
Worldwide Skateboarding Development: Saudi Arabia Scene Check!
Worldwide Skateboarding Development: Saudi Arabia Scene Check!
The international growth and geographical spread of skateboarding as an activity through the turn of the millennium and beyond has been a phenomenon to observe.
It could be said that skateboarding’s greatest single achievement was that leap out of heartlands and into everywhere- a fact reflected in the 65 nations (and counting) currently represented on the World Skateboarding Tour.
Veteran WST Judge Dani Lebron and World Skate’s own Martin Karas recently took up an invite from the Saudi Arabian Extreme Sports Federation to host a two-day World Skate Judging Seminar, consisting of practical evaluation exercises and judging theory which gave scene builders like Yazeed Almeghrabi, Fahda Alkhayyal, Ruba Bawazir and Shareef Masarani the wherewithal to begin running the kind of national events which will help draw their nascent scene together and build it up as other neighbouring nations already have.
With this seed-planting project completed, we circled back with our host Mr Yahya Alameer in order to find out a little bit more about the past, present and future of skateboard culture in Saudi Arabia.
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