The absolute best thing about working on the World Skateboarding Tour is seeing the photography filter through in the days and weeks after you get back home.
Video may well be the medium of the day, but photography has the ability to freeze moments in time for perpetuity in a way which invites the viewer in.
Photography is silence in a noisy world, as we have suggested elsewhere previously.
That has value in the times in which we live, we think you will agree.
And so with that said, we shall not contribute any more noise other than to leave you with our selection of moments in love from a rowdy fortnight in Rome- and some numbers for you to roll around, while you drink in the stills.
Park photography/ Bryce Kanights & Street Photography/ Kenji Haruta
400,000: prize money in $USD distributed.
(^Alexis Sablone photo by Raisa Abal)
385: skateboarders entered.
61: nations represented including, for the first time, Algeria, Gabon, Niger and Nigeria.
692,000: YouTube views over the fortnight’s action.
96.33: Mizuho Hasegawa’s new all-time leading score in Women’s Park.
21.86: the margin of victory for Australia’s Chloe Covell in Women’s Street- a new record.
4: the number of all-time top 10 Park scores Issei Sakurai added in 2 nights of action.
3: scores in excess of 92 points that Sky Brown delivered during Women’s Park finals.
49,351: the number of WSR ranking points Sora Shirai currently leads the field by in Men’s Street.
Next stop, Paraguay!