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Weekly Cover Update

Bling — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:27:14 +0000

Hey hey hey!!!!

Hope every skateboarder is having a great time skating and BANGIN haha

anyway, you probably wondering why I havent been posting any weekly covers, well I forgot to tell you that after 5 weekly covers theres going to be a 2 week break, and I know its way past 2 weeks but the thing is that I travelled to France and UK so I had no time and I still dont since Im still in London!

Its kind of impossible for me to cover skaters in Egypt while in London, it will suck and we dont want that right?

So here is a quick update!

Ziad Ashraf won the Free Tech Deck Competiton(Yay)

and Im working on a new cool poster for my covers, so heres the thing! if you have the time or anything draw, edit or photoshop a poster or a logo and send it to me on this email ” bling[at]skateimpact[dot]com

DONT BE AN IDIOT AND PUT THE EMAIL AS IT IS, SOME PEOPLE DID THAT TRUST ME
REPLACE [at] with @ AND REPLACE [dot] with .

Anyway thats it, sorry for not posting, When im back in Egypt I’ll be posting haha,

here is my next post date, 07/08/2010 which is my birthday!

Stay tuned damn it!

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Yassin Koptan.

Cliche Espresso Tour

cherif — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:47:22 +0000

Sammy with most of the team drove from Lyon to Milan, Italy earlier this year to skate and enjoy a great Resumé book exhibition at the Bastard shop.

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Daniel Espinoza on Cliche

cherif — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:39:42 +0000

Brophy Web Ad-Cliché

cherif — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:43:56 +0000

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3 NEW SPOTS !!!! ( Cairo )

oozy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:05:12 +0000

Airport

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.

Firing Line: Morgan Smith

cherif — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:59:26 +0000

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Ask The Phelper:Mullen Part 2

cherif — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:54:13 +0000

With 70 years of skating between the two of them, The Mutt and The Phelper talk about who’s hot and what’s not

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GSD 2010 Cairo Recap

amin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:34:35 +0000

Hi everyone,

Fayek Helmi says, “who cares about an organized event on 1 certain day a year? will it make a difference if same event was held on a completely different day? no. just go out and skate. even if you skate your own garage. the whole point of skate day is to not let anything hold you back from skating. just go skate. period.”

Go Skateboarding Day (GSD) is like a feast for skaters all over the world. On the 21st of June each year, every skater skates this day and rolls on the streets. Skaters may also celebrate this day by organizing competitions and filming or taking photos all day long. So, if you’re a skater what are you waiting for? Go grab your board and skate.

Unluckily, “Oasis Park” the place chosen for the GSD had some problems due to the World Cup. Then, the only solution was to go to Cairo (we alexandria skaters) to meet other skaters and enjoy the day.

We took a Microbus to cairo, had a small stop in “Omar Oasis”.

This is how the day began. First, we arrived at Nozha Spot. We opened the bus’ door, it was like you have opened the oven. It was 48 C degrees out there.
“The Camera is burning me in my hands”, Cherif Herrawi said.

We took our skateboards and started our day. We warmed up, skated the Double-Set, and jaws started dropping off. Karim Alexander, Yassin Koptan (bling), Brandon Maddox and Oozy (Mahmoud Tarek). those were the impressive skaters of the day. As Alex had nailed a 360 flip, Hardflip and he almost landed the double flip off the double-set.. Those were totally impressive.. Yassin had the eye on by his highly tweaked kickflip and F/S flip, although he had some injuries but he got what he wanted at the end. The OldSchool skater Brandon did some sick stuff too, such as pressure indies and other Oldschool tricks.

Now if you ask me about the skater of the day, I would vote for Oozy. That dude is improving very quickly and does really professional stuff. The Best trick of the day was the Nollie Heelflip landed by Oozy perfectly clean on the Nozha Double-set.. That was totally awesome, no one believed it, but you can’t contradict the reality.

At about four o’clock, we went by bus to the Airport spot to meet the cairo skaters. There were many of them, skaters quit skating and others take place.. But there are the main original symbols of the Cairo skate scene such as : Yehia Ossama, Hilali, Fayek Helmi, Alexandre Shehata and others. We first played on a wedge ramp that belongs to some Inline skaters (Ihab Omar, thanks alot for bringing it). It was cool at the beginning, everyone skated on it, Tommasso Tournet did some highly incredible tricks on it such as Tre-Flip and backside Heel. Also, Yassin did a very high kickflip on that wedge which I personally liked a lot. Unfortunately, this wedge ramp has like a paint that melted due to the high temperature, So wheels started sticking into it and began make some trouble. Another skate part was Cherif’s Yellow rail, it was good and many skated it, but the most memorable trick was Oozy’s kickflip F/S boardslide.

After a while, competitions started by the Highest Ollie. We were like 10 skaters who signed their names in that competition. Skaters started getting knocked out gradually after putting 3 decks. Only five skaters who have ollied the 5 decks which were : Yassin Koptan, Amin Rida and Mike Issa, Oozy and K.Alexander. For the first three skaters, that was there maximum ollie height, but Alex and Oozy kept the challenge on. The final score was that Oozy got the 7 decks but Alex regrettably got only 6. Oozy won.

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The second competition was a normal GAME OF SKATE with the same original rules. It was a fairly judged game. But for the second time again, Oozy won the Advanced Game Of Skate. Oozy was given prizes worth EGP1000 of Cliche deck, DVD, Shoe Goo, Wax, some stickers and patches which he really deserved.

Well, that was the end of everything, we then headed back to Alexandria to our lovely homes. Everything went fine and really good. Thanks for Skateimpact.com and Herrawi Bros’ great work to make us spend a really joyful day full of our favorite game SKATEBOARDING. We would like to thank also Mahmoud Bakr, Bassel Ezzat and Aly Rashwan and their cameras for taking snapshots for the skating day along with Cherif and Omar, and everyone who had came and helped.

We hope you have enjoyed your day. And we promise you of another happy surprises soon.

Amin Rida

Weekly Cover #5

Bling — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:45:50 +0000

Hey Hey,

Whats up Egypt? hope everyone is having a great time skating these days because I know I am!

Ok last friday which is yesterday, we went to Carrefour(Alexandria) at 7 AM, its the best thing to do! We go in, skate there and the best thing is that no one is allowed in and we just run from security and as we all know, Egyptian security guards are lazy! We kept filming and it was so much fun! I’ll post a video in my next Weekly Cover about that day. After that we went to skate at koleyet el handasa(Engineering College) and while he was filming,

An old guy came talking about how “Batinajj” referring to skateboarding is dangerous and why we should’nt skate, he kept asking us what are we going to benefit from skateboarding and we just kept laughing. I swear people in Egypt need to start googling skateboarding.

After he left, Mohamed Ibrahim kept trying his Fakie Fs or Bs Heelflip on the 4 sets, im sorry about that I just dont understand the fakie and nollie bs and fs thing haha anyway he will land it soon I hope & while Amin was trying to film his

Fs Heeflip on the 4 sets, he landed and slipped and well

take a look at the picture on the right! but dont worry, Youssed el Sayed AKA JOE saved his board

but later on Amin broke his board which was kind of funny.

Joe Saving Amins Board!

Amins Broken Board

But overall it was a fun week and I will be posting more pictures!

The second thing that I would like to share are these pictures:

Like them, well Alex, Ahmed & I edited them and thought they were funny and good! enjoy =)

Ok here is the last thing I’ll announce and that is the contest I promised, OK! See my picture at the top? yeah thats my shitty edited pic with a skater in it doing a certain trick, The first person telling me who is that skater is going to win a free Tech Deck of his selection but you have to send send me the following at me email adress bling[at]skateimpact[dot]com:

The Skaters Name
Name of the trick
Link that has the picture

Here is what Skateimpact has instore

http://skateimpact.com/finger-boards.html?SID=9afdb9a72951889ce0ae992f64c9a873

Well what are you waiting for? Start searching!

Well thats all for this weekly cover!

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Yassin Koptan

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Weekly Cover #4

Bling — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:46:29 +0000

Well well! haha welcome to my fourth weekly cover!

Its been a great week for most skaters, alot has been going on and last monday was Go Skateboarding Day & thats the first thing I want to talk about.

Cairo, Egypts capital was 52 degrees on Monday and skaters were boiling, hundreds of empty Nestle, Aquafina & Dasani on the floor still skaters were dying for more & thats what I loved about GSD. The skate spirit was excellent, everyone was skating despite the weather. We arrived at 12 and the first spot we went was Nozha, I dont know about the others but I was really happy to go there, The 7 double sets were what made me happy that day. Half of the skaters were skating them and most landed sick tricks like Karim Alexanders expolsive 360 flip and Hardflip, Mahmoud Tareks (AKA OOZY) Nollie Heelflip and my Kickflip & Frontside kickflip. and what else?? oh Brandon Maddox’s boneless adn Ind grab thing, everyone was stocked on how he can just lift the board without an ollie over these sets. After skating there, we went to the Airport! First I would like to congratulate Oozy for winning the Highest Ollie contest & Game of SKATE, HE DID A GREAT JOB! Once we arrived we skate on Cherif Herrawi’s yellow rail and The Launch ramp, they were something different to skate on, alot of people were there and the day ended with smiles on skaters faces! Im sorry I posted no images/videos but there will be a full article covering GSD with images and maybe videos.

This week was also a good week, we went to Koleyet el handasa(Engineering College) and most of us filmed alot of new tricks, Mohamed Ibrahim landed a sick backside kickflip on the four, Khaled Ayman filmed alot of sick combos on like his noseslide to 50-50 to cab out! just wait for he upcoming movie of “The Tribes”

Ziad Ashraf, you know the punk rock skater with long hair! nailed a sick airwalk caveman on the hubba 7 set
Impressive right?

Airwalk Caveman

Anyway, He also did some other sick stuff which you will see in the movie haha,

Boneless Bigspin

Brandon Maddox filmed 2 lines for the movie too, He ended the line with an killer Bonless bigspin, I dont know how he does it but he must have the best old school tricks in Egypt, He is truly impressive! The other line he ended it with an Indy grab thing! I must know that tricks name haha, anyway you will see alot of sick stuff from Alex soon!

Ollie over hubba

For me, I’ll share two things, we went to the hubba I told you about, and I ollied over it. At first, It was a pain in the ass, No speed and no space! I hesitated alot but at the end I said screw it and what happens happens! we will go there again and film! ok second thing was the unexpected trick I landed on the four in Koleyet el handasa,

Switch Inward Heelflip

Switch Inward Heelflip was the trick and yes it was filmed, I never even landed a trick on a one set but it seems kind of easy to land on other sets, I’ll be trying the trick more on other obstacles haha.

Ahmed Rashwan

Ok, remember my first weekly cover, when I talked about Ahmed Rashwan’s injury,
He bailed while trying the mini mega ramp and broke his left leg, he had a surgery and

9 Nails

has 9 nails in his leg right now, alot of skaters are breaking their legs nowadays hahaha

Anyway, we went to house today and by we I mean Amin, Aly Rashwan(AKA JEBO), Ahmed Mamdouh(MUSHU) & Mohamed Marhoum to check on him and he is doing good despite his injury, the only thing he is worrying about is wether he is going to skate again or not. It’s not his injury that could put a stop to his skating but it’s his worrying parents, he broke his leg 2 times already from skating and they dont want it to be a third time.

We all wish him a fast recovery and hopefull safe skating in the future.

Well, thats it for this Weekly Cover, I hope you liked it and if you have any suggestions please tell me,

Stay tuned for next weeks Weekly Cover because there is some kind of trivia I’ll tell you about and the winner will get a free Tech Deck.

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OU THINK ABOUT THE ARTICLE

See ya,

Yassin Koptan

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