I found this spot last summer when i was skating near the gap outside the terminal 1 building and i noticed this spot but it was time for me to leave. a few weeks ago i came to this spot again with a couple of skaters, Omar Amir, Mohamed Amgad and Ahmed Maged and we filmed some sick tricks on these gaps. And now the spot is being visited by a lot of skaters in Cairo. The floor is a slippery as butter and from the shininess of the marble platform you can see your face. It has several gaps with decent run up and decent landing. A lot of tricks can be done in this spot. Please take a look at the pictures at the gallery.

Obour Spot

This spot has been around for a while but i happened to just get photos of it a few hours ago. It has a couple of benches that you can grind or possibly manual on them. There’s also another part of this spot where its all gaps and sets and a small but very steap round bank. It also has an 8 set with good runup and good landing aswell. There is also a huge 3 set possible as long as 3 sets from wallenberg but some people might not find the run up enough for them. However  i have tried this gap and seems to work fine with me. Here are some pictures of the spot

Bank Skate Spot

This spot is located on the nasr road about 2 mins from tiba, its also very near to the Nasr City Ahly Club.
A lot of people have seen this spot but never really got the chance to skate. I took the risk to be the first to skate and observe the security outcome. It turns out that one of my friends from school happens to live there. I talked to him and asked him if he can ask the securities to allow me to skate the spot. The conclusion ended up being that we can only skate on Friday after 4pm ( to be honest its better than not skating it at all).

The moment u lay your eyes on this spot you will suddenly be confused. This spot looks nothing like any other Egyptian skate spot. It has a lot of steep ledges as shown in the pictures below, the ground is good and you can easily wall ride on those steep ledges/banks. Here’s something for our advanced skaters, next to the ledges there is a 10 set and an 8 set both with enough run-up. There is also a marble ledge with the height of 40cm.  All ledges/banks are marble, however you do need to wax the obstacle before doing any grinds/slides.

Add those spots to your guide because they are all very amusing to skate.
Be sure to contact me if you are not sure on any directions of locations of any spot on Oozy [at] skateimpact [dot] com or 0111316762

Oozy.

Tre Flip Position
For a tre flip, what you want to do is you want to put your back foot – and you want to put your toes hanging off a little bit – right where it starts to curve. When you first learn, you want to put your front foot close together so you actually get the spin. And once you start getting them down you want to move your foot up more and more – and the higher your foot is up, the more control you have over it. You might flip a little bit slower but it’s easier to control it.

How to Tre Flip
As you’re popping down, the whole thing’s with your back foot – just scoop back behind you with your back foot, and you do a little kick out the front. You don’t need to kick too hard – just your ankle – and it will start to rotate like that. It’s pretty much like a scissor kick: once your back foot goes behind you, your front foot goes in front of you. And then you land it.

How to Practice a Tre Flip

Don’t ever practice them stationary. Just practice it moving – because once you get them moving, then you’ll get them stationary. It’s weird, but that’s what happens

Common Problems with the 360 flip

A problem that a lot of people have is that either the board goes in front of them or the board goes behind them. It’s usually because you’re leaning too far forward or too far back, and if it over-flips, just don’t kick as hard. When you first learn them you might just start doing varial flips and it will keep hitting you – you just have to work out how to scoop with your back foot to get it all the way around. You don’t even have to worry about the flip, just worry about the scoop until it spins all the way.

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions logon to the Forum and get informed.

Description:
While rolling the skateboarder jumps and turn his/her body 180 degrees frontside and the board turns a frontside 180 as well.

Technique:
1. Push a few times to get going.

2. Set up your feet in the same position you would for a regular ollie. Bend your knees and get ready to do a frontside 180.

3. Turn your shoulders slightly in the opposite direction the you’re going to spin. This is a wind up.

Sequence contribution:
Performed by : Oliver Morcos
Filmed by : Cherif Herrawi

Spot:
Video: Tiba Mall – Cairo

4. Pop the tail as hard as you can and unwind your shoulders and continue to turn them until they have rotated 180 degrees frontside. The momentum will help you rotate. When you pop it should be like a normal ollie, unwind and turn your feet with the board.

5. That previous step is written all weird. It’s hard to explain how a 180 works. Just try it a few times.

6. Land riding switch or fakie and roll away.

Additional Help:

Problem: I can’t rotate the complete 180.
Reason: You are not spinning fast enough, or you are not going high enough to complete the rotation.
Solution: Don’t forget to wind up for the trick. Unwind your shoulders and be sure to follow through with your legs. Also, if you aren’t going high enough, try to pop your tail harder and jump higher. When I first tried this trick I could only turn about 90 degrees and would slide the rest, or kickturn the rest. After practice I learned to do the whole 180, so keep trying.

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions logon to the Forum and get informed.

* Set your back foot on the heel side corner of the tail, your front foot behind the bolts with your toes hanging off the side.
* Bend your knees, jump to the back popping the board with a scoop to make it start turning.
* Quickly take your front foot off the board to be out of the board’s way.
* Watch the board until it’s nearly half turned, straighten up your legs to catch it.

*Note: In F/s pop shove-it the board turns behind you, this is why you have to jump to the back to stay over it and land.

Sequence contribution
Performed by : Ahmed Mourad
Filmed by : Cherif Herrawi
Spot : Tiba Mall – Cairo

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions logon to the Forum and get informed.

Video contribution
Performed by :Sharief Moghazy
Filmed by :Cherif Herrawi

Spot
Video: 24/7 – Alex

The frontside flip is a combination of an ollie, a frontside 180 , and a kickflip. Once you get your kickflips down, and your frontside 180 ollies, you’re going to try and get the flip right.

1. Make sure you know your ollie and you get your kickflips everytime you do them.

2. Set your front foot up at a 30 degree angle instead of a 45 degree angle like the kickflip.

3.Put your back foot on the back concave towards your backside.

4. Pop and scoop your back foot and turn 180.

5. Flick at more of a down angle then a kickflip so it flips under you and dosen’t go over your legs

6. Stick your landing good and hard, try it bolts every time. Make sure you really stomp it down or you’ll find yourself kicking out

* One day you’re going to try and get the flip right, like Sharief Moghazy shows you.

NOTE: A. Already have your body turned halfway so you don’t have to turn full 180
B. NO MATTER HOW MANY TRIES YOU DO…. YOU KEEP GETTING BETTER AT IT. Don’t think that you are never going to do it!

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions logon to the Forum and get informed.

Spot
Tiba Mall – Cairo

1) Start with your back foot on the tail and your front foot right under the bolts. Your front foot should be slanted just a little.
2) Bend your knees and pop your board.

3) Flick your front foot off the tip of the nose making it flip.
4) Suck up your legs for the catch. Try and keep your feet over the bolts.
5) Land and absorb the shock and roll away.

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions logon to the Forum and get informed.

Spot
Tiba Mall – Cairo

This trick is pretty easy to learn, but you have to learn how to ollie first. It consists of poping your board with a scoop, while your front foot gets out of the way. Pop shove it is making the board turn under you 180 degrees, while your facing the same direction.

1. Set up your feet as in the picture below having your back foot on the upper corner, your front foot before the front bolts hanging off the heel side. You can put your front foot at about 45 degrees which makes it more easier to land.

2. Bend your knees and be ready to jump.

3. Jump and pop your board with your back foot scooping it underneath you to make it turn.

4. Quickly, get your front foot out of the way of the board.

Note: Your front foot doesn’t drag like the ollie, it just gets out of the way.

5.Suck your legs up, and watch the board turning.

6. Before the half turn ends, straighten up your legs, catching the board with your front foot.

7. Land the trick, and congratulate yourself

Sequence contribution
Performed by : Cherif Herrawi
Filmed by : Collin Thomas

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions logon to the Forum and get informed.

Spot
Video: Tiba Mall – Cairo

The Ollie is probably the most important trick in skateboarding since it makes you able to jump with your skateboard. This is the most basic street trick and most of the tricks depend on it this is why it should be your first trick to learn after being able to push.

It is a quite hard trick which needs patience, lots of practice and time to learn it pretty well. Do not lose hope if you cannot do it after 3-4 weeks of trying, it takes sometime to perfect it and be able to ollie over stuff.

Allan Ollie Gelfand was the first guy who did an ollie on vert ramp in 1977. Rodney Mullen was the first who took it onto flat ground.

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Description:
While rolling the skateboarder jumps and turn his/her body 180 degrees backside and the board turns a backside 180 as well.

Technique:
1. Push a few times to get going.

2. Set up your feet in the same position you would for a regular ollie. Bend your knees and get ready to do a backside 180.

3. Turn your shoulders slightly in the opposite direction the you’re going to spin. This is a wind up.

Sequence contribution
Performed by : Yehia Ossama
Filmed by : Cherif Herrawi Spot
Video: Tiba Mall – Cairo

4. Pop the tail as hard as you can and unwind your shoulders and continue to turn them until they have rotated 180 degrees backside. The momentum will help you rotate. When you pop it should be like a normal ollie, unwind and turn your feet with the board.

5. That previous step is written all weird. It’s hard to explain how a 180 works. Just try it a few times.

6. Land riding switch or fakie and roll away.

Additional Help:

Problem: I can’t rotate the complete 180.
Reason: You are not spinning fast enough, or you are not going high enough to complete the rotation.
Solution: Don’t forget to wind up for the trick. Unwind your shoulders and be sure to follow through with your legs. Also, if you aren’t going high enough, try to pop your tail harder and jump higher. When I first tried this trick I could only turn about 90 degrees and would slide the rest, or kickturn the rest. After practice I learned to do the whole 180, so keep trying.

Keep practicing, try it out yourself and if you have some questions log on to the Forum and get informed.

After long time skating your board, your griptape will wear out little by little or gets really ugly because of your bails. You can actually get off the griptape really easily by just following the steps.
With an old worn out griptape you will lose lot of gripping to your shoes which makes your ollies and tricks really lower.

We do not recommend kids doing this by themselves since they will have to use a cutting edge.  Grown up supervision advised.

1.You will need the following things:

1. Deck
2. Cutter or knife
3. Screw Driver
4. Skate tool
5. Hair dryer

2. Take your trucks off your board.	3. Heat up the griptape with your hairdryer to losen off your griptape tip. Use a knife to accomplish that.
4. After you have a part to handle, start grabbing the griptape with your fingers.	5. Work your way gradually to the other end.
6. Once you can handle the griptape well, stop using the hairdryer and use your foot to get it all off. Reuse your hairdryer to get off any small left out pieces.	7. Now go check how to apply your new griptape on your deck.

It will take you sometime to get used to the new griptape and its strong gripping. Do not get devastated if you can’t land tricks you could land with your old griptape(you’ll get used to it)