The Red Arrows fly over Polruan

The Red Arrows returned to Fowey for the 2017 Fowey Regatta. The display team flew in over Fowey and proceeded to perform for 20 minutes in front of huge crowds over the bay. The planes would disappear into the clouds and then re-appear in formation with the signature red, blue and white jet streams behind them delighting the huge number of people gathered in town and on the cliff tops on both side of the harbour.

The Red Arrows fly out from Fowey Harbour

Red Arrows go head to head

It was a great afternoon and I look forward to the Red Arrows returning to Fowey for many more years to come.

There’s so much good stuff to ride in Spain. Away from bucketing out rancid pools we also visited some trails and skate parks in and around Malaga. Steve was killing these trails.

Nath

Steve

Grant blasting a table.

While at this park a kid tried to rob Grant mini-megaphone by just sitting down on the bench next to it and just putting it in his bag. Luckily someone noticed and he was called out on it. This kid had some balls to try and nick it with 10 people stood next to him…

In the middle of Malaga there are these huge drainage ditches and banks. Pat lays a table

Dave

Team work to rescue a ball from the toxic sludge

Lewis

Another place I was really excited to visit was this run off from a reservoir, having seen numerous pictures and videos from it over the years. The scale of it is hard to comprehend.

Man like Ken

Hard at it

Pat

Team work

Views over Malaga.

In September I headed to Spain to chase the sun and ride bikes. The temperature was a perfect 25 degrees or so every day and the beer was cheap and chilled. The local skate park near where we were staying is flood lit until 4am, with a cafe serving pizza and beers next door. The beach is a 5 minute roll away, pretty good setup. Seemingly every other train station on the way into Malaga has a good skatepark.

I had seen this pool in various videos over the years and so it was amazing to go and get to actually check it out. When we arrived it was full of water seemingly not haven been ridden since the previous year. After an afternoon bucketing the rancid water with anything that came to hand, hauling it up the side of the pool with rope it was finally emptied. I expected us to find something pretty grim at the bottom, but no bodies were found in the end.

It is hard to describe how hard this thing is to ride. It has a brutal ledge at the bottom of it and then gets pretty steep then chucks you back down into the ledge again.

Scooping and sweeping out the pool

More cleaning

Pool cleaning operation complete

Pat enjoying the transition…

Steve fufanu on the pool, the way back in is super steep and curved

This set of hips was massive, the roll in is a hill with speed jumps going down it. Steve Devine wasn’t afraid and blasted to the sun.

The Etnies team were also around filming for the next video, Steve just got on and fired out huge tables with them

Inside the ruins of a villa

More photos to come…