Rip Zinger is a well-known street-culture photographer in Tokyo. In fact, he just had a book launching for New York City in Shibuya and all kinds of skateboarding celebrities showed up.

While I was in Japan, all battered and bruised up, he kept wanting to go shoot pics with me. Finally I was able to ride one day and we set off to a few spots I had seen while riding through Shibuya.

Some spots were busts, like this one, where I only got one run on it.

Other spots were in parks and aside from the waves of pedestrians passing through, were pretty much fair game. I was surprised to see this pic after I blasted a 180 off a sidewalk hip. Pretty high!

Here’s a pretty popular BMX spot. A nice steep bank, perfect for a 3 tap.

Thanks so much for taking me around Rip! When you come to NYC, come hang out!

- Prolly