El Patin in Mallorca

El Patin Magazine recently spent some skating in Mallorca, soaking up the Balearic sun with a crew that included our own Jordan Sharkey alongside various Spanish rippers. Terrible music notwithstanding, this has plenty of good skateboarding encased within a framework of aural torture – peep the properly ninja’d out shapes on Jordan’s kickflip at 1:55 and weep as you compare it to your feeble worm burner steez…

Peep the edit below featuring Pol Catena, Dudu García, Manuel Stiefvater, Jordan Sharkey, Andrew Verde and Ruben Dos Santos then scroll down past it when you’re done for links to further sun drenched ‘aspirational viewing’ – the aspiration being to get the fuck away from this weather…

Filmed and edited by Cholo Patin.

Mallorca has long been the go to destination for vitamin D deprived Brits looking to get their fix of dry streets whilst pickling themselves on cheap booze and good Spanish hash, with the island being heavily rinsed at the height of Blueprint Skateboards’ glory, and was also the focus of our Sidewalk Points of Interest feature with both an article in Issue 229 and a video featuring some familiar UK heads.

Blueprint’s yearly mission to the Balearic Islands was always well documented, with footage cropping up regularly in their videos and various offcuts making their way to the web in the form of The Tales From the Black Glove series (currently offline due to technical difficulties), nighttime exploration clips and team rider video blogs as well as numerous pieces of photographic coverage ranging from full magazine articles to ‘behind the scenes’ straight to web features back when print reigned supreme and the internet was very much second fiddle to the real world…