Zion Wright.

The Right Stuff.

Zion is from the awesomely named town of Jupiter, Florida. He is pro for Real and competed for the US team in the Olympics. Vans is current shoe sponsor. Interestingly, Zion left Nike to ride for them. He's equally adept at crushing a handrail or skating a big concrete park.

It was hot on Thursday so I checked out the skatepark for the first time in a while. In a pleasant surprise, the lights were on. The city never turned them on last year. I rolled around for a bit and did OK. I think I'm in this odd slump involving being old and breaking in some new shoes. That's how it goes.

No. 4000.

This is the 4000th post on Vert Is Dead. That's too much scanning. Thanks for all the support over the years and sorry this week was kind of clunker. I intended to do a little more and ran short on time to fill things out.

Blunt: Thrasher - July 2017 Volume 38 Number 7

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