2009-04-28

Rollerskating in Shèngsì (嵊泗)

Filed under: Rollerskating, Shanghai, China, Trips — atomicskate @ 8:55 pm — 449 Views

On April 11th & 12th, we’ve been to Shèngsì (嵊泗) island for a mix of downhill, freeride & aggressive skating.
Inlineskating in Shengsi

This place combines flat roads along the sea, roads going down from the top of the mountains, stairs, gaps, fun boxes…
In short, it’s a great spot for using surroundings as our playground ;-)

First kilometers along the coast:
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And Marmotte started to go crazy:
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After going uphill, we’ve found a nice place for some big jumps:
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And a factory with a double box and wallride:
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As usual, we had a small car to put our stuff and, most important, to use it on uphill as chairlift!
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Marmotte took the chance to experiment a new concept. Mixing aggressive skates with freeskates.
I already seen some people putting aggressive frames on fitness skates or freeskates, but I never seen anybody doing the contrary!!!
Thanks to UFS system (Universal Frame System), Marmotte put my Salomon Crossmax 3 frames on his Xsjado!
And the result was awesome:
Xsjado on Crossmax
Xsjado on Crossmax

It was two nice days, enjoying sunbathing and fresh marine air!
Shengsi is once and for all a great place for inline skating, rollerskating, skateboarding, longboarding & cycling ;-)
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Here are our tracks (27km on the first day -see the green line-, and 16km on the second day -see the yellow line-):

We’ve also met nice people, except an embittered local guy who called the cops because we’ve entered a supposed military area!…
Actually, we’ve arrived at a crossroad, and he said that foreigners can’t continue from this point. The funny thing is that I already entered this area with other foreign friends many times in the past years, for mountainbike, rollerskating and even camping!
So, just enjoy some pictures, taken 2 years ago, of this "forbidden area" hahaha
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Here are all the pictures: Day 1 / Day 2
and the slideshows: Day 1 / Day 2

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