Destroy Like Roy 2018 | Team "Keep Pushing"

For this type of tour, it’s not just essential that your team can skate under pressure, but also that they have a wide variety of skills. You should have at least one dude willing to skate huge spots, one tech skater, and someone who rips on transition. It’s also helpful to have an all-rounder who not only skates everything, but that is also willing to do some of the gnarly non “skate-related” challenges. In our case, I actually just assigned several of these tasks to myself with the help of Fabian Michel! Our team featured Josh Junkes, Dominic Wenzel, David Neier and Alex Ring with the help of Christian Blümle behind the camera and myself taking photos and helping with filming.

I could write a book about all the crazy shit that went down from the moment we started, but that would probably be a bit too much. So, here’s some of the highlights:

- We needed to buy a melon the night before because the challenge was to build a “melon helmet”.
- David Neier was quick to volunteer for the “take a shit in public” challenge, but his only concern was having toilet paper. Being the good TM I am, I had a roll with me and David marked the challenge complete.
- For night challenges, always remember to bring a light for the camera!
- You should have at least 2 full-time filmers on your trip.
- Every spare minute should be used to study the task book.

After the first 17 hours or so, I had a good feeling about our team. The guys had been wreaking havoc and collecting points until about 3 in the morning before we finally called it a day. The next morning, we were up and headed straight to a concrete park to film 20+ transition tricks. Even after all this, a glance at our task book revealed quite a few single & city tasks left to complete. Around 4pm that day, the crew started to get that feeling you get at school when you have a big exam coming and you still haven’t studied – it was crunch time!

At this point, the crew was getting seriously exhausted – but that didn’t stop them from going hard until the end! We easily clocked 1000 points in the last two hours alone. With one more tattoo on my body and many great experiences for our crew later, team “Keep Pushing” landed in second place! Mad respect to teams “Fly Voltage” and “Dream” who scored a first and third place. Special thanks to Titus Erfurt, Tilman, and all the other crazy dudes who came up with this amazing event – you rock!