Lots of people were there, Esk8 Squad Central Florida, Esk8 Squad Orlando, and a crew we met down there called Skunk Ape Skates. They were cool and gave me beer, then made me turn off my cam while talking to them which would have made a killer wrap up to the video but i decided to respect.
I made this with my Hero 5 Black and gimbal, Premier CC, filmed on a Ninebot Z10.
had a great turnout too!
…did any Scientologists manage to stop you and inform you why esk8 is bad and Scientology is good?
It was an awesome ride! Now I have to fix a magnet retaining clip that came loose when I hit a big bump.
Confirming, biggest group ride I’ve been a part of. So many boards we drew maybe a bit too much attention. 
its only going to get bigger. Pretty soon we’ll have our own critical mass. The scene is growing fast!
Wait, the cops showed up?!
they did indeed.
i’m not in this pic, i was down the street with part of the squad that had been previously spoken to. Then we took off and met up with these guys later.
Why did they stop you?
“too large of a group” they wanted us to break up into no more than 10 person groups because of traffic and we needed permits for larger groups to hold up traffic.
“riding on the sidewalk” when there were crowds, and
“riding in the street and holding up traffic”, and
“not waiting on the crosswalk people to cross”, i think a lot of people just blew through the crosswalk and just sort of wove through the pedestrians.
Though i’m pretty sure that the final straw was when somebody in the group wouldn’t stop when asked, and i think somebody was yelling at a pedestrian for some reason.
There was over an hour of sequential ride footage and i dropped it to around 15 minutes because 1) some people were doing things i don’t want to endorse and 2) nobody will ever watch a video that’s an hour long on youtube. Attention spans are barely 11 minutes on these on a good day, which is why i use music to edit them down and make them exciting since i’m not tishaun fahie and can’t exactly make everything look utterly amazeballs like he does. I will get there, though.
On the one NYC ride I went on there was a ton of this, but for the most part we followed most of the rules of the road. At one point i was with a smaller group and some guy did yell at us for not know how to skate from the back of a taxi that was about it.
I feel like if theres gonna be a really unreasonable rule about ESK8s its gonna be because of a group ride.
Among the things i cut out are, in no particular order:
