Since its recent inception in the Olympics, skateboarding is having a moment in India. Have you stepped on the board yet?
The HinduMorning joggers and evening strollers at Marina beach are often treated to acts that showcase speed, balance and defy gravity. Abhishek, with fellow skater Darius Bharucha started 100 Ramps, a professional skatepark company in 2015 and has over the years built facilities in Chennai, Hyderabad, Calicut, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Pune, Gwalior, and Goa. All these cities have a skateboarding culture,” says Abhishek who started skateboarding 13 years ago, when the sport was still in its nascent stages in India. Other than dedicated skateparks, Jacob says skateboarders in Chennai and Mumbai have also been using the ramp built by cafe-bar SOCIAL in their compounds in Express Avenue Mall and Khar. While it challenges and pushes the skater physically and mentally, he says, it also teaches an important lesson: “To pick yourself every time you fall, dust yourself, get back on the board and never give up.”
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