HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 JA

WISHING DI BES FI 2024

Happy New Year 2024 from Jamaica Skate Culture Foundation !

Greetings to all our members, skateboard lovers, and the wider Jamaican and Caribbean community around the globe!

As we welcome the new year, the team at Foundation Jamaica Skate Culture would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year 2024! We are excited to continue our mission of promoting and growing the vibrant skate culture in Jamaica.

In 2023, we were thrilled to organize various events for skate and BMX enthusiasts, and we were also proud to have completed the construction of a brand new mini ramp at the Freedom Skatepark. This has provided our community with an amazing new facility to hone their skills and enjoy the sk8 culture they love.

We are also delighted to share that we have merged with Girls Skate Jamaica, making us an even stronger collective dedicated to empowering skaters of all backgrounds. Together, we have even more exciting projects and initiatives planned for 2024, so stay tuned!

A big shout-out and heartfelt thanks go to the French Embassy in St. Lucia and Kingston for their continued support, as well as to our main sponsor, Paris Skate Culture, for their invaluable contribution to our cause.

To all our supporters, partners, and the entire Jamaican and Caribbean skate community – Big up yourselves! One love, one heart.

Here’s to an amazing 2024 filled with endless skating adventures, camaraderie, and the spirit that rises ‘OUT OF MANY’ toward ‘UNITY !’

BUS TRIP FROM KINGSTON TO BOSTON BAY

FROM KINGSTON TO BOSTON JANUARY 6TH 2024 - BUS TRIP offered by JSC-GSJ

Reserve Your Seat for an Unforgettable Journey to Portland – FREE ! Immerse Yourself in Jamaica’s Skate Culture and Experience the Dynamic Boston BMX and Skatepark. Dm Us to Secure Your Seat. A Blend of Adventure and Culture Awaits.  DRESS THEME RETRO 80’s…Let’s ride and have fun ! Nuff respect to @lafranceasaintelucie  for the support  …thanks to the French Embassy in Jamaica and the ambassador Olivier Guyonvarch for his ongoing support…@france_in_jamaica @guyonvarcho #DiscoverSkateJamaica #BMXBostonExperience #PortlandAdventure
MEETING LOCATIONS: SOVEREIGN CENTRE, HOPE RD & FREEDOM SKATEPARK – JANUARY 6TH, 2024 | TIME: 6AM – 5PM _Prizes and surprises!

GIRLS SKATE SESSION SEASON 3 WITH JSC – ST LUCIA FRENCH EMBASSY

Girls skate Session Season 3 with JSC big up to  St Lucia French embassy 

Girls skate Session Season 3 starts December 21th to January 25th…

Get ready for Girls Skate Session: Season 3, a thrilling partnership between Girls Skate Jamaica and Jamaica Skate Culture. Join us for an upcoming event filled with incredible tricks, fearless skater girls, and the empowering spirit of skateboarding. Stay tuned for more updates, see you at Freedom Skatepark every thursday ! 

GIRLS SKATE JAMAICA & JAMAICA SKATE CULTURE UNDER ONE FOUNDATION

Girls skate Jamaica & Jamaica Skate Culture are merging in ONE FOUNDATION ! 

We are proud to announce our collaboration for the future of skateboarding in jamaica and the Caribbean… between @girlsskatejamaica and @jamaicaskateculture under one foundation’… more actions to be made, keep posted! Out of many One love One fambly

FREE SESSION AT BOSTON BAY SKATEPARK

FREE SESSION AT BOSTON BAY SKATEPARKFREE CLASS SATURDAY AT BOSTON SKATEPARK

We will be offering FREE skateboarding lessons every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m from mid-June to 2nd of September. We meet at 11 a.m. at italish restaurant 2 minutes walk from the park to grab your board and protectors, then class begins at 11:30 a.m.

With instructors: Jahvi, Deondre aka Zulu, and Tre

We are grateful for the grant we received from @lafranceasaintelucie and can’t wait to see what our students will accomplish.
To subscribe, go to https://jamaica-skate-culture.org.jm/subscription/ and download the SKATE CULTURE APP to register online (12 spaces are available every free session)…There is also the option of taking a private class.

#thankyou #skateboardinglessons #skatejamaica #frenchembassystlucie

Third anniversary of Bull bay Freedom skatepark

JSC Gift for the third anniversary of Freedom Skatepark

This May, JSC donated a new mini-ramp for the Freedom skatepark in Bull Bay 8 miles, to celebrate the 3 years anniversary in April of the skatepark built by the Concrete Jungle Foundation with the help of private partners including Paris Skate Culture our main donator and one of the main to that skatepark since day one. 

We decided to mark the occasion by adding a 95-centimeter-high by 6-meter-wide concrete mini-ramp to enable youngsters to learn the basics and more experienced skaters to learn new tricks. The cost was around $8,000, for a total value of $14,000 USD, with contributions from partners and volunteers including our director from Remy Walter who managed the project all the way from suggesting the idea to making it a reality with the help of a few motivated individuals…Many thanks to the Freedom skatepark staff, Blake, Ronley, Balla; to Rastaman Léon the lion, BMX Okeen Wallace, all the volunteers and Harry from UK employed as the technical construction manager. 

Many thanks to the supporters and sponsors who helped with the project: Bordeaux skate culture, VINCI jamaica Tim’, CARIB CEMENT Jamaica, Sandals Heidi, and for the discounts granted by Tankweld and Premix, Mister C block factory 10 miles…Boston skaters Zulu & Jahvi and the tourists who helped out: USA Dylan zdon, Australia Aurenin.

Our commitment to this island is a continuation of the work started in 2015 at Treasure beach and the creation of our Jamaican foundation in 2020, JAMAICA SKATE CULTURE in 2020 with our two Jamaican directors Kimberley Harris and Kayla Wheeler two involved Ladies, which is an organization with Charity status since November 2021.

Our aim is to create more skateparks and develop skateboarding in the Caribbean. The foundation has just received a $5,000 grant from the French Embassy in St Lucia to take kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods to skatepark sessions, girls’ sessions and organize two national competitions. 

Thanks to our French ambassador to Jamaica, Olivier Guyonvarcho for his support.
Long life to Freedom skatepark !

BMX JAM Session at Freedom Bike park

BMX JAM Session at Freedom Bike park

For the first time since April 2020 date of birth of Freedom skatepark, we organize a BMX JAM session on sunday March 19 th. 20000 $ jmd  for a Tricks for cash and other gifts. Starting at 2 pm un til 6/7 pm. The park opens at 1 pm. Please car park are behind Bull Bay football club, 100 meters from the park. The BMX scene in Jamaica has been under rated as it is a part of the riding action sports culture and very close to skateboarding spirit. We’re proud to present this event as the last time we rode together in a contest was in the Wickie Wackie gully in 2019 with SK876 crew. Welcome to all riders, let’s get together and make this show happens and proof that BMX is alive and kicking in JAMAICA !

500 Days before the Olympics 2024 in PARIS in JA

500 days before the Olympics 2024 in Paris in Bull Bay Skatepark

 Freedom Skatepark and Youth Centre, in Bull Bay –  March 14, 2023 – 9  to 10 am

*Communication from the French Embassy

 

His Excellency Mr. Olivier Guyonvarch, Ambassador of France to Jamaica, is pleased to invite our Media partners for coverage to the event “Paris 2024 – 500 days to go”. With 18 months to go until the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, over 100 French Embassies and permanent representations across five continents will join for a live 24h global relay. The relay will take place on 14 March 2023, exactly 500 days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Games. The concept is simple: during a period of 24 hours, French Embassies around the world will each organize a one-hour sporting event from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (local time). Once their event is over, each Embassy will hand over to the next one, in the next time zone that will hold the event and so on for 24 hours. The handovers will happen virtually through their respective social media networks. The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and partners will share the event through their own social networks, with a visibility of millions of followers.

The French Embassy in Jamaica will partner with French national Mr. Rémy Walter, founder of Paris Skate Culture and Jamaica Skate Culture, in association with the Freedom Skatepark Foundation, for this event, to be held at the Freedom Skatepark and Youth Centre, in Bull Bay, March 14th from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. H.E. Olivier Guyonvarch will host the event. Participants will include the local community (skaters, artistes and school children).

Skateboarding will indeed be an Olympic discipline of the 2024 Paris Games. Not only a sport, it also represents a culture on its own and is a strong tool for social inclusion, allowing people from different socioeconomic backgrounds and cultures to connect, which is in full accordance with the Olympic values. The French Embassy decided to organize this event with Jamaica Skate Culture and the Freedom Skatepark Foundation at Bull Bay, because this project also plays a strong role in supporting the community and giving back to the children of the area. 

FREEDOM SKATEPARK GRAND OPENING

We’ve been waiting for a long time to live that moment. Built in April 2020 during the beginning of the pandemic, Bullbay skatepark AKA FREEDOM Skatepark as been functioning with help of volunteers, sponsors and donors as best as we could with Freedom skatepark foundation members and staff. It is a great success in term of impact on the youth and development of skateboarding in Jamaica. Built by volunteers from 10 countries. The project coordinated by CJF Concrete Jungle Foundation, is the first JA skatepark to be active, alive and kicking ! With its educational programs, homework, music, gardening, this is a safe place for kids and young adults, a welcoming place for the all fambly...We hope more Freedom concrete park will rise from the Will of freedom fighters and skaters. We wish long life and many children to the @freedomskateparkja and his fambly) 

ONE LOVE, ONE HUMANITY UNDER ONE SUN )

Feel free to support the project… CLICK HERE to FS website… Big up yuself’ 

 CHECK THE PHOTOS ALBUM – Link to Gleaner Article OCT 13th by asha.wilks@gleanerjm.

Interview bout’ JSC  – extract article ” :

Rémy Walter, founder, and director of Jamaica Skate Culture Foundation told The Gleaner that his Intention and that of the other partners is to build more skateparks across Jamaica. He argued that this could not be the only locations’ kids to travel from other parishes to visit and engage in the sport. Walter stated that additional parks could result in the hosting of interparish competitions and give youth the opportunity to rack up accolades and win prizes. He also hopes to develop a mobile skatepark program, where skateparks are brought to schools across the Island for more children to be exposed to the sport.”Beyond skateboarding, we try to bring education. We’re trying to build values and respect; we try to teach them something about life, about sharing, Walter said.”lt’s action time, and the youth of this country need support. They need education because so much violence going on, not only ln Jamaica … lt’ s ugly, but what we need to do is to set an example and do our best to try to help those kids to develop into better persons; he added.  Walter said that he ls currently engaging partners in discussions to build a skatepark in Negril

During the opening ceremony, Alando Terrelonge, minister of state for culture, gender, entertainment, and sports, noted that sport empowers youth and has to ability to make considerably change lives. every”Sports may not be able to solve every single minute detail of crime and violence, but certainly, it is highly effective when used and combined with other that holistic interventions and programmes that can influence and engender hope; he said. 

-Photos : LEFT /Stunt by Elishama Beckford and Nicholas Thompson / MIDDLE Joshua Mattis / RIGHT /Alando Terrelonge (second right), minister of state ln the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. is assisted in maintaining his balance on a skateboard by Remy Walter (right) of Paris Skate Culture and Jamaica Skate Culture Foundation while Heidi Clarke (second left), executive director of Sandals Foundation, is assisted by Kayla Wheeler, female representative, Girls Skateboarding in Jamaica. 

The occasion was Wednesday’s OPENING of FREEDOM SKATEPARK ln Bull Bay, St Andrew. 

Article by asha.wilks@gleanerjm.com / Photos Ian Allen

THRASHER MAGAZINE – PRO RVCA TEAM IN JAMAICA 2022

ARTICLE THRASHER MAG Nov. 2022

RVCA ZINE JAMAICA Tour

Wanna help ? Link JSC foundation

Read Eli Reed Interview one of our Ambassador in Thrasher Magazine Nov. about Jamaica skateboarding and RVCA Jamaica Tour with PRO Team : Mark Suciu skater of the year, Curren Caples, Donta Hill, Julian Davidson, Evan Mock. Thanks to Austin and RVCA crew for this opportunity. We need more pros coming on the Island and more skateparks ) Come again ! ! !

 

GIRL SKATE JAMAICA

Watch Kayla Wheeler one of our board director and Kadiya McDonald on TVJ Week end Smile empowering girls through skateboarding and Kayla in an interview in “Empress Golding / Nation Wide radio. On August 13th, the GIRL SKATE DAY was a big success in Bull Bay’s at FREEDOM skatepark @freedomskateparkja

Sessions THURSDAYS :  FREE

UNDER-18  2:30 – 4:00 P.M. OVER +18  4:30 – 6:00 P.M

Follow them on @girlskatejamaica 


Read more  : Gleaner august 15 th 

Skateboarder gives girl injection of self-belief

Gleaner article-Keep the children on boards

Here is an article by Daniele Wheeler form the Gleaner about Freedom skatepark, and the development of skateboarding in JA. About the coming of the pros for a trip with demos and videos, how it will help the cause of this brand new olympic sports that brings new opportunities for new talents. How the skatepark as become a social asset for Bull bay and Kingston. Also the positive impact it has on tourism and how it could attracts new visitors on the island…All positive vibrations !  see online the article  by daniel.wheeler@gleanerjm.com

Demo Freedom Bull Bay skatepark May 18 th

You’ re all welcome this Wednesday May 18 th from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Freedom skatepark in Bull bay 8 miles with RVCA pros team : Mark Suciu, Donta Hill, Curren Caples, Julian Davidson and their JA ambassador Eli Reed ! Thanks to @rvcaskate #loveskateboarding @freedomskateparkja

Photo : Half Way Tree  Transport Centre – Kingston JA
From the right to the left : Remy Walter JSC, Joshua & Daniel Mattis JSC team, Frog boss, *Curren Caples, Eli Reed, *Mark Suciu, *Donta Hill, *Julian Davidson ( *=Team RVCA)

CJF Bull Bay trip to Boston

Jamaica Skateboarding EduSkate’s Graduating Excursion

The Concrete Jungle Foundation (CJF) is a UK registered charity organization which works to build skateparks in underprivileged communities around the world. These public parks are then locally staffed and facilitated with youth programs and centers. The Freedom Skatepark is CJF’s third project and is located in 8 mile, Bull Bay, Jamaica – just south of Kingston. This video gives you a glimpse of our graduating class and their first skateboarding excursion to Boston Bay. Enjoy !
@concretejunglefoundation
@fiegodlores

FREEDOM SKATEPARK by MACTOFILMS

A doc by MACTOFILMS

Freedom Skatepark is the second skatepark in Jamaica. Made possible by the Concrete Jungle Foundation, their many partners and passionate young local surfers and skaters, the SK876 crew. The park has given the youth of Jamaica an outlet to express themselves. In this documentary we explore the process of how and why the park was built, along with the work they have done over a year after it’s completion. Thank you to Concrete Jungle Foundation and everyone involved in making the Freedom Skatepark a reality…