RAD

14/12/2022

We are super excited for the opening of the first skatepark in Egypt, after years of struggles for a place for skaters to safely skate and get better, now there’s a place for everyone to go and practice and skate safely, this will have big effect on all the skaters! Park is built by , a professional skateparks builders from Slovenia. We are super thankful for for making this possible and super happy that a new chapter is starting in Egypt! More to follow soon! Support the park! Respect the park rules!

20/10/2022

Mohamed Kamel .skate.og started skating in 1976 in France, his grandmother got him his first board, it was a plastic board from a toy store shop. He asked for a skateboard cause he saw someone skating and he thought its a cool thing, he started then to skate a small downhill next to his grandmother’s house. He used to live in the Emirates back then and was just visiting France.
Skateboards starts to change from plastic to wood. Mo skated through plastic/fiberglass/oak wood all the way to what we know know as the standard maple 7ply boards.

Mo came back to Egypt around 1985. Back then they had to find someone coming from abroad and order a board, they didn’t get to select a brand or a model or a size or anything, just a board. Or send letters with money to companies for boards and they send it to them boards. They had to wait for months to get boards. Whether from ValSurf or other shops.

In beginning of the 90’s there were a big group of skaters skating and according to Mo there were companies like Alamia that used to organized big events for skateboarding.
Mo think opening of a skatepark is a key to keep everyone safe and gives a good environment for the kid to progress, in heart Mo believe that skateboarding is street based but in the conditions of Egypt he believes that there has to be a park. As he also believes that we should try to support the current skateparks and try to improve it. Even DIY few things in some spots or in the park.

Mo thinks the new generation is really good, like , and OG’s . He thinks the sport will pick up more if skaters take the sport more seriously and start to involve in it more.

19/08/2022

Yehia Ossama has been skating for 23 years now!

What Yehia likes the most about skateboarding is the room for self expression it has. The redefinition of failure as a natural part of the process instead of being a limiting factor. He believes that the resilience one Develops from trying tricks for a long time before one gets to land it goes a long way, and can seep through other aspect’s of one’s life.

Yehia thinks that skateboarding has drastically changed, at first it was only him and a small number of skaters ( around 2003, 2004), and in the following decade , the numbers have increased 20 folds, if not more, and a scene in other cities other than cairo started to emerge ( mainly Alexandria ). Yehia and other skaters from the older generation and some of the younger ones have been successful in having more events to meet the needs of the skateboarding scene in egypt to cater for the increase in number of skaters.

One of the ways Yehia ( Aboelfotoh ) believes the scene can be improved is by moving in that same direction along with establishing more skateparks, to create safe spaces for skaters to skate without being harassed and kicked out .

Being an athlete for most of his life, skateboarding has been the only sport that had the room for self expression. Skateboarding is however anyone wants to have it, no one tells you what tricks to do or how to do it, and the conscious decisions one takes on how to skate is very synonymous with having a voice or a style in the art world
Everyone wants to skate and look good doing it, and this process is exactly the same with painting. There are really great skaters out there, but few of those who can do really simple tricks and it’s a joy to watch them, Marc Johnson, Austyn Gillette, Donny barley come to mind.

Some of the all time favorites for Yehia are Marc Johnson, Josh Kalis, Dylan Reider, Tom Penny ( always has been a huge influence on me )
Some of the local kids, we have a lot of talent going on today , some of my favorites are , , , and .

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01/06/2022

After 10 years Radical is Relaunched again as RAD!! your beloved audiovisual platform that explore and support the skate scene in Egypt!
Runned and operated by Skaters for the Skaters!

footage filmed by the Homies: Hani Talat
Bedo Emad

RADICAL is now RAD!After 10 years Radical is Relaunched again as RAD!! your beloved audiovisual platform that explore and support the skate scene in Egypt!Ru...

26/09/2012

We Hooked SKC Skateshop with Philly Boards, Check their page and order one of those awesome Philly Canadian made boards and support them once they are available there.
https://www.facebook.com/SKCSkateshop

SKC is an online skateshop based in Cairo, Egypt. Our vision is to provide a wide variety of top skate brands to satisfy your skate needs.

10/09/2012

A Sad day for skateboarding communities everywhere, May these kids Rest In Peace.
http://www.skateistan.org/blog/tragic-loss

Left to right: Khorshid, Eeza, Nawab. On the morning of Saturday September 8th a su***de attack in Kabul claimed the lives of a number of young Afghans. The bomb was detonated outside of the Interna

26/04/2012

Here's Radical's new montage "The Streets We Skate" Guest skaters Dustin Mallory, Josh Green and Laurent Wildhaber , Keep Rolling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YGil58s9OQ&list=UUR6ZRe8VbKKDCPu6X_LojFw&index=1&feature=plcp

A Montage with the Radical team and guest skaters Josh Green, Laurent Wildhaber and Dustin Mallory.

21/04/2012

A New video coming soon.

03/01/2012

Evan Collisson now on Philadelphia Skateboards !!! watch him ripping in his welcome video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbCaemKlQU

www.facebook.com/PhiladelphiaSkateboards www.twitter.com/phillyboards www.phillyskateboards.com welcoming a new rider to the team. evan collisson welcome to ...

21/12/2011

Due to the situation in Cairo these days...we are sorry to inform everyone that the contest got delayed till February.

19/12/2011

Hey Guys..due to the situation in the country and specifically in Cairo..we gonna confirm on the GOS Contest this Wednesday.

11/12/2011

Hi Guys...Hani talat, Yehia ossama and Shanwar Badr gonna be in Alexandria on tuesday and wednesday this week...if you need a Philly Board tell us so we can get it with us...Cheers.