Skateboarding in Kenya blog

Late last year, the world was struck by a virus called the corona virus SARS-CoV-2. Some places had been locked down quite early (San Francisco, USA and China) but despite this the world had to continue and we as skateboarders had to continue pushing as usual.   About to go skate However, due to the mode of transmission of the virus; it is recommended that people should wear masks you can find more information about why masks are important here . Therefore, the wearing of the masks is not some conspiracy, waiting for the police to remind you doesn't make sense too; you are protecting yourself and your homies around you. I wear one every time I go skating. Here's a photo Personally wearing a mask while skating is the hardest thing I've ever done; Besides climbing Kilimanjaro. The sweating, the heat and the loss of breath makes it hard to concentrate on landing tricks because in between the panting and the loss of breath the rhythm just tends to slip away. For example, I tho

Dude we made it to the RIDE channel! Check out the video I enjoyed this video -- seeing everyone stoked. The visiting Danish pro skaters did countless Never Been Done (N.B.D) tricks off the Uhuru park gap, dude! The video began showing them shred Upark and the manual pad with your normal skate crew. On the other hand, this is a tough article to write since I'm so excited about each and every aspect of the video.      There's also another version of Nairobi on wheels on YouTube here . George did a frontside flip off the stair in Nairobi Uni. It was insane. I can't use words to express how amazing this video was. We are so lucky to relive the best videos which made us kick and push in the first place remember: Wake up , Park days , Play skate by Ibra and Otioli and the other O.g's :D. Being a skateboarder is amazing in our time don't you think? Seriously this video deserves being the category wake up is in. What do you think?

There's a skate park in Karen. No way! Yes way! :D In the Hub Mall, i discovered an amusement park called Funscapes -- after one of my paintball matches. At that time, the games were fewer and rather expensive. The employees were so friendly to me on that day. Maybe because it was my first time there? I cannot say. After paying a game and losing pretty badly. They invited me to skate out back. It was just an empty place with a tiled concrete floor. I was so exhausted; i couldn't land tricks so well but i managed to show them a thing or two about skateboarding. I didn't know that very spot would be a skate park one day. No wonder they encouraged me to skate there. Funscapes is an amusement park with slot machines with a variety of games to pick from from Time crisis, Armageddon, Batman, the ones for picking prizes that i don't seem to remember at the moment, a jungle gym of some sort en cetera. They have a couple of branches in the Adams Arcade, Two rivers mall, Thik

I'll dedicate this article to hilarious or not so hilarious questions I'm asked by random people. They could be out of curiosity or just to annoy you either way. They are interesting and very common. How would you reply to these and what other questions have you been asked a part from these? "Naweza fika tao na hiyo kitu?" (Can i reach Nairobi with that thing?) "How long did it take you to learn?" "Are there ropes on your feet?" "You skated from home to here with that?" "Where do you skate?" "Have you ever broken a bone?" "How many times have you fallen down?" A treat from Adam. Check out his store here . Image credit: Adam Image credit: Robotatertotcomics https://robotatertot.tumblr.com/ Image credit: Adam

Been skating for a while like me, not really? One thing's for sure your going to go through so many shoes. So obviously you'll get holes in your shoes as you skate. This happens because as you drag your foot up the board it wears out or just by kicking and pushing. You can even know which tricks someone is doing. Remember kickflips and heelflips finish those shoes in a very specific way. Why not extend their life? Saving you some cash. In this article, I'll talk about that. I decided to write this article to share some of the ways. Fighting the wear! and tear! First, Shoe goo,  this is popular among skateboarders. After putting it on your shoes, it feels like rubber. However, after applying it on your shoes. You'll have to wait for a week for it to solidify well. I've never used it before but I'll consider trying it out. My alternatives: I've been looking keenly at other ways of fixing shoes or rather looking for products that can substitute the goo by s

I started this blog a couple of years ago. Now, I'm pretty excited that its up and running and that you are reading the words I'm dropping here. Yeah i said dropping :D. Anyways, today I'm gonna talk about trick mastery I've been working on for the past year or so and sharing what I've learned. I've been recording data of how many times i can do a trick if i was asked to do it 5 times. I found really interesting results within the time period specified. Frequency of ollie as days pass. Green dot is a confidence interval seems to be stagnated at 5. Photo credit: Sam On photo Shuyin Ben I'm sure you're asking yourself why the heck I'm doing this?  In the simplest way possible. I'm trying to get good at skateboarding, i don't believe in the 10,000 hour rule. Paying attention and learning from mistakes is way better said in a previous article .  On the other hand,  there has been this thing pro skaters have been saying &