Skateboarding in Kenya blog

Watu wa video part walifika finals (People with video parts reached the finals. Read along to final out. Deecy to the right Photo credit: Shuyin Ben Ian's turn Photo credit: Shuyin Ben The Nairobi KING of S.K.A.T.E was held under the museum hill bridge close to the National Museums of Kenya (Museum in Nairobi, Kenya) ; The road underneath was barred off since it’s under construction. However, it also diverts to an entry into Nairobi University (One of the biggest universities in Kenya). Though during the contest “watu karibu wamangiwe na magari” since cars were just passing through and mind you they didn’t hoot alerting us that they wanted us to move away. Despite using the blocked off route to avoid traffic or go to Nairobi university was probably their aim or not. The contest started at around 2.p.m, I wasn’t there during the start but masketah(skateboarders) were halfway through the match when I arrived. Leo and Victor (Judges) watching the participants ...

How many kickflips can you do in a row? Would you want to know? I’ll try explain the next best thing of how you can figure that out. You just need a pen and paper or Microsoft office in your phone ; I used to use Polaris office in my smart phone. In game of S.K.A.T.E, the word skate has 5 letters right? What if you played the same game with a single trick for instance, backside 180. Depending on how much you’ve practiced the trick your results will differ between you and your opponent(s). That consistency can also change as time passes by. These factors are what my skate project are addressing. I made a YouTube playlist that explains how I observe your trick consistency in detail. Instead, of going through that again. I’ll spend this time explaining why this is important.   The skate project Photo is from the channel Sliceace Firstly, you’ll be able to answer the question I have begun asking. How many kickflips can you do in a row? Since you’ll be recording your...

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...