Vans Video Update from China Part 7: Chubba?

Posted Nov. 22, 2011, 12:13 p.m. /

Welcome back to the 7th part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 if you missed them.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong
for the upcoming Vans video.

Welcome to the rest of your life. Or at least the rest of the photo fun from the demo/signing in Chengdu.
Today, class, we take a deeper look at the hubba. As you may or may not know that every slant ledge down stairs is called
a hubba after the famous proving ground, Hubba Hideout, in San Francisco. The spot got it's name because crackheads
would smoke their crack under the steps and the cute nickname for crack is hubba. Thus, every hubba everywhere is
subliminally promoting crack smoking. Even this demo hubba in China.
Let me ask you this, is a hubba in China still called a hubba? Or can we call it a Chubba?
Sometimes we like to say Hooooba instead of Hubba because it sounds funny.
Other funny sounding words are:
-cucumber
-colostomy bag
-Mozambique
-Uranus
-Sacagawea

Sadly, there's nothing funny about saying goodbye. Ask Boys II Men.
And our Shanghai Express is pulling into the station. The guys are already on a plane home.
We've got another day or two of street skating photos
and Thrasher's 30th anniversary photo show in China and that is that.
We never speak of this again.

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