Nimh Europe – 3 Days and 7 Hours in Barcelona

In the not too distant past Oli called me to say that he would be flying to Barcelona for a short but hard hitting trip to skate and film with NIMHs first official EU Am rider, Marc Moreno. Seemingly hours later we were exchanging dates and getting excited about the prospect of some good weather. Whilst fretting over a tiny amount of money in my account I attempted to figure out how I was going to fit in the trip amongst my other normal weekly commitments and also trying to process the fact that if all the arrangements came together we would be leaving less than 2 weeks after we were having these conversations.

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Nimh in Barcelona: Oli Short and Marc Moreno from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

New Nimh EU Pro Rider and European Team Roster!!!!!

This is a New beginning for NIMH on the other side of the atlantic. NIMH will be setting a NEW standard for rollerblading in Europe! NIMH EU will be building from the ground up.

This is the official team roster for Europe:
Pro:
Oli Short

Am:
Marc “Enanoh” Moreno

Support:
Benni Harmanus
Leon Humphries
Rémy Meister

Flow:
Finocchiaro Anthony
Clement Milot
Bruno Santos
Perttu Tiainen
Paco Rey
Fábio “kanina” Pereira
Martin Walchhofer
Bruno Willemarck
Krzysztof Dziuba
Almants Nedzveckish
Alex Rudolf
Mike Salt
Sam Tuffnell
Matt Chilvers
Petter Dearden

Nimh is also in tour in Europe right now. Check out the flyer below.

Two New Nimh edits for your viewing pleasure.

We have uploaded two new Nimh Edits to our vimeo page. The first edit is a day with Adam Brierley with his new Shima V.2s that Brian gave him. The second is from Amsterdam’s Flash Gordon Daan Hegt which features a day of him skating around the city. Read more

Oli Short visits Marc “Enanoh” Moreno in Barcelona, Spain

Oli Short spent three days and 7 hours in Barcelona with Spains Marc Moreno. Check out the full online story on be-mag.com along with the online video. NIMH will be back in Spain in just a few weeks time, as well as France and England, check our European tour flyer for more info.

Very random abandoned place with random shit everywhere.

Art through architecture at the beach.

Behind the lens.

Behind this door was a man dressed like pirate with a parrot on his shoulder

Breaking the bread.

CCTV on a castle wall.

Construction work.

Sweet dreams in Barcelona on the dead end streets.

Early breakfast

Here’s Freddy

Random spot next to the skatespot.

High tide.

Hot Hot Heat

Las Ramblas. Oli, Menero, Sam, Mariette

Live creepy music, howling down the back of the street of Las Ramblas.

Man in the moon.

Menero  on Elm Street

Manero

Marc supports FCB football club.

Marc Moreno

Marc’s custo stitched Nimhs.

Marc’s sister’s house . The palce of rest.

Men in the Moon

Menero checking out the roses.

Mini Mouse got dealt with.

Night session

Oli and the Dog

On St. George’s day there are stalls everywhere selling single blood red roses. Marc gets flowers for his mom and sister.

Production

Represent

Rocks

Sam and Marc, at the first spot.

Sand castle sculpture

Sam and Marc at the first spot. This wall is where the fascists shot and executed the republicans during the Franco regime.

Shadows

Spanish Apartments

Spanish meat.

Spanish plates

Spanish window.

The Butler

The metro

The night owl

Tales

Shanghai, China – Day 1 to 3: Asian X-Games

Day 01
Brian Shima and I (Jon Elliott) arrived in Shanghai after a gruelling 17 hour trip. Once we landed it was an hour and half cab ride from the airport to the event. After checking in to the hotel we went and got some lunch. We met up with our friend Jacob, who is living in Shanghai, and ventured out to a bar with Chris Fowler, Mike Wilson and Chris Mitchell.

This is the taxi driver who picked us up from the airport. He tried to kill us with his new found driving skills.

Alan (O22y Skateshop) helping us figure out the Chinese cell phone

The metal detectors to get into the Asian X-Games event. They didn’t even work.

Chinese Walmart Supercenter

Edible Chinese Frogs sold at Walmart for lunchtime consumption.

Walmart in Shanghai selling frogs for food from Jan Welch on Vimeo.

World’s cheapest beer at $1.40 a six-pack.

Richie Eisler cracking a mid-day beer.

Getting lunch with Richie.

Sam Fogarty and Brian Shima at the lunch spot.

Mike Wilson and Chris Fowler not so sober in the back of a taxi.

Goot times in the taxi cab.

Jacob is not looking so fresh.

Chris Mitchell distracting the cock-blocker

Jacob trying to figure out where he is at.

Club in Shanghai China, first night in town from Jan Welch on Vimeo.

Art installment of track bikes welded together in the Bund District.

Day 02
Everyone is getting ready for the event today. Most of the street guys are staying sober, except for Sam Fogarty who decided to venture out with us.

Chris Fowler hard at work.

The vert ramp.

Killer K

Sam Fogarty

Soichiro banging in the 8-ball.

Sam getting a light off another cab driver.

Another suicidal cab driver.

The Felon.

Jacob with his friend.

David Yin and myself.

Chris Fowler and me.

Shanghai club night 2 from Jan Welch on Vimeo.

Day 03
Today was crazy. Haffey was on a mission to take first on the street course, which he did thanks to a disaster 540 Kind Grind. It was raining off and on and the vert finals ended up being canceled. After a long day waiting out the rain I was able to head back to the hotel and take a shower. We then proceeded to venture out once more for our friend David Yin’s birthday celebration. It ended up being one of those black out nights…..I really need to tone down my drinking.

The security troop for Asian X-Games getting their morning briefing.

X-Games security.

Rian Arnold

Chris Haffey

The Anderson Family

Crazy motorcycle dude.

Asian X-Games motorcycle jump from Jan Welch on Vimeo.

Fariq from Malaysia

Worapoj Boonnim

Azikwee and his baby.

Takeshi Yasatoko checking the ramp sticker for moisture.

Leaving for dinner.

The waitress at David Yin’s birthday dinner bringing us delicious beverages.

We had a Sushi and Yakitori feast at a nice Japanese restaurant.

Mike Wilson digging in.

Cheers!

David Yin and Andy Wegener.

Mike + ginger.

Chris Mitchell + Sam Fogarty

Uh oh. Me love you long time.

Hanging out at the couches at Paramount Club.

I swear she is old enough. Jailbait?

Cage dancers.

They couldn’t dance at all.

David Yin with a cocktail and a smile.

Chubby. None of these girls spoke a word of English, not even any Engrish.

She was my favorite.

She was my second favorite.

Happy Birthday David!

Cutting the cake.

I should have brought her home to Jan.

Michael Z gets all the ladies.

The skaters.

Flat bottom girls.

I love China.

3rd night out in shanghai from Jan Welch on Vimeo.

White Nimh LE skin / Vicious Spider Liner @ our online store

We have a limited selection of white Nimh LE skins and white Vicious Spider Liners available at http://rattail.bigcartel.com. Go to our online store and pick them up before they are gone forever. Remember only 500 skins and liners were made. So get them before they are gone forever, this is your LAST chance… Read more

Journey to Moscow, Russia – Day 8-9: The voyage home…

The voyage home
At this point in my trip I am completely exhausted and near death from the worst allergies of my life. I wake up in the morning spitting up a massive amount of green vile and snot. I cleanse out my system, pack my bags and wait for Yriy to pick me up. I ended up wait quite a while because he is stuck in traffic, so I muster up the strength to go to Starbucks and get a snack and a latte. Yriy arrives and drives me to the airport. We get pulled over on the way there to have his documents checked. We make it to the airport and he escorts me to the ticket booth. Thank you Yriy for all your help while in Moscow and getting me to and from the airport, you are a great man!

I waited in line a good half and hour and checked my bags in. I made it to my terminal and charged my computer before boarding the plane and taking a muscle relaxer to help me fall asleep on my flight back. I sleep almost all the way to Washington D.C. We arrive late due to weather and eventually deboard the plane and head to customs. The customs line was insanely long and took almost an hour to get through. This meant I missed my plane to Los Angeles and had to wait for the next flight out of D.C. I end up getting to Los Angeles at 8:30pm an wait at the airport for Chris Peel to pick me up. Once he arrives we head to Union Station so I can take Amtrak to San Diego. We get lost however and by time we make it to the station the last train had just left. We drive back to Long Beach and I spend the night at Chris’s house. In the morning he drops me off at the metro station in Long Beach and I take the metro all the way to Union Station, then catch a train to San Diego and have Cory Casey pick me up when I arrive. All in all this was a real journey.

The inside of my hostel room

The other side, I slept on the bottom one in this picture.

This is where you ate the food you made.

This was a couch that you could hang out by yourself and get online.

This is the plane I am about to get to from Moscow to Washington, D.C.

Mockba aka Moscow

Getting ready to board the plane, my flight seemed to have fair share of seniors and sex tourists.

The metro train from Long Beach station

Union Station Los Angeles

Union Station Los Angeles

The last photo I took before the battery died. Shortly after the train rolled homeward bound to San Diego.

Last Thoughts
Moscow was a very beautiful city mixed with modern buildings and atmosphere combined with lots of history. I really enjoyed walking around this city and seeing the sites. The food I had was all good. And the skaters here have a special place in my heart. When I go to Russia again, however, there are several things I have learned and will do different. First of all I will not go by myself, it is a very hard city to navigate and communicate with people. So it would be nice to have a fellow English speaker. Second, I will get a hair and beard cut. I stuck out like a sore thumb, with people laughing at me because I didn’t look like anyone else. I didn’t like this at all and it took away from a lot potential fun I could have had in Moscow. Third, the pollen and allergies here are insane. I will bring lots of medicine and start taking Claritin before I even get on the flight! Thanks to everyone in Moscow I hung out with for making my trip a success. Especially Yriy for being an amazing host and Boris for taking me to meet some skaters. A shout out to DM for being a funny guy!

Don’t forget to check out my first six days of my trip to Moscow:
Day 01: San Diego to LAX
Day 02: Washington D.C.
Day 03: I’m Here!
Day 04: A Day of Business
Day 05: A Walk Around Town
Day 06: May Day!
Day 07: The Metro

Six new NIMH edits for your viewing pleasure.

We just uploaded six new videos to our vimeo page. Five of the edits were sent by Nimh Supporters and the other is an edit from Portugal shop flow rider Fábio “kanina” Pereira, who rides for roveshop.com. Please join out vimeo channel and start following our updates at http://www.vimeo.com/rattail

Nimh Supporter Edit: Bruce “Juice” Bales from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

Nimh Supporter Edit: Daniel Breuer from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

Nimh Supporter Edit: Mike Lyons from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

Nimh Supporter Edit: Peter Curi from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

Nimh Shop Flow Edit: Fábio “kanina” Pereira – roveshop.com from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

Nimh Supporter Edit: Isiah England from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

Joey Chase Nimh Print Ad

Congratulations to Joey Chase for getting his first Nimh Ad. The above ad appears in both the new issues of One Magazine and Rolls Magazine.

Brian Shima on the cover of Rolls Magazine

The new issue of the French inline skating magazine Rolls will be hitting the shelves soon. Brian Shima landed the cover of this issue with a nice backside backslide on a stair ledge. Brian Shima, Montre Liviginston and our new European rider will be coming to France. The Nimh European tour schedule to be posted soon.

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