Longboarding in Toronto at night
Where to even start with this video... I think it's story time and this video needs more context!
OLD SCHOOL NIGHT SHRED
This is the organized chaos being sent through Eaton Centre and their respective carholes in Toronto. As of last year the Toronto Board Meeting was cancelled and highly doubt we will be able to gather again in September. It's an annual event that normally happens every 2nd Saturday in September. This video is from the Friday night before where we do the "Old School Night Shred" that consists of what you see here. Flying down garages with hundreds of us evading the parking police. This normally starts around 9PM and goes until everybody gets tired! The next day is filled with stoke and a HUGE gathering in one of Toronto's open parks, then we ride down Yonge street as a parade. This is also where I even met some of my first pro longboarders. John Barnet, Louis Pilloni, Dexter Manning, Patrick Switzer, Adam Colton, Adam Stokowski, Eric Jensen and the list goes on. We've got the skills without the hills. Everybody in this list who is from Ontario no longer lives in Ontario. Can safely say this gathering of kooks changed my life and the community here is huge!
Here's a shot of me with my lady making our way through the streets. I grabbed her hand and pushed out in front of Yuji and there was a mob behind us. This picture perfectly captured Toronto and we've got it hanging in the living room.
📸: Yuji Fujiyama (___57mm on IG)
Shout out Longboard Haven and all the folks involved in organizing this.
Feel free to ask me any questions about Toronto Board Meeting! This one in 2019 was our 6th or 7th time going, definitely lost track and the crowds have come and gone. I am sure the next one that happens will be the biggest once we can all escape lockdown!! Skate safe and skate everything.
Cheers!
Man do i miss parkade nights with homies! If we all survived eating with our hands after skating parkades in slide gloves, we're already immune to covid!
oh yeah man we have had the antibodies for awhile! All that car dirt helps fight gingivitis too.
You should come check out the board meeting weekend sometime 😅😷
Never thought I'd be prevented from attending because I can't cross provincial lines. Welcome to Communist Canada, or Comanada as we now should start calling it.
You hear about Bill C-10? Good bye free speech and any independent journalism in Comanada. Heck me saying this would likely be illegal.
Ahah shit man, I'd like to say it's temporary and just a product of capitalism. Seems like cable companies just want their cut because all the smart people don't pay for their packages anymore. Time will tell lol
Damn dude! That looked really fun. Cool you guys do this every year and the next day party. Sounds like a hell of a time
There's a whole whack of great videos showing it. I'd say Landyachtz made the best ones and have been coming out from the west coast for it for awhile. My first time there and being from a small town in Manitoba who grew up with 1 or 2 skater buds had me mind blown. I think the highest count we have had for the board meeting ride down Yonge st was around 1200 people. Just great vibes all weekend, there's a slide jam at a local spot on the Sunday too so it's definitely a full weekend event.
Here's a full raw run down one of the garages in this post. Please disregard my stoked screams lmao
That looks fun as hell!
the vibes are insane 😱 everybody's invited
A Legit parade!!! I feel so jelous! Skate day is coming i must start planning something out!
Kind of like an outlaw parade ;) but it's been going on for over 15 years so the cops help the group move lol
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