If you’re into snowboarding and live in Shanghai then here’s an event for you over the weekend.
Mellow Parks is a group of snowboarders based up north near Beijing and run the snow parks at Nanshan, Xiling, and Qiaobo. This weekend they’re headed to Shanghai to show off their first snowboard movie production called “Happy Niu [...]
With the amount of wankers wearing shirts with polo players on them you could be mistaken that Polo is a popular past time in Shanghai. However, Shanghai is a terrible place if you’re a polo player. The lack of open spaces and shortage of young fillies to hire is such a conundrum for locals and [...]
On the weekend more than 50 skateboarders pulled up a few boxes and rails and were showing their street skating skills just outside the Shanghai Science and Technology Park metro station. I’m not sure whether this is a regular event or a one-off but I pulled up a seat and took a few snaps.
With no [...]
This is a quick video showing how it is to ride through the streets of Shanghai on a bike. The quality was crap but I was riding one handed and using a point and shoot camera.
Yes, that is a basket on the front of my bike. Yes, it’s what dudes do in Shanghai. No, that [...]
This week I went to the midweek touch football (that’s touch rugby or 6 down for you South Africans) at Huo Che Tou Stadium. It’s been a while since running anywhere except on a treadmill and I haven’t ran faster than a canter since dodging some traffic on Beijing Lu about a month ago so [...]
