Shanghaied
I guess people used to get kidnapped from SF and then were made to work on American merchant ships sailing to Shanghai. That's where the term Shanghaied came from.
Chinese Ollies
It's becoming a very common statement but allow me to make it more common ... Shenzhen is spot after endless spot of perfect marble, buttery smooth, no-bust skateboarding. Completely untapped and growing as I type this.
I'm used to it now ... it's always tomorrow here
I'll get more Adidas team guys up here tomorrow (ha! that's today!), but here are a couple random Hong Kong snaps for now.
It's Tomorrow Already
On the road with the Adidas Skateboarding team means in an airplane for twelve hours with the Adidas Skateboarding team. It also means we're fourteen hours ahead of most people in the United States. Hong Kong China is that far ahead of the world we know. And in a city that has over seven million people living in the area of San Francisco they have to be ahead. Build up, not bombs.
