Last Monday Jaap and I went out for a skate. We first tried to skate this spot in town but people were working there so we decided to directly move on to the other thing we wanted to do. Have a look through Heijenoord, Het Dorp and the other surrounding neighbourhoods there. Fucking alley spotting right here…
Jaap found a bike, with a flat tire, on the way and since my bike has a pretty big bend in the front wheel I was on my cruiser. So Jaap give me his fold up bike and he rode the fucked up found one.
We went to get something to eat and drink at this little supermarket in Het Dorp and guess what we found… Cara Pils! This one is for Derk and his homies he went to Brussels with.
Ended up at these flat rails again, but it’s the second time someone tried to skate it now and they’re just so difficult! Maybe Boris can take care of these fuckers?!
Pretty funny double set… But again nothing that we actually felt like skating. So after biking around a little more we ended up back in town and tried to skate the spot we wanted to go to first but got kicked out after 10 minutes. Bummer, but sometimes just biking through Arnhem can be pretty nice as well, like on this sunny and warm day. Just enjoying our beautiful city!

Last Saturday started nice and sunny, so I had my breakfast on the balcony and tried to get a crew out. But not many people seemed to be to keen to skate that day and it turned out that only Dennis, T and I were skating.
Paths to….
bails.
Skated this spot pretty much all afternoon and later on Hugo came by for a short session too.

When Hendrik was in town we tried to skate that Wednesday afternoon, as he was taking the bus back to Paris later that night. Just as we got to Willemsplein it started raining, that’s The Netherlands saying goodbye to Hendrik and hoping he’ll have fun in Paris.
Two days later I went out with Jaap, Eric, Sven and Harmen but not much happened that day. Jaap tried to skate this rail but it didn’t really work out, so we went to this other spot around the corner and ended the session there.

Last week Tuesday, my first day back home. The colours of Sonsbeek looked beautiful, very bright and hard. Certainly would miss this view when I move away from this room.
My parents brought some of my old boards over, about 10 Chocolate boards. “Strictly Street” came from an old Aeon sticker of Alex Carolino flipping over one of those Paral-lel benches.
The old wood was for Job, to make some things out of for his last school project. He came to pick up half the pile that Tuesday evening and we then went for a skate.
On our way to town we ran into Hugo, who’s working full time now and making some good moola! Crazy enough we were just talking about him, wondering if he was still working as we could not get hold of him. Happy to see that G again!
We didn’t even really get enough time to warm up before it started raining, so we shelter from the rain and then when it stopped we cruised to Jaap and Batsi their place in Klarendal.
Hendrik came to town two days before my return and he was still in town, which was definitely a nice surprise! Had the idea to go on an adventure that night but some people left early and the others smoked some joints, drank some booze and we watched some funny videos.
Pretty good first day, except for the part that I didn’t even get to sleep in and had to go to The Hague to drop off some Super 8 film at the lab.

I think it was about three weeks ago that our friends from Amsterdam premiered their third skate video, entitled “Subbiecrew en ander tuig” (=Subbiecrew and other scum). As updated on the blog, Jaap, T and I came over from Arnhem to see it right there at the premier! This week it’s ‘Subbiecrew-week’ over at Tagsters, so there will be heaps of photos and sequences. But what we were all of course looking forward to is the actual video! Well, the first parts are online and above you can see the intro, the crew in Paris and a shared part featuring Jappie & Zeppie.
Below you can see them killing it in Germany and Hendrik, T and I are even featured in the friends section.

Enjoy this very raw video with a great soundtrack, that I have actually contributed a bit of footage too as well.