How long have you been skating together? How did everything start?

It all started in 2006, when a French guy decided to mimic the ‘Rando-Roller’ from Paris on the streets of Shanghai. This stroll around the city quickly became a great success, gathering up to 150 people on a bi-weekly basis. Unfortunately, officials at the time were not happy about events assembling so many people. One night, the pack was stopped by the police and told not to ‘ice-skate on the roads’ anymore, meaning that the skate night could not be organized in town anymore.

In an escape from authorities and to gain freedom, weekends in Moganshan began to be organised, three hours from Shanghai in bamboo forests, along with various other activities such as downhill biking or canyoning. Around 2007-08, AtomicSkate created the first events in China where people would go down mountains with all sorts of wheels, from Longskate to Inlines, Rollerskates or buttboards. Later on AtomicSkate re-named themselves as Atomic Krew and this was the real beginning of Le Krew.

From then on, we explored all the mountains in a range of 4h from Shanghai, and mapped out most of the tracks we could do, tracks where there are less cars and more incline. Finally the Krew has been formed of various Eras depending on those people joining the crew and those leaving the country.

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Have you been  with the whole crew to  any big Event? Which one is the best for you?

Some of our guys went to a few international races that took place in Chengdu. Besides that, our biggest events are our exploration trips; such as the one we did to the Tibetan part of Sichuan province in 2015 and 2017, South of Zhejiang in 2016 and Taiwan in 2017.