Illuminated Chronicles: Skateboarding in India Episode 3 (by Levi’s)
Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
Levi’s has released the third and final installment of their Skateboarding In India series, for which they linked up with the local Holystoked skateboarding team in Bangalore to help the build the first free public skate park in the country. You can view Episode 1 and Episode 2.
In this episode we view the finished concrete park, which professional skate park builder Daryl Nobbs says is better than most parks available in the UK (burn!).
Skateboarders Chet Childress, Al Partanen, Stefan Janoski, Omar Salazar, Lennie Burmeister, and Rob Smith skate the finished project to prove just how well it rides which is about as smooth as this video:
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Illuminated Chronicles: Skateboarding in India Episode 2 (by Levi’s)
Illuminated Chronicles: Skateboarding in India Episode 1 (by Levi’s)
Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
First of all I didn’t know Levi’s did this whole skateboarding thing. Did you? If so you are wiser and cooler than I.
Directed and filmed by Simon Weyhe & Mathias Nyholm…this is inspirational work. I found myself fist pumping often! Everybody involved from the filmmakers to the skaters to Levi’s should get a high five.
To inject a diverse and infectious culture like skateboarding into the rich Indian civilization is powerful. A whole group of youth will discover a unique voice equipped with a liberating perspective. These are the humble building blocks to dissent…not careless teenagers rebel without a cause that anger is fleeting. Rather a genuine and authentic questioning of the dominate culture’s values.
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