During the Chileros Tour de Mexico, we were invited to Morelia by Daniel Vallejo. We took the opportunity to visit yet another great city with an amazing skate scene. The day we got there we met most of the crew at an art exhibition and were surprised to see our mate Joe Atkinson was also cruising through the country.
We had a couple of sessions and heard there was a sketchy DIY Bowl up in the hills which was built inside a small unfinished house. Needless to say Joe got super hyped to go and check it out and after a few laps the place transformed into something out of this world. Thank you Daniel, thank you Joe for being amazing people. - Hadrien Bastouil.
Music: La Bande-Son Imaginaire - Mezcal a Pleno Vuelo.
When you spend a few months travelling and skating through the country you sometimes have to cave in and join a few sessions at the parks. While you may think skating might define a country’s street culture in the paved avenues of the big cities, the skateparks of Mexico also have a story to tell and are still the place of good times sharing sessions. This one is for all the carnales we met.
Parks in Mexico are really surprising and oftentimes huge and vast dumps of concrete in some cities where only a few practice urban sports which usually adds to their volume. But meeting the crews of each city as we went through allowed us to share some great memories and even skate some hidden gems. For instance in Morelia where we met up with Joe Atkinson and explored a covered up SpaceBowl for a shadowy session out of time.
Be sure to watch the whole Chileros Video not to miss out on professional action since I loved the song to much and added a bunch of footage from Joe Atkinson, Julien Cudot and Stephane Alfano borrowed from other great projects like Foot Moon and Alfamor videos.
Skating from: Frai Gomez, Thomas Camus, Hadrien Bastouil, Pablo Ledesma, Marisol Tamayo, HoneyBee, Obed Mejia, Chaneblade Paredes, Angel Cocolero, Daniel Vallejo, Diego Lara, Jaime, Rubi Farias, Rafael Urena, Arturo Gomez, Kenya Maldonado, Efrain Mondragon, Jeremi Rodriguez, Enrique Zepeda, Joe Atkinsons, Julien Cudot and Stephane Alfano. Filmed in Guadalajara, Mexico City and Morelia, Mex. Music: Quantic x Flowering Inferno - Dub y Guaguanco ; Delinquent Habits - Fiesta ; La Bande-Son Imaginaire - Mezcal a Pleno Vuelo. Keep Blading it’s fun.
“It’s me again, so exited to share with all of you my new video skating for the brand Deathsquad Blading. Also I wanna say thanks one more time for all this brands who believe in myself and keep supporting me even without know me in a person way”.
“This video represent a lot how hard is for me to realize each video. Specially because nobody skate in my city and always is sad to be alone recording your tricks, no motivated at all. Anyways, I got two good tricks recorded by my good skatefriend “Gallito” and the rest of the video was me. As you can see, the skatepark is so big but each area still alone.
I know the idea of an alone skatepark sounds beautiful but believe me… after more 10 years skating like this is so depressing. The good thing is that I still loving to skate. Thank you life, thank you rollerblading for all. Peace and just keep rollin”. - Frai Gomez.
A Proyecto Mexico Video (Youtube Channel).
Los Chileros present Tour de Mexico. A 4 months blading trip around the country with Frai Gomez, Thomas Camus, Hadrien Bastouil, Jeremi Rodriguez, Pablo Ledesma, Vincent Romain, Jon Pino, KB Felix, Daniel Vallejo, Diego Garzon, Mauricio Lara and many more.
A film by Hadrien Bastouil. Main camera: Hadrien Bastouil.
Rollerblading movie from 2014 recorded all around the World (Europe, Mexico, New York City, California, Barcelona, Puerto Rico) featuring top skaters such as: Franky Morales, Montre Livingston, Julian Bah, Victor Arias, Brian Freeman, Dave Lang, David Sizemore and many others.
Bladergang BG Worldwide (2014) - Full movie. Directed by Erick Rodriguez.
BG.WORLDWIDE - TOUR VIDEO. a 9TO5DigiMedia production. Barcelona, Mexico, Puerto Rico, New York, and California. Featuring: Franky Morales, Julian Bah, Brian Freeman, Erick Rodriguez, Korey Waikiki, Chris Farmer, Montre Livingston, Dre Powell, Rachard Johnson, Victor Arias, Ivan Narez, Alex Burston, Ryan Many, Abdiel Colberg, Brandon Smith, Vinny Minton, Dave Lang, Franco Camayo, Kruise Sapstein, Chris Smith, Jeremy Soderburg, Ranier Piramide, Steven Cortes, Coco Sanchez, Geof Leyva, Miguel Ramos, Damon Franklin, Tim Franken, Neil Dacheng, Kevin Lebron, Yuri Botelho, Jon Pino, James Perez, Justin Brasco, Sebastian Michalski, and Pietro Firrincieli. Video length : 25min.
Frai Gomez presents the Faction V1 White Skates. A video testing the new skates and filming all day at 2 local parks of my city Saltillo (Mexico).
I was wearing white because also I was recording all this clips for a team video. Orders from the boss. Skating like that was one of the hardest thing for this video, believe me, staying clean is almost impossible. Plus I’m feeling more nervous when I’m skating and recording for an specific thing. Considering it was my first day using this new skates, I can say I’m really happy with the results. So, I want to say thank you one more time, specially to my good friend Cameron Card who did my sponsor possible and also thanks to Faction Skate Company for still supporting me and keeping me motivaed to still pushing my level up.
Thanks to Erik Tavares for recording me all day and thanks to all these people who still loving what I love to do, specially Fam, Homies and Haters lol. Keep rolling and doing what you passion loves to do. All big things in the life request big sacrifices. The people from the house gave us a bottle of water and the chance to try the gap so, thanks to you too. - Frai Gomez.
Short Movie of pure agressive street rollerblading done in Mexico (Chetumal, Playa del Carmen, Cancun, CDMX, Monterrey, Guadalajara). Filmed between december 2022 and April 2023. Produced, skated & edited by: Vincent Romain AKA Tiger.
Camera: Hadrien Bastouil, Guillaume Chaboux, Julien Cudot, Stephane Alfano, Walter Sanchez & Estaban Obregon. Music: In The Woods - Hugo Kant ; Give Me Water - John Forte & Valerie June.
You can support Vincent Romain and buy him a coffee on Sellfy, getting an enhanced version of the edit in the process.
Stéphane Alfano spent a month traveling and skating throughout Mexico, taking his trademark fearless approach to a wide variety of spots and terrain. Along the way he made new friends and laid down big tricks on a handful of impossible spots, all documented by local videographer Vincent Romain and presented here for our entertainment. Enjoy!
Check a photo report on Oneblademag.com (pictures by Thomas Camus), and an extra teaser if you missed it: PLAY (Youtube).
Thomas Camus - Chill Session in Mazunte Skatepark (Oaxaca, Mexico.