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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 Local youth and international NGO workers in Kabul, Afghanistan have started the country’s first skateboarding school, Skateistan. By introducing the positive and cross-cultural aspects of skateboarding, Skateistan hopes to provide new opportunities to the local youth.
Skateboarding students are admitted based on a number of economic and cultural factors. Skateistan’s curriculum obviously includes skateboarding instruction but also has qualities of project management, life skills, and English. Ultimately the group’s mission is to empower the students to take leadership positions on issues important to them and build social networks that cross ethic barriers. One of the clearest reflections of that mission is that Skateistan teaches both boys and girls.
The group is currently securing a permanent location for their school and recruiting additional staff. While Skateistan is still in its early development, it still qualifies for one of the world’s boldest and most visionary skateboarding missions ever.
Please check out their site and support them in whatever way you’re able.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 September 2008 )
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 |
Great skateparks are within
our grasp.
Skaters for Public Skateparks will be partnered up with the International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) and the Tony Hawk Foundation (THF) to bring the best skatepark development information to the National Recreation & Parks Association (NRPA) Expo in Baltimore.
The NRPA Expo is where people who make decisions about parks come to expand their understanding and learn about new products and services. It’s a great opportunity for SPS, IASC, and the THF to promote best practices in skatepark development.
This will be the third consecutive year that SPS has exhibited at the NRPA Expo with IASC and the THF.
NRPA Expo Baltimore
Wednesday, October 15 to Friday, October 17
Booth 1940
See you there!
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What's Wrong With This Picture? |
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Saturday, 12 July 2008 |
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 It's not every day you see an overweight kid on a skateboard. The TIME magazine cover from June 23, 2008 illustrates this perfectly with their special report on youth obesity. While the article doesn't address the health aspects of skateboarding specifically, it surveys the overall health of American youth. The bottom line is that one-third of American kids are overweight. It's a problem we need to address today.
Skateboarding remains one of the nation's most popular activities among kids and young adults. Parks Departments across the nation know it. According to Recreation Management magazine, Parks Districts put "new skatepark" at number 6 among their planned amenities nation-wide.
It should come as no surprise. Skateparks require no active programming, on-site staff, and almost no operational maintenance. With increasing expectations to do more stuff with less money, Parks are seeing skateparks as an excellent option. A properly design
and constructed concrete skatepark will typically be one of the single most-used
park amenities within a district and yet carry some of the lowest
maintenance costs. Even the initial costs of acquisition are low when
compared to the expense of other active-use areas.
The paramount concern is our own health. Finally, we're seeing people take a physical activity that is already popular "in the wild" and supporting it with facilities that build on that interest.
The time has never been better to start getting serious about your next skatepark.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 July 2008 )
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