pretty blow away. Fast forward a few years later and the downhill event seems completely dominated by out of towners, hell there was even a kid from Kelowna there. I found myself being handed a megaphone told I was announcing the rest of the day, while I’d never attempted this level of heckling, I found myself unable to resist. A standard pack race, a head to head slalom race and a slide comp were in order, Aiden won the mass start event, Lucas won the slalom, (which was a very odd event and I’m not sure what mattered more, luck or skill) and the hulking beast that is Lane jackart (I know I just mangled your name) destroyed the slide jam, and very nearly everyone else. Check out Dion’s pics.
Ryan Kadoranian makes a gnarly pit-maneuver on Nick Jean in the semi-finals. Ryan rides through unscathed, Nick eats hay.
There is no greater moment of terror than realizing you’ve just wiped out in front of Shaun Douglas.
Everyone trying to catch Aidan Lynds in the finals. Yes, Shaun is crashing.
The Britannia Classic was a pretty hectic race this year! Wet runs in the AM, patchy for the majority of the runs throughout the afternoon, and if you had enough stamina to skate all day then you’d probably get some dry runs in there at some point, too!
Britannia is the perfect example of good ‘ole fashioned BC racing. Great runs with the usual crews! It was awesome to see lots of youngins from Vic up for the race this year, too. Hopefully next year we get some footage of more Islander runs.
Riders getting shuttled back to the top. Strike usually lets people skitch on the Uhaul cause he doesn’t give a fuck and thinks it’s funny when people crash. Which is cool.
Bricin throwing prizes for kids.
You’ll find many types of people at Danger Bay. Folks watching the race, Medics, burnouts, “serious racers”, locals, partiers.. but mostly dudes just wanting to have a good time.
Obligatory skating photo. Can’t have just lurk shots, right?
Here is K-Rimes blasting through carnage corner with some homies hot on his tail.
Kurt Gallant getting the inside line. Dat ginger speed.
South Island Skate 