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CELEBRATE THE FREE SPIRIT OF SKATEBOARDING WITH HOLYSTOKED IN BANGALORE ON ‘GO SKATEBOARDING DAY’
~Bring Alive the Street Culture of Skating with HolyStoked, This Saturday, 21st June~
Bangalore, 17th June 2014: HolyStoked celebrates Go Skateboarding Day, a day of camaraderie amongst skateboarders, as they unite enthusiasts from different walks of life. Having transformed Bangalore into India’s skateboarding capital, HolyStoked is back, for the third year in a row, continuing its tradition of skating with skateboarders from over 5 cities.
What started off as a grass root initiative with no plan, has now gained momentum to become one of the most talked about events in the skating fraternity. The previous year saw the participation of iconic cities such as Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai. In this year’s event, HolyStoked has plans of collaborating with some of the biggest sponsors and supporters to make ‘Go Skateboarding Day’ a mega gathering in Bangalore.
Skateboarding is a sport like no other and this unique organization has a core group of 20 skateboarders, artists, musicians, photographers and designers besides 50-100 kids from BPL families living in and around HSR Layout. Holystoked encourages these kids to get a good education by using skateboarding as a tool.
Further to their cause, the HolyStoked skate park in HSR layout, funded by Levis India, was built by the community with the help of about 50 skateboarders from across the world. The culture surrounding skateboarding is filled with independence and this experience gave HolyStoked a much needed boost with skate parks now being built in different parts of India.
The impact on the mainstream has been so powerful that three members from HolyStoked were invited by “Make Life Skate Life” foundation to help build a free skate park in La Paz in Bolivia.
The agenda for the day is as follows:
Saturday, 21st June 2014:
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM The activities at Play Arena include
- Skating - Game of Skate Contest, Fun Skating Contests
- Live Music
3:00 to 6:00 PM at Freedom Park
- Photo contest at Freedom Park
- Skate from Freedom Park to MG Road Metro Station
6:00 PM onwards at Rangoli Metro Centre (MG Road). The activities include:
- Best Skating Trick contest
- Music
- Screening of Skate Movies
- Felicitation of Winners of Various Contests
Freeze the Skate Contest
A photography contest where skaters or anyone present at the event can take a photograph of skateboarding in Freedom Park
- They need to upload it on Instagram with #holystoked in the given time frame (i.e. between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM)
- The top 3 photographs chosen by a Jury will go on to win exciting prizes from HolyStoked.
- Some of the most famous movies/documentaries on Skateboarding will be showcased. For example, the movie funded by Levis International on building of the HolyStoked Skateboarding Park by legendary skate filmmakers of Denmark, Matias and Simon will be showcased.
The events for the day are exciting and bursting with energy as it showcases skating as a form of art. Come and be a part of this revolution, because when someone skates, we all win!
Venue: Play Arena (9 am – 12 pm), Freedom Park / MG Road (3 pm – 8 pm)
