Another day off, another skate session with the iSolar Crew. It was a great session, and the heat did not stop us this time. The weather was quite nice and not so draining. TJ did not pull out the ledge as he is still hurt from last time. We skated the hamdan spot and skated my flatbar.

Today I cracked my skateboard while attempting to frontside lip slide. I was doing it for a long time, and I was telling myself that I did it before why not do it again. I should have stopped and prevented it from cracking. So, for that reason I focused on grind tricks, finally I got the crooked grind on the flat bar again and I did my old grind tricks like fakie 5050. It was unfortunate to crack the board, but I think it was somewhat of a blessing, without it happening I would have not had the guts to do my grind tricks again.

The guys popping up to skate with us begin to rise. They were TJ’s old friends going back to skate and killing it. I really enjoyed a good session with everyone skating their best. It gives me extra motivation to complete tricks.

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What a day! Summer is on and skateboarding is getting a little harder for me. Hahah. The temperature is slowly rising every week and my body is adapting to the heat. We skated the Hamdan spot and TJ filmed as usual. I got some good lines and not so good lines. Haha. I should have redo that backside flip, but I was so tired. I’ll get it right next time. I can’t be choosy and use up all my energy on one trick. My time is limited, and I could not really keep up with the heat anymore. Hahaha.

Friends had a couple of clips but that’s it. It’s mostly me skating on this video. Tj was injured, he got his arms messed up while transferring the ledge to the place where we kept it. I think he’ll skate but with caution. I had a good session today and I hope I can keep up as the heat rises.
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Another week, another video! Consistently skating at the Hamdan DIY spot with the iSolar crew. I had such a great time this session. I even have tricks that were not captured by the camera because everyone was skating and having a good time. The ledge that they built is steady as a rock and I think it will continue to be that way before a major repair. My little rail is also skating good and really a good addition to lines. Simple tricks can be fun on that rail. Everyone had a good time, and it was again a great session.

Summer is slowly creeping in, and it is getting hotter and hotter. Because of this, I will be skating on my morning schedule again. I plan to learn new tricks while I do this. It seems to me that it is very difficult to learn new tricks these days, I need to put in effort to learn new things. So, the next few videos will be the usual steady shots and solo shots of myself. ha-ha.

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Another Great Session was done and it was one of the best ones lately.
As I have said last time, I basically broke their ledge in half. hahah, it was unfortunate but it happens.
Jules and TJ built a new ledge and it was by far superb than the last one.
The strength and hold of this ledge is awesome and it can take a lot of hits.
It was done amazingly and thanks to Jules and TJ we finally have a good ledge to skate on.

A lot of guys came through and it was a great afternoon skate session.
The usual suspects killed it, TJ, Diether, Jules, Czar. Ras came to skate after a long time of not seeing him.
Everybody was hyped to sakte the ledge! For me, it gave back memories of Philippine spots where we basically made the same set up of flatbars and ledges.

I hope you enjoy watching this video, this was a awesome session and i hope you like our tricks!

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Another skate day has been done successfully. This day we skated the Hamdan spot and pulled out the ledge that the iSolar crew built.
The ledge skated well although it needed some improvements. TJ, Renz, Diether and Jules was present and skated well this day.
The weather was nice overall and we had such a blast!

I did a couple of the usual lines and suprised myslef as I can still ollie some cones lying down. hahah.
Getting older does not help in going up in ollies anymore, but I think we did pretty good. hahah.
Diether is in his young age and still peaking so all tricks are no problem for him. The power and the board control is unmatched.

Every session is fun in this spot and the tricks are going and going. I hope this continues even until the blazing summer.
We did not pull out the rail as we focus more on breaking in the new ledge.
Up to the last minute the ledge kept up, but unfortunately, it gave out when I tried the nollie tail and landed wrong.
We will just build another one and post it here. The good thing is we got most of the parts now and the most important angle bar.

Hope you enjoy the clips!!

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We skated the Yas south skatepark once again after a year and a half.
The spot is good but it is a bit far from the city. It is a 30 minute ride from where we live. so instead of skating here, we opt to skate in nearby spots.
The ledges here vary from high to low, so I had the warm up in the low ledge before I went with the rather tall ones.

It was a great session. familiarizing again with the spot takes time especially for an old dude like me. hahaha.
I could not just go and destroy anymore. I just skate and take my time with tricks.
Czar skating was great, He managed to pull some old tricks he have not done in a while and made it happen.

I hope you enjoy watching!

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Another clip edits for this day! This time I skated with the friends at the Corniche spot. Previously, these spots had marble ledges but now it was removed and un-skateable. We went to this spot to have a change or a break from skating the old park. The spot is nearby the sea, and it is for walking and unwinding.

I could not skate for two weeks as the pain in my right foot due to the old problem I had, which was calcification. This the first two sessions I skated after the pain was manageable. I was not at a hundred percent as every time I land, there is pain. I did a few tricks I am used to but I did not really tried that hard.

The guys at the session who was TJ, Czar, Jules and Diether was skating great. TJ finally landed a clean Frontside boardslide, Czar was cruising and Diether was killing it.

I hope you enjoy watching.

It has been a long while since the last time I posted. Things have been busy for me, and I did not get a chance to write here in Hive.
Anyway, the winter here in UAE is over. The great weather comes to an end, and I made a little compilation of my skating during this time.
I went to skate with friends, and I only skated alone once. I did some usual tricks and learned a few others.

We skated the Hamdan spot often and I always bring my rail. The ledges are too high in Hamdan so I always bring this rail so that I can do some tricks, and because sometimes skating tall ledges drains a lot of my energy.
The usual OG skatepark spot recently opened as it was shut down for almost 6 months due to kids vandalizing the ramps, one more reason we skated Hamdan spot more. But as soon as we heard the OG opened, we went there and skated it.

I have been heavily posting on Instagram the past months, I just did not have the time to edit and post here on hive. Quick reels and shorts are all I did. Just being tired from work and being busy every weekend.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy watching these.

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It has been 4 months since I last posted. I just have not been creative these past months and all things that have been going on, I could not find myself writing and posting again.
Instagram kept me connected to @skatehive and I just thought of compiling these little clips and uploading it here. These clips are from January 2023 to June 26, 2023. I skated with billy after a long time and that one clip of him doing a trey was a testament of how much he progressed after two years. That was insane and it was on lock.

Glad to be posting again and hopefully shall be posting weekly. It has been a new schedule and for now I am just running with it. By next week it, will be busy again and I guess I would be posting every sunday. I'll to make that as a schedule and catch up with what's going on in Skatehive.

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P.S. Summer Blaze, TJ is not well with an ankle injury and Czar have a new job, and that pain @5:33 is one I have not felt for a while. hahahha

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Another day-off, another session! I am glad i could still skate. I tried ot skate last week but I had some other things to work on.
The session was great and I tried to skate ramps! Once again I could not skate ramps, but I just tried some basic stuff like ollie variations and a nollie.
Skating ramps is not really my cup of tea. I just figure it out when I skate. I could not even do a axle stall. hahaha.
But skating ramps really feels good especially when landing tricks and rolling.

Anyway, I hope you like my video and see you next time!

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P.S. Skatemore! these ramps got me pumped!

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Another Day-off another session! This time I tried two tricks I have not done in almost 5 years. hahaha. I had it difficult and needed to remember how I did it before.
It was a nice day and I had a great session, I started with some flatground and basic tricks to warm my legs up. The usuals as I call it, kick flip and heelflip and some boardslides and 50's.
My body felt great and I hope this continues next week session. Hope you like my video!

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P.S. These tricks I knew I could do, but by not doing it every session; my body almost forgot it already!

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Here's a little solo morning session. I skated alone this day as the schedule of the guys is not lining up. everyone is busy again. hahah. i did sopme ledges and practiced flatbar tricks. I enjoyed this day and made the most out of the time I had. tricks was flowing through even though I had to do it a couple of times. I also skated flat but for warming up but i did not film it, it's the usual tricks. hahah. The intro is the shoe goo application. hahha, i had to make my shoes last atleast 6 months! I timelapsed it and it blended well.

anyway, I hope you enjoy this video!

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P.S. I kept trying new tricks but not making it yet. hahah

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