Okay honestly this is the most unexpected discovery I’ve made in Jamaica! I had no idea anyone attempted skateboarding there! I have heard there’s a rollerskating arena somewhere but not skateboarding. One of my friends in JA last year told me he’d seen it on TV and would like to try.
Last month I went to Boston Bay, in Portland, for the first time and I’ll be damned if I didn’t discover this primitive, YET functioning skate park! Complete with one ramp and a rail (the long rectangular concrete piece on the ground).
I loved finding this out because Jamaicans will truly try anything! Heck, they have a bobsled team and a dogsledding team!! I wonder if there are any more of these little skate places around the island?
The reason I was so entertained by this was because my son used to be a competitive skateboarder in his younger teens, and we are fortunate enough to have the largest concrete skate park in the world, where we live. My son got to learn and excel on the best available so HE is the reason I took this video! To show him that even though there was no world class skate park here, these kids were having a great old time trying it anyways! I remember right after I shot the video I actually had to call him to tell him what I was watching.
Hilarious! Loved it!
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