DATE: June 20th 2009
LOCATION: Corroios, Portugal
WORDS: Paulo Martins
PHOTOS: Miguel Pestana
The Deserto Jam/ Corroios, Portugal Street Jam went down this past Saturday. Besides the really hot day (+35º C) a conservative estimate was about 50 people showed up for the day-long jam (that’s a lot of people for a real street only jam, over here) on the outskirts of Corroios, Alto do Moinho, and Sobreda (skate park for the prizes/gifts deliverance), where the streets with really good rails, parking lots, and banks are in abundance, and riding distance from one another. We even rode the Corroios Swimming pool building, doing wall rides, grinds, and other crazy stunts, without security guards to shut down the crazyness, a lot of people from the pool came outdoors just to see what a bunch of crazy dudes where doing outside. Tons of crazy riding went down, people sent themselves from rails, gaps, tech stuff, drink stuff, at the end no one got broke, a lots of beers, water and Red Bulls went down, but no one got drunk. At the end a few ones got giveaway prizes from Dig and Green Eyes Clothing, and probably everyone left with a smile on their face (except maybe Guga after his ass had an encounter with the rail...) Check out the photos for a glimpse into some of the riding what went down. Thanks to NC, the organizer, DIG BMX and Green Eyes Clothing for the gifts and to RED BULL for the fresh drinks all day long. - Paulo Martins
