I am starting to bring you posts about skateboarding in Uganda. Today we're learning about it's background.
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History of Skateboarding in Uganda
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Skateboarding is a struggling game in Uganda in finding it's recognition. The first skateboarding Park in East Africa was commissioned in 2004 and finished in 2005 in Kampala slam of Kitintale, Uganda.
It mainly targeted the you kids from whom the talent would be developed. The park construction was funded buy the German national, Titus with a connection from which Mr. Mubiru Jackson had with them. Mubiru is the founder of the Uganda skateboarding Union. Below is their website.
http://www.ugandaskateboardunion.org/contents.html
What about it?
Many kids started subscribing to the Union(USU) which gave them boards to learn the game. Because many of them were coming from a humble background and the received no pay and not even any motivation like the sponsoships in education ended up giving up on the game as the grew up. However, that did not stop number of entrants since it was now looked at as a source of leisure by parents. The parents feared that is their youthful children kept with so much leisure would adopt to bad characters i.e smoking weed or marijuana. Therefore parents started to consider it. In Uganda, street and ghetto kids are easily lured into such behavior. Below is the look of the first skate park.
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However, this has changed to this new on by 2011 but this picture was taken last year though there's a part of it that is not yet complete.
That's the bit I have for today on Stakeboarding in Uganda.
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