Skateboard power on Plaza Bolívar. |
Today skateboarders celebrated their annual World Skateboarders Day with a show of power in numbers. They gathered on Plaza Bolívar and skated north to the the Parque Nacional, filling Ave. Septima with an estimated 5,000 'boarders, stopping other traffic. A skateboarders' Critical Mass - something bicyclists have never accomplished here.
Raise that skateboard high! |
Rolling downhill in the Parque Nacional. |
Cruising north on Ave. Septima. |
Skateboard power! |
A skateboard family. |
Observers on the sidewalk. Notice the tie vendor taking pictures. |
Leaping for it in the Parque Nacional. |
Oooops! |
Skateboard anarchist. |
Super cool skateboarders. |
Only a small minority of boarders are female, but this girl was going for it on the downhill in the Parque Nacional in Bogotá. |
Go Skate Day. |
Skateboard love. |
By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours
so it was Skateboard Day! i was wondering why there were so many teenagers out with their boards.. xx
ReplyDeleteEverybody deserves to have their own day, even skateboarders.
ReplyDeletemike