Tauras Venture Vilnius
We ended the sesh at the church and had heard from our man Vytas there was a contest in town. Not knowing what to expect we figured we had to check it out. I mean, how many times do you happen to be in Vilnius and there is a Red Bull event in town? We cruised the Dodge to the high part of town where we found a big-ass historic building worn out overlooking the city. We thought it was gonna be some kind of rail jam but it turned out to be a fully fledged freakshow. Immediately we noticed people weren’t rocking their normal gear but all kinds of crazy contraptions. It was a 3-man team format and there were about 24 of them. Of course our boys had to join in on it cause the setup looked superfun on Tauras hill. A flatbox and a donkeydick into a gastank or stepdownbox and the finish was a pondskim, far from what we expected. People were flying up and over all over the place. We laughed so much all the while thinking you’re gonna be all over the streets you see this madness go down. Funny shit.
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- Right on top of the hill looking down you had a sweet view over the city and the dropin of the site.
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- Getting subscrided as team number 23. I filled out the forms and signed for Cees and G’s participation.
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- This is common dog fashion on the streets of Vilnius. Actually it’s not fashion it’s mandatory I found out later.
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- DJ Swix bumping knuckles with Don Shithorse wearing that freshly received beanie from the comp over his BLV/NTHNG one. It had a puma logo on one side and a Tauras Venture thing on the other side.
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- Sausage slide!
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- Dropping with a wavy suit.
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- Robed men going full tilt on the first run.
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- These guys came all the way from Mexico, all the way from Mexico.
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- Brigitte, designer of the Stop Spot guide book. It was the final thing she made in graphic school. Here’s she pictured wearing Vytas his jacket while he got into the wet site.
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- I went to the dumper and this loosely on my head places beanie fell into some nasty chunks. It was sad.
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- Loco boys getting hyped. Just look at the shoe to ski ducktape job.
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- Hi-five!
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- This guy straightlined the course and gapped the whole takeoff from the tanker to gain speed for what lay ahead.
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- Ballistic mode. Honestly, it was more of a ‘Ter land ter zee en in de lucht’ episode than a shredcomp. The aforementioned is a Dutch tv-show where people try to clear a course in all kinds of weird outfits and vehicle thingies. Like a soap-box race I suppose.
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- There were actual kids throwing down. This is Paulius Morkunas if I’m not mistaken spinning out of the donkey.
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- The white crosses with number 13 were up.
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- Have you ever seen a cross firecracking?
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- White crossman on the Forum laying in the icepool. You’ll be seeing some more crosses and Forum real soon.
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- Team theMustachio with Cees Wille, Gerben Verweij and Vytautas Vaičaitis about to hit it. Sausage bgp’s!
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- Cees laying into a frontlipper on the donkey.
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- There were actually people doing cool shit. Like here where Aivaras Dambrauskas I think gets his homies to hold a fence so he can get bendy on it.
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- Pink man tailgrabbin.
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- Our G man watersliding.
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- Vytas decided to throw down a frontflip off the box on his second run.
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- Homies hyped on getting wet.
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- One of these three guys did 3 frontflips in a line. Of course they had to celebrate in true style hitting the hot tubs.
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- We got some real nice crispy pancakes covered in sugar. Tim was so hyped he got them twice. He still has his beanie too.
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- A mellow spot right next to the contest site.
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- It was time to pick up our first addition to the crew, Max de Vries. Little homey flew all by himself from Eindhoven to Vilnius. G is stoked the little man is in town. He was still a bit sick from the whole Kaunertal battle followed by ISPO madness but wasn’t gonna let him stop that. He was stoked.
More of our Lithuanian exploration soon.
