So, we moved hotel all is good, Johnson tells us the Park is a fifteen minute bike ride away, lets roll!It was one of the best laughs I have had in ages, just pedaling down the bike lane in Shanghai was fun, people with bikes loaded up so much, you could hardly see them.It was weird when we arrived at the SMP park, it looked more like a business center than a Skatepark, a quick walk around the back and the worlds biggest skatepark was revealed! Wow!
After I picked my Jaw off the floor, we paid our entry fee and we spent the next 40 minutes just walking and looking at this monster park, to say its big is an understatement, its bloody huge! the full pipe, the main bowl, the clam shells they are all huge!
After being shown all the places Gary Young destroyed in his Odyssey video part, me and Morgan started cruising round the place, its is very well built, and there is so much stuff its hard to session just one place!The full pipe was alot of fun, and the hip line was great for me, morgan had trouble hitting it, but, he killed the rest of the park!
I think its the first time I have ever seen a park overshadow Morgan, he looked like a dot in some of the bowls, but in a short space of time he was making his mark on the place.So I got on the vert ramp with Will and his camera, It looked incredible, unfortunately for me it did not ride as good as it looked, maybe if it was my home ramp ,then yeah I could have done something with it, I just did not get on with it, what a shame as I had all these ideas and plans for tricks on the ramp and they amounted to nothing!
Oh well we are here for a while.One thing I forgot to mention ,was that three guys from Hong Kong made the trip over to Shanghai after hearing that me and Morgan were going to be there!Wow!
Ron, Oscar and Logo are a great bunch of guys and for a forty year old ,Ron is a hell of a rider!And never challenge Oscar at Rubics cube, its just not worth it eh Morgan.
The day is done, the skatepark amazing, Will needs a fake Rolex and we all need some Sushi!Shortround work your magic son, One fake Rolex, an amazing Sushi buffet and all the latest Dvd releases at a bargain price and we are one happy gang!After a quick photo outside the Levis store and we take a rip off cab back and its night, night!Our Taxi awaits!
Jamie ” DVD9″ Bestwick