DB Skimboards European Skim Tour: Sweden

Blake Zimmerman, Richard Docter, Dallas Kingsbury, Adam Balaam, Adrien Raza, Daniel Priel and Friedrich Fluh along with myself left Germany for Sweden to meet up with Jonathan Strömberg and skim the Urban Skim Park in at the Hallifornia Festival in Sweden. The festival featured skimboarding, longboarding and a cable park for wakeboarding.

As we prepped for the skim jam one of the employees of the Hallifornia took the keys to our van to move it to a parking spot designated for us. This was my first mistake of the trip since when I got the keys back I was informed she hit another car. She somehow managed to sideswipe a parked car in a parking lot while moving the van five feet. She and her boss Eric told us they would reimburse us for the damage to the van. At this point all we have received is 9 free beers at the festival. and we had to pay 750 euro for the damage to the van that eventually I paid off through working for free for DB. It is truly disappointing to fly across the world and contribute to a festival for free and have something like that happen. More or less if you ever meet a girl Malin Steen in Europe don't let her touch anything. But enough with the gloom and doom. I mean that is the kind of stuff that makes it a memorable adventure, right?

The Urban Skim Park contest was something the local Swedish people appeared to really enjoy. All the guys threw down at the contest and Blake took first place at the contest edging out Adrien, Adam, Friedrich and Logan.

After the contest we grabbed some beers and watched wakeboarding, listened to live music and some of the guys took a try at meeting some of the local women. Jonathan claimed that Sweden had the most beautiful women in the world and he was right. The Swedish women truly were breathtaking. I am not sure what is in the water over there, but we need some in the United States.

Some of the guys partied a little to hard that night and that is when we came up with the term "Blaking out" because Blake celebrated a little to hard that night. After the festival we ventured back to Jonathan's house for some much needed rest.

The next morning we awoke, ate some breakfast and headed to the beach. We seshed for a few hours and gathered as much footage as we could. It was the best beach we skimmed of the trip thus far. This is where I made my second mistake of the trip leaving my GoPro on the beach about 10 feet from me. At some point someone walked off with the GoPro later on someone found the GoPro and they were going to send it back to me, but that never happened. Just another part of the traveling experience. Although Sweden is a very safe country this goes to show there are bad people everywhere and reminded me to keep my camera gear on me at all times going forward.

After the skim session we went back to Jonathan's house for a BBQ and more drinking games. Later that night some of the guys went out to the club for some late night shenanigans, while Logan, Daniel and myself stayed back and took it easy for the night. The next morning we packed up the van and said our goodbyes. We are truly thankful for the opportunity Jonathan gave us to skim and see Sweden first hand.

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