Learning to Slide

While at camp a bit of a skate crew started to emerge! Sparked through the find off a sweet oldschool banana board and the purchase of some gnarly hard sliding wheels, we started to hunger our days off as they finally had a purpose! The first initial slide session was with Shaunpaul and our main man Mel from Canada, held in the small town of Crofton, BC. We found the steepest hill with the smoothest surface that we could and took to it. The first sensation of ‘sliding’ was the coolest feeling as we had been used to just bombing a hill as fast as you can and hope to not get the speed wobbles (too gnarly!). So to actually start sliding on your board was super sik times! The three of us were all ecstatic, learning and teaching each other the ways of the slide. As we got better and braver the slides got faster and bigger and we started to mix it up. 180s, backside, frontside, corners, carparks, one hand, two hands 20 feet, 30 feet, 50 feet! We made our own gloves to slide with, made with chopping board cut and glued onto gardening gloves. This was necessary to ensure a safe and smooth ride. Through-out the summer on our days off from camp, we would do little missions to the nearby towns and cities on Vancouver Island to find what they had to offer in terms of hills, carparks and ruckas! We were joined by a few others on our little skate escapades and would try document it as much of it as we could. Having the skate crew at camp made the summer just that much freakin cooler! These were easily some of the best times at camp! Thanks lads.

The Three Shnapadees "Admired By You"

An original hit by The Three Shnapadees, filmed and recorded in Crofton, B.C, Canada by Heine Records Inc. What happens when a girl who already has a boyfriend starts to like you? The Three Shnapadees explain, as a friend of theirs struggled with this problem at camp. Wierd, I know.

Vancouver Aquarium

Right in the middle of our time at camp we had 3 days off. So Shaunpaul left the Vancouver Island and checked out a bit of what Vancouver had to offer. Vancouver is a beautiful city located on the waters edge with outstanding mountains surrounding its presence. After having a look downtown, biking around stanley park, and watching one of the worlds best fireworks competitions Shaunpaul thought they'd hit up the Vancouver Aquarium. Their good friend Aaron from New Zealand happened to be in town at the time, so it was a good chance to catch up and chill with our main man. This aquarium was mint! Stoked on it.

Little Escapades

Wallmart. A freakin HUGE big store that has everything you want!, everthing you need!, you can get it all at wall mart! Theres lots of crazy stuff that happens in this store! Its like NZ's version of the Warehouse but suped-up on steroids. Everything is super not expensive and the sizings are huge! It has Supermarkets, Workshops for your car, gardening sections, massive entertainment sections and even sit down resturants like Starbucks and McDonalds in them! We played hide and go seek in this place it is so big! You get tired walking in this place. Dude.

The old classic...see how far you can get into a hotel without being caught. This Hotel was called the Empress, and was a real nice older style pad that overlooked the harbor in Victoria, located on Vancouver Island, B.C, Canada. Good mates=good times.

Half Ass

Some pretty big gags that are pulled in this vid. Watch out.

Skating up some Ruckas

One of our main spots to skate were the many hills and carparks offered in Victoria, only an hour away from camp. The crew would throw their boards in the boot of Mels Beamer and he’d boost us out in search of some hidden treasure ready to be ripped. After finding a couple of 5 to 6 storied jems that we wanted to skate down, the problem was dodging and dealing with security that would wait in unmarked or hidden cars in the carparks. We would sneak up the stairs after going around the backside of the parkade, making as little sound possible until we were all at the top. Bombing these carparks was so fun!! Carving round the curling bends and never ending slopes was a great sensation. 6 levels of smooth concrete met with a bunch of good mates laughing, yahooing and tearing down them, was killer times!! The security dudes however could obviously hear, if not see us and soon came to spoil our fun. We encountered several security guards all who were very unique individuals, with fairly soft standings that by playing a bit of the naïve New Zealand card we managed to get away unscathed. Ha. After exploring most of the carparks in the area we decided to mix things up and try something out there and new. Some of the things on the list were sketching anything we could get our hands on (Sketching: Skating behind while holding onto a moving object). This included things like cars, tour buses, kabuki cab bike rider dudes etc. This was rad! We had heaps of fun on our long boards checking out Victoria, skated a lot of places and caused a lot of harmless ruckas! Good times!

Little Gags

With Shaunpauls unique blend and mix of characters it was always inevitable that some stupid, weird little gags would evolve from somewhere. Camp was full of new experiences for Shaunpaul, so everything was a little more exciting to them than most people.

There were bunch of rad Brazilians who would often pronounce words in English slightly different than most. This was cool, and we had many fun times mixing our words and playing with different cultures and things. One of the coolest things about camp was the fact that there were so many people from different countries that you got to meet, find out about and get to know.