Revolución – Evolution

La evolución nunca termina, perseverancia, adaptación, coraje, instintos, supervivencia y autoestima son las cualidades que nos permitirán seguir adelante.
Dedicado al skateboarding en Cuba y a todos los que ayudan a la escena skater cubana en el mundo entero.
Revolución – Evolution es una coproducción de Standby Collective y YMG Films filmado desde principios del 2011 y estrenado en Cuba en Mayo. En casi 40 min abarca lo mejor de todos los skaters de La Habana y otros extranjeros que han patinado junto a la escena skater de la isla.

The evolution never ends, perseverance, adaptation, courage, instincts, survival and self-esteem are the qualities that enable us to move forward. Dedicated to skateboarding in Cuba and all those who help the Cuban skater scene in the world. Revolution – Evolution is a collaboration of Standby Collective and YMG Films filmed from early 2011 and premiered in Cuba in May. In nearly 40 minutes covering the best of all skaters in Havana and other foreigners who have skated with the skate scene of the island.

Skaters:
Yohani Pérez (Mamerto) / Che A. Pando / Humberto Rodríguez (Bankai) / Raciel Pereda (Raper) / Fernando Verdecia / Yoan Galiana / Reinaldo Vicet (Karem) / Elvis Morales (Pachuko) / Frank Gonzáles / Roberto Gómez (Gamby) / Hector Águila / Claudio García / Carlos San Juan / Ahmed González (Mechu) / Marcel / Manuel Reyes / Lian Carmuza (Chino) / Manuel Cabada (Manolo) / Gabriel Lara (Gabo) / Ariel Gómez / Andy Fonseca (Vikingo) / Orlando Rosales (Roly) / Carlos (Blacky) / (Vampiro) / Wilfredo Fernández / Carlos M. González (Mota) / Antonio Martínez (Tony) / Pedro / Clark Hassler / Michael Mackrodt / Todd Jordan / Ian Heart (Envision) / Tom Wilk (Canadian Tom)

Out Of Bounds

Winner to the best Independent Skate Video in the Short Short Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM)

TR3S

Three Skaters from diferent countries, Cuba, Dominican Republic & Mexico riding in Habana Streets

Demo from upcoming video by Standby Collective

Cosmic Dust

Surf Session, La Habana

Feat:
Humbert Rodriguez (Surfer & Skater)

Cosmic Dust from Standby Collective on Vimeo.

STANDBY

Skateboarding video demo in La Habana

Skaters:

• Humbert Rodriguez (Cuba)
• Fernando (Cuba)
• Mamekto (Cuba)
• Enrique Manuel (Cuba)
• Elvis Morales (Cuba)
• Falihery Ramamonji Janez (Madagascar)
• Che Alejandro (Cuba)
• Karem (Cuba)
• Manuel Cabada (Cuba)
• El Vikingo (Cuba)
• El Gambao (Cuba)
• Rudy Antonio Matias (Republica Dominicana)

STANDBY from Standby Collective on Vimeo.

A Royal 70 Project – Recycle Reuse Revolution

With two bicycles, a couple of surfboards and skateboards, a one-year-old angel that goes by the name Kahali Asha Cuba and a handful of Cuban friends, we are travelling the island’s beautiful and amazing coastline. From Havana to Baracoa and places in between, we are setting out on a journey to not only share the experience of surfing and skateboarding with local kids, but also to create awareness for the needs of Cuba’s surfers, skaters and children. We will be documenting just how much pleasure and smiles your unwanted, unloved and unused surf, skate and musical equipment can create on the Island.

Source | Royal70

All eyes on Cuba May 2011 – Attention all skaters

As the Royal 70 project prepare for an all out assault on Cuba’s coastline in August with the Recycle, Reuse, Revolution project the guys at Sugar’s Drop Shop and Cuba Skate are warming things up for us with their own assault. If you can help these guys out then please do. Its all goes to an amazing cause.

Attention All Skaters!!!
We are collecting old skateboard equipment to be refurbished and raising funds to buy new skateboards that will be taken to Cuba. There is a growing skate scene in Cuba but there aren’t any skate shops or any money to buy gear. Skaters only have the equipment that is brought on to the island by tourists so if a skateboard breaks there isn’t going to be another one to replace it. Unfortunately, skaters in Cuba have gone weeks or even months looking for another deck to ride and if you skate you can imagine how bad that must suck! Please bring in your old wheels, trucks, decks and even T-shirts or donate a couple of bucks and we will put it down on some new stuff.
We have no political agenda, we are just a family of skaters who see a need and want to help.
We plan on hand delivering the equipment ourselves in Cuba in May.

We would really appreciate your help in getting our brothers and sisters back on board.
To help these guys out visit www.sugarsdropshop.com

Source | Royal70

 

American brings skateboarding diplomacy to Cuba

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN

Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Rene Lecour’s plan started out simple: Take his son on a skateboarding trip to someplace “epic.”

While he and his son, Kaya, were searching the internet, they saw videos of Cuba’s skateboarders making do with beaten-up and jerry-rigged boards.

Economic shortages and the U.S. embargo make it difficult to get most sporting equipment there. For skateboarders, it was nearly impossible.

“We both said right away, ‘We are going there,’ ” Lecour recalled.

Lecour owns a chain of skateboard shops in South Florida and thought his contacts in the skating community would make it easy for him to bring boards to Cuba.

He was wrong.

Charity Initiative – Skateboards For Cuban Youths

A generous family based in Miami, Florida, has launched a project to help children who have nothing. The Lecour family hopes they can help Cuban youths find the passion of skateboarding and lift themselves from the poverty and oppression they face daily. The family is holding a charity event this weekend to raise funds and collect new and used skateboarding parts and clothes.
“Ten year olds get it,” Rene Lecour, the son of a Cuban immigrant, told me today. He reminisced about watching his son, Kaya, fix the skateboard of a boy he met in a local park. Kaya used his own parts and didn’t ask for anything in return. He did it out of the kindness of his ten-year-old heart. That was five years ago.