Skating in Switzerland: Trip, Contest (Lausanne 2010)
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Switzerland LINEmedia 2010 Trip
Around mid July i got a called from Blake Bird asking me if i wanted to go out to Lausanne to go skate the new bowl contest in September. Immediately i was onboard. I had been Switzerland once before and it is a beautiful country with some incredible architecture to skate. So along with Joey Egan and Leon Humphries we organised to stay with Stephan De Freitas in Geneva for a week.
Firstly, many thanks to Stephan and his friends for making our stay an unforgettable experience. We skated and chilled in Geneva for the first two days of our trip before driving up through Switzerlands beautiful country side to Lausanne. The bowl is situated only 50 metres from lake Geneva which makes it the most idilic skatepark ive ever had the pleasure of going to.
The competition itself was amazing. They had some of the most insane street course rails i have ever seen in my life, not to mention a vert half pipe at the bottom of the course too, which Joey Egan took pleasure in spinning the life out of. Without a doubt top three of the best contests ive attended in terms of skating, chilling and overall atmosphere.
So we got back from Lausanne exhausted and feeling pretty hungover and blurry eyed so took a day off before we hit the streets of geneva again.
Again thanks to Stephan and co for making our trip the sickest and we will see you again next year Switzerland.
Blake Bird short session in Lausanne by Bivol Mihai
Lausanne street bowl contest 2010 by Greg Mirzoyan
Lausanne Streetbowl contest 2010 by Tony Martins
Skaters: Jeremy Suarez, Rob G, David Sizemore, Jeremy Kesler, Antony Pottier, Sven Boekhorst, Romain Godenaire, Adrien Anne, Thomas Buggenhoudt, Bjorn Elias, Yannick Moens, Taylor Latouche & more.
