The Skate park jam 2016 went down at the Shangilia Skate park in Nairobi, Kenya by Skate-aid.org on the 9th August from 2:30p.m. Those who came early were given Neff watches for keeping time – they were passed out by Daniel Gluche. This all happened as I was travelling to the there. I decided to help out in the smooth running of the contest; I hadn’t skated for 2 weeks give or take. Meanwhile, at the park there was good turnout of skaters and some spectators. Not like in the previous contests where only a handful people had arrived early. After a relatively short time, the skate jam breakdown was established. The participants who were playing, the judges namely Jack from the Uganda Skateboard Union(USU) and Ben from the Skateboarding Society of Kenya (S.S.K) and two of the volunteers Tanguy; He was initially a judge then he chose to film the whole event instead. From inquiring from Timothy – the time keeper, he was recovering from past injuries. Afterwards, came signing up of
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