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Written by mjskateboard
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 23:37 |
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RAIDER CONTEST
Results, photos and vidoes comming soon ;)
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 August 2009 22:41 )
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Skateboarding in Afghanistan |
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Written by MJ
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Sunday, 17 May 2009 00:35 |
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KABUL, Afghanistan — It looked like an ordinary neighborhood playground: six children tumbling off their skateboards to the tune of laughter. But only hours before, just 20 yards away, the body of a suicide car bomber was sprawled beside a glistening pool of blood.
Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Oliver Percovich’s current skateboard park is a decrepit concrete fountain. His Skateistan school will be eight miles away.
Afghan youth have learned to recover almost instantly from such routine violence. One person determined to inject some normalcy into their lives is Oliver Percovich. A 34-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, he plans to open this country’s first skateboarding school, Skateistan, this spring. He sees sport as a way to woo students into after-school activities like English and computer classes, which are otherwise reserved for the elite.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 May 2009 00:51 )
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