A subtitle might read, “The Cynical and Stoic Philosophy of Skateboarding.” It might have. On Friday evening, May 18, 2012, several rail-slides were executed at the base of the Zeno of Citium statue in Larnaka, Cyprus. I nodded my head in approval upon seeing these (even though the skaters did not at all require my approval). Zeno (344-266BCE) hailed from the ancient city of Citium which is just north of present-day Cyprus. He has been publicly memorialized, a statue put up who-knows-how-long-ago (working on this) in Larnaka. Today, skate-boarders perform ollie impossibles near and rail-slides on (among other sweet moves) the immortalized Zeno. Below is rather grainy footage of a couple sweet rail slides. Skate or die, Zeno.
05/19/2012
Zeno’s Rail Slides: Skate or Die, Zeno
By Aaron Barth
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Aaron Barth
The Edge of the Village 
May 20th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Nice looking statue. Did the skate borders have any artwork on their boards?
August 20th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
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