Tales: Manuel Margreiter
Telling stories and spinning a yarn with the pro skater from Innsbruck.
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Life is all about the stories you can tell. So in this spirit, we ask the great, the good and the downright talented to tell us their tales of misadventure.
First up, we caught up with Austrian skater and DC Shoes Europe team rider Manuel Margreiter at the launch of his new signature shoe at Fifty Fifty skate store in Bristol and asked him to spin us a yarn from his travels.
"I was in the plane going from Barcelona to Switzerland for the European Championships. The plane takes off in Barca, goes across the sea for five or ten minutes, and then I hear this crazy noise in the engines on both sides.
Then the pilot says, ‘we must have sucked in some seagulls or something and both sides are destroyed. We’re going to try to make it back to the airport in Barca without the engines.’
And then you don’t hear any noise. Nothing. The plane is just floating. I was just hoping we’d make it over the sea – that was one of the gnarliest things.
In the end, we landed in the airport all right without any engines. That was crazy. I was tripping, like ‘fuck! I can’t swim that well!’ I thought I was going to die. All the people in the plane were screaming, like really screaming.
After, I was worried about flying for a little bit, but when I thought really clearly about it, you can’t stop skating and travelling, so there’s no point in being worried. I don’t think about it any more."
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