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Jackson Pilz

Jackson Pilz

Australia

Age: 30

Born: Sunshine Coast

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Lives in: Australia

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Disciplines: Street

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Skate Africa: From Kenya To Ghana | Action Cut One of our favourite projects of recent times was a two- country tour to meet the nascent skate scenes in Kenya and Ghana with Luke Jackson of South Africa’s excellent Session magazine. Jaakko Ojanen, Jackson Pilz, Chennai Gwandure and Yann Horowitz brought the stoke energy to Accra and Nairobi on a skate trip that was inspiring and humbling in equal measure. With Patrik Wallner handling moving images and Sam McGuire shooting the photos the result was always going to be special; and so, alongside the mini-docs produced around scene-builders George Zuko and Sandy Alibo, we have put together this heater of strictly skate action from an unforgettable road mission. Enjoy every hammer from the road crew as well as local dons like Sam and Balo they met along the way. Whatever else you watch in skateboarding today, it won’t look like this.

9/25/2021   |  

The World Loves Skateboarding | Best Of Red Bull Skateboarding 2020 2020 was a most unusual year, but it will be remembered as one of skateboarding's most globally successful years. The reasons for that are many and varied, sometimes overlapping, but a perfect convergence of circumstances saw skate shops around the world unable to meet demand, small brands suddenly able to clear out entire inventories, and uptake – oftentimes re-uptake – of skating worldwide at a level not seen since the headiest days of decades past. It was at breakfast the morning after Red Bull Skateboarding’s 2020 planning meeting last January that the newspaper headline spoke of a city being locked down far away. It's doubtful that anyone back then could have foreseen the last 12 months playing out the way they have, but with so many projects already under way globally the race was on to bring them all in – safely, and in whole. From Patrik Wallner’s pioneering Uzbekistan skate project to contests like Simple Session, Red Bull Solus & Red Bull Bowl Rippers to RAW EDITS with Jamie Foy, CJ Collins & more to introducing the world to Madars Skate Tales to skating Larvikite with Torey Pudwill & crew to exploring the spirit of skateboarding in Africa, 2020 will go down in as an epic year in our history books!

1/18/2021   |  

How Skateboarding Is Transforming The Lives Of Kenyan Street Youth | SKATE AFRICA Part Two So, ladies and gentlemen, if you have not already had the pleasure then allow us to introduce you to George Zuko – a candidate for raddest human in the world today. As with Sandy Alibo in Ghana, George has been a talismanic figure in the development of skateboard culture here in Kenya. How about this: George is a skater who helps run skate camps at an educational orphanage where the country’s first skatepark resides. Think about that for a moment. Children sleeping on the streets are by no means uncommon in Nairobi, and George introduced us to two young rippers who once slept right by the local skate spot – and started skating as a result. With George’s introduction of skating into their lives, The Keedz (‘the pair’) are off the streets, enrolled in school, and ripping. Samuel Mwangi and Ezra Nyongesa – everyone calls him Balo, though – proved constant companions for Jaakko Ojanen, Chenai Gwandure, Yann Horowitz and Jackson Pilz as our joy bus spent a week rolling around with the skate scene of Nairobi. Sam even shot Balo’s front board photo from this feature on his first try with a camera. Fast learner! The Shangilia association which runs the educational orphanage space where the radiant skatepark resides work with hundreds of such children every day. Watch Patrik Wallner’s superb documentary on Jaakko and friends’ skate mission with the local rippers of Nairobi above.

12/21/2020   |  
 
 

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