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Skate and Deploy

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Skate

Caleb Beyers and a twenty four pack of Vancouver’s greatest skateboarders invaded Western Canada on a Coors Light Coach Bus for the Color Magazine Skate and Deploy contest series, and lived to tell.

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wordsby caleb beyers

“On what was basically the only patch of dry concrete at the East Van Skate Plaza, on a typically drizzly May morning, two dozen of Vancouver’s most elite and gentlemanly skaters loosened up with a friendly game of S.K.A.T.E. In spite of the consistent one-upmanship, the exercise wasn’t about blood or bragging rights, it was simply a way to stay warm while waiting for a ride to Whistler, B.C., for the first installment of Color’s Skate and Deploy—the classiest and most refined skate contest Western Canada has ever seen…”