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The good folks at Madrid Skateboards and Venom wheels sent me down to Puerto Rico to take some photos and race in the Guajataka Downhill. I’m not very good at racing, so enjoy the pictures.

There were more spectators at this event than any other I’ve ever been to. Thousands of people lined the course 5 deep to watch us skate. We enjoyed watching them as well. Rayne team rider and proud Floridian mongo-pusher Cam Frazier rolls down the windows in the $100 longest-slide competition.

The race was in Quebradillas, a little town on the coast.

Kevin lays down some urethane for the skate-paparazzi at Saturday’s slide jam. Spectators kept creeping into the road, making the skatable surface narrower and narrower. Note Jeff Budro’s Sector 9 tattoo and repurposed shirtsleeve sweatband steez.

Stickers work well as band-aids when you’re in a pinch. The owner of this bloody shin, Serge Berig, pushed across most of the US by himself with no support car because he’s a badass like that.

Louis demonstrates what happens when you try to run out of a slide at full speed and accidentally step on your board. There was blood. The crowd went wild. (more…)