Bones Europe

Waking up to a text from Jaime Owens about going to Europe with the Bones Wheels team was not a bad way to start my day; especially considering it would be my first time going overseas. And what a better time to go than during the Copenhagen Open? Two weeks later the squad and I met at LAX and prepared to get on the ten-hour flight we were all dreading. But with help from a little bit of booze, a few movies, and occasional sleep it wasn’t too bad. I even heard someone singing. To my surprise, I looked over and it was Dakota [Servold] singing in his sleep!

The team killed the streets of London and Poland, with our final stop being Copenhagen, but all these stops didn’t leave much room for sleep. Considering all the demos they had to skate, the constant moving to new hotels every night, and drives that went on for hours, sleep was the least of our worries. Especially with the van parties and warm beers that accompanied most nights, leading to the phrase, “That’s a beer.” You can only imagine how many times we heard that, considering someone would yell it out every time they heard a beer crack open. We had a somewhat random crew of people coming and going, which made it super fun and offered a variety of spots to be skated. Dakota Servold, Taylor Bingaman, Corey Glick, Marek Zaprazny, and Yonnie Cruz were the main crew. Cody Lockwood met us in Poland, and later TJ Harris and Taylor McClung joined us in Copenhagen.