Skaters

Quai D'Orsay, Paris, 1995

Skater jumping makeshift barrier while being photographed

This is just outside the spectacular Musee D'Orsay in Paris. The two guys here were doing skate tricks for the crowd outside the museum, when the girl in the background (very young, very pretty) started photographing them. From then on they were competing to impress her - first jumping over greater and greater distances, then adding more and more mid-air spins until the only way of landing was in great, long, flesh-scraping skids.

The fair-haired one in the foreground finally got her phone number.

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