Photos & Words: T. Gentsch
It's hard to believe, but it all started with a COS Cup. When the final of Germany's longest-running contest series was held in Ibbenbüren in 2023, there was one person in attendance who ultimately turned out to be responsible for it all. Güldenur Heiland, marketing manager for the fashion brand Carlo Colucci, happened to be among the spectators and quickly came up with the idea that Carlo Colucci should have its own skateboard team! Steffen Krüger, COS mastermind, was the right person for Güldenur to talk to, and just a few weeks later, a team was created from the “more or less” first-place finishers of the COS finals—with me, Gentsch, as the team manager. Let's make it happen!
Anyone who has ever been on a tour like this knows that the days go by faster than you would like them to. On the last evening, in keeping with tradition, we had one last “REAL meal.” Since we had been to a “fish restaurant where the locals go” on the Tornados Tour 2021, Kililis suggested the “meat version” this time. After we arrived at the restaurant in the hills around Limassol, it took less than two minutes for the first meat platters to be served. Between weddings and candlelit dinners for locals, ten skateboarders sat at a long table, and Alex and his homies, in consultation with the restaurant owner, had really pulled out all the stops to sweeten our last evening. This culminated in a cooked sheep's head, on the house, mind you, which everyone was now allowed to eat. Ludi devoted himself to the eyes, Tim and Domi to the brain, and I ate a little cheek for the first time. The bottom line was that after the meal, all that was left was a bare skull.
