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JEAN-MARC JOHANNES: The Art of Street Skateboarding.
Jean-Marc Johannes is the best street skateboarder in Africa, and, if we do say so ourselves, Jean-Marc has also become one of the first skateboarders in Africa to have mastered the art of being a street skateboarder. However, even though Jean-Marc is literally riding in style as a grand winner of international Gold, Silver and…
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ADIDAS GAVE OUT FREE SHOES TO UGANDA SKATEBOARD SOCIETY!
Uganda Skateboard Society is not new to the African skateboarding scene, the name rings a loud bell. Not because Tony Hawk felt it in his hearts to make a heartful note about the collective on his instagram, urging everyone in the skateboarding industry to head to Uganda to learn the savage way in which they…
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ETHIOPIA SKATE: KONSO
Far back in 2018, skateboarding friends from all over the world came together in Ethiopia, friends like Skate Like Lion and CARIBU304 got together and built a very solid and beautiful community skatepark in Konso, a small town in the south of Ethiopia. The following year, Ethiopia Skate, the umbrella organisation when it comes to everything skateboarding…
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RIGHT HERE: CLUED SKATEBOARDING
Watch “Right Here”, a spanking new skate edit Filmed & Edited by Chris Nderitu, founder and CEO of Clued Skateboarding based in the city of Capetown. For his latest skateboarding film, Chris Nderitu decided to pull together all the skateboarding heavyweights that currently hold the Johannesburg and Capetown skateboarding scene down, hoping that this could…
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Togo is finally getting a skatepark!
Skateboording is finally getting the recognition it deserves in Togo, Lome after 6 years of the country not fully recognizing skateboarding as a sport that should be developed and supported. The history of skateboarding in Togo is as old as the history of the importation and exportation. In the sense that if you were to…
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Houda Ait lahcen: African Skateborder Of the Year 2023!
Skating is Risky!™️ is the unification of everything African Skateborading on the African continent. Every year we create a friendly compeptition between skateboarders around the African continent, taking to our instagram for a public vote of who would be African skateboarder of the year! Houda Ait lahcen is Skating is Risky African Skateboarder of the year,…
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Skating is Risky!™️ x Others Skateboarding
Following a long awaited collaboration between lovers of skateboarding in two different African countries, South Africa and Nigeria, we present the collaboration between Others Skateboarding, a subsidiary of Others Worldwide LLC and Skating is Risky!™️ The collaboration features a diverse range of designs that the two brands felt were good enough to go public with…
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BLOW MY VIBE: FAR FROM OVER PT2
Watch Donz new music video “Blow my vibe” shot in Johannesburg and driected by Arinzechukwu Patrick. Donz is a skateboarder and active member of the Rhino crash collective a.k.a Rhino Gang, he is a rapper and beat producer alongside his other team mates Lil Plug and NollieGhost who are also skateboarders based in the Johannesburg…
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LURKY: FAR FROM OVER PT1
We became aware of the JHB skateboarding scene through our Instagram page and were immediately fascinated by the stories emerging, especially the leitmotif of doing it yourself in Johannesburg. DIY seems to be the core idealogy of the Johannesburg skate scene and this DIY culture is seen in the creation of Soweto Skate Society by…
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RELAPSE!
Community is as much about shared otherness as it is cultural connection, and romanticizing youth culture only tells us a fraction of the collective story of those within it. Co-directed by Justyna Obasi and Arinzechukwu Patrick, new short Relapse is a skate film where the skating is just a scratch on the surface – a real-life character…