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lundi 27 juin 2011

Go Skateboarding Day in Cambodia

The newly formed Skateistan Cambodia recently hosted Go Skateboarding Day in Phnom Penh.


GSD hit Phnom Penh for the first time on Friday 24 June 2011, starting at the PSE school in Stung Meanchey district, ripping and hitching rides through the streets with police escort, and then back to where it started -- a spot of concrete at the school, with ramps and energy.
http://kh.skateistan.org/skateistan_blog/gsd-pp

samedi 14 mai 2011

Phnom Penh Skate - "Introducing Skateboarding in Cambodia"


Phnom Penh Skate - "Introducing Skateboarding in Cambodia"
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Phnom Penh Skate is an association of people wanting to launch skateboarding in Cambodia. Directed by Ayrton Orio Produced by Telenko Production Music: MGMT - Kidshttp://vimeo.com/23619837

lundi 11 avril 2011

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Skateistan has recently partnered with the NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) to bring Cambodia its first skatepark! Skateistan e.V., in Germany, supported the Cambodian project with financial support of 2200 Euro, which has enabled ramp construction and skate lessons to begin. Construction was completed last month, with the skatepark opening to a large audience of children on March 25, in Phnom Penh. PSE has been working in Cambodia since 1996 in the areas of education and medical/social care for street children. The organization views the opening of the skatepark as a way to effectively integrate working, socially-disconnected and abused children into a disciplined, community environment. Lessons will be given three times a week, and the first participants will be the children who are already provided housing and education through the organization. PSE also plans to start an apprenticeship program with its youth, who will learn wood and metal working skills, eventually building and maintaining skateparks themselves. According to PSE, the newly built skatepark will be a space for much more than skateboarding: “The skatepark is an opening for other diverse and innovative activities in Cambodia, such as contests accompanied by concerts and other urban culture related activities. Ex: Music, choreography, photo exhibition, movies about extreme sports, etc…” Skateistan also provided networking support, putting PSE in touch with the Australian 360 Project, which donated 30 complete skateboards, as well as arranging technical support from expert rampbuilder Andreas Schutzenberger (IOU Ramps), who constructed Kabul’s skatepark in 2009. In the future Skateistan plans to fund logistical, material and travel costs for IOU Ramps to construct an indoor skatepark in Phnom Penh with PSE, as well as teach rampbuilding workshops with local youth. Skateistan also aims to provide additional skateboards and safety gear. Perhaps most importantly, Skateistan will also share its model, philosophy and goals with PSE to help in the implementation of their skateboarding/educational programming.


This coming Monday the 21st March, Three Sixty Project team member Scott Windred (aka Dubsy) is heading to Cambodia to hand deliver 30 Three Sixty Project decks. He will joined by good friend Kodan and together they will be stocked with the 360 decks, 10 sets of trucks and wheels and a heap of safety gear (thanks to Trinity Distribution).
We were connected with the Program in Phnom Pehm through Skateistan, and are stoked to be helping out 2500 kids from under-privileged circumstances learn to skate.
Dubsy will be keeping our Facebook page updated throughout his time in Cambodia, and be sure to check back for a wrap-up.
A big thanks to everyone who donated toward the trip or bought a deck in support of the Project. Stoooooked!!!!

Cambodia daily

Skateistan has recently partnered with the NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) to bring Cambodia its first skatepark! Skateistan e.V., in Germany, supported the Cambodian project with financial support of 2200 Euro, which has enabled ramp construction and skate lessons to begin. Construction was completed last month, with the skatepark opening to a large audience of children on March 25, in Phnom Penh.
PSE has been working in Cambodia since 1996 in the areas of education and medical/social care for street children. The organization views the opening of the skatepark as a way to effectively integrate working, socially-disconnected and abused children into a disciplined, community environment.
Lessons will be given three times a week, and the first participants will be the children who are already provided housing and education through the organization. PSE also plans to start an apprenticeship program with its youth, who will learn wood and metal working skills, eventually building and maintaining skateparks themselves.
According to PSE, the newly built skatepark will be a space for much more than skateboarding:
“The skatepark is an opening for other diverse and innovative activities in Cambodia, such as contests accompanied by concerts and other urban culture related activities. Ex: Music, choreography, photo exhibition, movies about extreme sports, etc…”
Skateistan also provided networking support, putting PSE in touch with the Australian 360 Project, which donated 30 complete skateboards, as well as arranging technical support from expert rampbuilder Andreas Schutzenberger (IOU Ramps), who constructed Kabul’s skatepark in 2009.
In the future Skateistan plans to fund logistical, material and travel costs for IOU Ramps to construct an indoor skatepark in Phnom Penh with PSE, as well as teach rampbuilding workshops with local youth. Skateistan also aims to provide additional skateboards and safety gear. Perhaps most importantly, Skateistan will also share its model, philosophy and goals with PSE to help in the implementation of their skateboarding/educational programming.






L'ONG Pour un Sourire d'Enfant a fait le pari risqué de monter un skatepark au sein de son centre principal de Stung Meanchey, à Phnom Penh. Un petit projet qui a l'ambition de devenir grand.

L'ONG Pour un Sourire d'Enfant a pour objectif principal de scolariser les enfants des rues de la capitale, mais pas seulement. Une fois l'école terminée, des activités extrascolaires sont proposées aux enfants, afin d'éviter qu'ils ne retournent dans la rue le soir venu. Ainsi, une nouvelle activité fait son entrée au centre: le skateboard!

Bien que très populaire à travers le monde, le skateboard est un sport encore inconnu au Cambodge, et PSE accueille dans ses locaux le premier skatepark du pays.

La construction de ce skatepark a une triple vocation. Elle permet tout d'abord à des enfants issus des milieux défavorisés de découvrir et de pratiquer un sport nouveau. Elle permet aussi, bien sûr, d'importer ce sport et cette culture urbaine dans le pays -et pourquoi pas créer un réel engouement et monter une équipe nationale?- Enfin, les futurs équipements du skatepark seront fabriqués par les apprentis de PSE, ces derniers, étant formés dans les métiers du bois et du métal, ils ont les connaissances et les techniques adéquates pour créer de toute pièce des rampes de skate et autres half pipes, ce qui pourrait ainsi faire d'eux les spécialistes du matériel de skateboard au Cambodge.

Un projet qui a vite pris forme

Trois mois se sont écoulés entre l'écriture du projet et l'ouverture de la structure, cette dernière a été montée bénévolement en une semaine par une équipe de skateurs australiens de l'association Three Sixty, une rapidité d'action qui a grandement impressionné les professionnels du métier. En effet, une fois le projet écrit et les demandes de subventions envoyées, les sponsors ont répondu très nombreux à l'appel. L'ONG allemande Skate-istan ayant un projet similaire à Kaboul, en Afghanistan, s'est elle-même portée sponsor en apportant des fonds et en offrant du matériel. Il est aussi prévu une visite des dirigeants dans les mois qui viennent pour monter un nouveau skatepark couvert gratuitement.

Benjamin Pecqueur, responsable du projet, et lui-même skateur depuis plusieurs années, est ravi que cela démarre si fort: "Il y a une réelle demande de la part des enfants, et sur les 6500 que compte le centre, on estime à 5 à 10% ceux qui participeront aux ateliers régulièrement", et d'ajouter: "Le but de ce projet est aussi d'intégrer les filles dans cette activité, c'est pourquoi, dès la semaine prochaine, les ateliers d'initiation vont démarrer, et les groupes seront formés en fonction des âges et des sexes, afin que chacun puisse se sentir à l'aise; la phase d'initiation terminée, des groupes de niveau seront alors formés et les cours pourront commencer".

Le projet est encore naissant, mais d'ici quelques mois, une fois les activités mises en route, d'autres sports urbains tels que le BMX (vélo), le roller et la trottinette feront leur entrée sur les halfpipes alors que la planche à roulettes sera déjà sous les feux de la rampe.

Dommage pour les amateurs de glisse, le skatepark est ouvert uniquement aux élèves de PSE. Mais pour ceux qui se sentiraient l'âme de professeurs, alors il se pourrait que le skatepark ouvre ses portes aux riders en échange de quelques heures de cours données bénévolement…

Anaé Pinel (www.lepetitjournal.com/cambodge) jeudi 7 avril 2011

mardi 22 février 2011

Project’s presentation: Objectives and vision



Project’s presentation: Objectives and vision
Roller and skate practice is minimally developed in Cambodia.
Nevertheless, roller and skateboard raise quite an interest amongst youth. 

In order to allow underprivileged children to assume their capacity and talent in good and safe conditions; having the desire to make urban sports activity accessible to all, the PSE team wishes to achieve an ambitious goal ; The creation of the first skate/roller school and of the 1st Cambodian Skate Park.

Indeed, a part of the innovative aspect of the project, the skate and the roller are activities, which need patience, tenacity, will-power, self-challenge, team-spirit and initiative. These values and elements of good behavior are essential for children, who will later, enter working life.
PSE’s beneficiaries are all former street children, who had the habit of working and living autonomously before being integrated in to our programs. This change into a disciplined and hierarchical environment often unsettles them.
The skate and the roller play a great evacuating role, being the mid-way between self-control and the free-style.

A few weeks ago, a first material donation enabled PSE’s children to discover roller skating. This truely successful experience resulted in the following observation: If we wish this activity to develop on professional tracks we have to form partnerships and have professional exchanges with persons, whose life-passion is in this sport; in Europe, the United States and anywhere else in the world.

We wish that this skate park will be a place for freedom and personal challenge for youth, as well as the corner-stone for the first Cambodian skaters’ generation.

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