Skateboarding in Kenya blog

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...

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...