Skateboarding
See part 2 of Madars and co’s Georgian skate trip
Madars Apse, Pat Duffy and the crew continue their Eastern European odyssey with Patrik Wallner.
7 min
East of Eden- Madars and Co ripping across Georgia
Part 2 of our Eurasian trip with Pat Duffy, Madars Apse, Barney Page, Walker Ryan and Gosha Konyshev
The first major road journey of the skate trip gets under way in Chapter Two of Skate Caucasus, a meandering expedition around the borders of Europe and Asia.
It's great to see skaters who still keep skateboarding’s connection to the romance of the open road alive, when today it is easy to find a thousand reasons to do the familiar, easy thing instead.
From England came Barney Page, Russia was represented by Gosha Konyshev and Latvia’s Madars Apse tucked his legs in to make space for Americans Walker Ryan and the street skating legend that is Pat Duffy, as the van set off in the direction of the Black Sea, taking in the Georgian cities of Kutaisi and Batumi.
As ever with Patrik Wallner’s trip edits, the spots are like those you can only dream of. Combine those with a diverse and individually talented skate gang and the ‘now or never’ constraints of time on the road, and you have all the spontaneity, adventure and inspiration of skateboarding expressing itself to the full.
Madars Apse - Nosebluntslide
© Alexey Lapin
Pole Dancer
© Alexey Lapin
Walker Ryan - Ollie
© Alexey Lapin
We'll bring the concluding part of Patrik Wallner’s trilogy from the Caucasus right here next week, as the squad’s skate mission travels through Armenia to the tiny de-facto republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in the first ever skate exploration of those mysterious and hidden lands.
If you've missed out on any chapters of the video series up to now, click on the links below and enjoy.
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