Vans Video Update from China Part 8: Final Showdown

Posted Nov. 23, 2011, 6:03 p.m. /

Welcome back to the 8th and final part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 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.

Today we received a postcard from Acosta. It read: These photos are from the last two days the guys spent in Shanghai.
Aside from a few visits to the bootleg mall, tons of people gathering around our sessions,
a lot of skateboarding has been going down.
Rowley meet up and skated a demo straight out of a 15 hour flight, then proceeded to skate hard for the next two days straight.
We skated around town today, hit some street spots up.
We even hit the raddest spot/skatepark next to the river.
This place was a perfect spot to get our last skate session and wrap up the tour.
We then hit the Thrasher 30th anniversary photo show. The crew is ready to go home...and so am I. Mission accomplished."

We assume that when Anthony says, "Mission accomplished,"
it means more than when this guy said it.
How could it not?
And the fact that we don't have to see that dude around at any skate spots anymore is perhaps
what we're most thankful for this Thanksgiving Day.
That and all the Chinese memories we made on this filming mission.
Thanks, China! We owe you a beer.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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