Video: Red Bull's Skate Team Takes to Kyrgyzstan in Search of New Terrain

Heading East, where the skate is greener.

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Red Bull as a company have their fingers in a lot of pies; Formula 1, other forms of motorsport, boats, the air races, the soap box derbies. And they still find the time to have a skateboard team that shreds too. The latest installment of the Children of the Sun series sees the team—which includes Brian Delatorres, Aiden Campbell, Charles Collet, Manu Etchegoyen, Tjark Thielker, and Maxim Kruglov—travel around Kyrgyzstan, which sits between Kazakhstan and China.

The journey starts and ends in the capital Bishkek, which is also the most populated area of Kyrgyzstan, and the place with the most skateable areas, which obviously helps on a skate trip. But while traveling the country and finding towns that are mostly abandoned since the country won independence from Russia, they do find an abandoned half pipe, which they clearly have to shred before leaving, which they do. 

Check out the video above, and enjoy the skating and the scenery of the young country of Kyrgyzstan.

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