Nike SB embarked upon a ten day UK tour mid way through the summer. The plan was to work our way down from Glasgow to London via a host of key cities in order to put on a few ‘skate with us’ style relaxed demos/sessions and take in enough street to put together a tour edit and print feature in Sidewalk. With two mini buses packed to the rafters with some of the nation’s greatest talents, we hit the road.

Being held up on another tour prior to this one, everyone else was already in Scotland, where the tour began, a day before me. As my plane touched down in Glasgow mid way through the second day I began to get text messages and see through Instagram posts that Chris Jones had already taken himself out of the running for the week with a nasty ankle injury. Gutted!

As the week unfolded and the crew smashed it with back to back fourteen hour days of filming, all the while Chris Jones would keep us media types company and occasionally hobble to a café for us to help keep us refreshed. With one of the last days of the tour being in Bristol and a session at Dean Lane skatepark, Chris became surrounded by friends and fans who all wanted to see him skate. Having had a sneaky flat ground session as the Dean Lane appearance drew to a close, Chris took myself and Ben (Powell) to one side later that evening and told us he wanted to get a photo in Bristol as he reckoned he could fight through the pain. We were obviously well keen!

We met downstairs in the hotel lobby at 9.30 the next morning and headed over to the entrance ramp of a nearby NCP car park before the hoards of Saturday shoppers had chance to make life miserable for us. As Chris began to warm the damaged ligaments up I ran up the never-ending corners of the staircase within the car park in order to get the ever rare ‘from above’ shot. Despite the interest of passers by, the security and a few close calls with on coming traffic, Chris Jones cruised through this lengthy boardslide and got himself a cover.

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