Shadowland

Sport: Skateboard contest

Children -- and grownups, too -- turned out on a hot and sunny September day to see who was best at riding a skateboard around a kind of empty swimming pool place created for the purpose. All, amazingly, survived.

17 Sep 2011

144 visits

Shadowland

17 Sep 2011

112 visits

Gravity defied

17 Sep 2011

272 visits

Bodi Bien, 11

That pit behind him is 10 feet deep. And concrete.

17 Sep 2011

116 visits

Not all the entrants were children

This is Moss Miller of Athens. He's older than some of the others.

17 Sep 2011

125 visits

If you build it . . .

. . . they will skate there.

17 Sep 2011

124 visits

Micah Wu, 13, overall winner

This kid was incredibly precise and exacting. I remember him delivering his father's expensive camera -- crossing the course on his skateboard. He rides a skateboard better than I walk!

23 Feb 2013

118 visits

Getting Air

17 Sep 2011

129 visits

Getting Air II

17 Sep 2011

109 visits

He did come down alive

Just not on the skateboard.
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