Youth Square’s ‘Let’s Glow Skate!’ exhibition attracted over a thousand participants to promote skateboarding culture with local skateboarding athletes

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 5 June 2021 – Organised by Youth
Square for the first time, the ten-day ‘Let’s Glow Skate!’ exhibition and
workshops have been successfully concluded in May, which brings skateboarding
to the public from street to Youth Square and promotes this healthy and
professional sport. The event has aroused public interest and successfully
attracted over a thousand participants to join.

To provide a more comprehensive understanding
of skateboarding to participants, different exhibition areas have been set at Y Studio which helped public
to learn more about skateboard from the easy to the difficult. Some skateboards featuring
Hong Kong elements
were also displayed
to enrich public
knowledge of skateboarding. Youth Square has also invited
professional coaches, Walking
Chen and J Lin, to host the skateboarding workshops and share the
fun with youngsters in full gear. Participants were able to enjoy the fun of
skateboarding through learning basic skills for free!

“I am so happy to see many people joined this
workshop! I am impressed by a pair of young people that they came all the way
from Tin Shui Wai to Youth Square at Chai Wan for participating in the workshop!” said J Lin, one of the
skateboarding coaches. Many participants also expressed how excited they were
after the workshop. “We are very grateful that Youth Square has provided an
indoor venue for us to join a skateboarding workshop for free, it is indeed
quite expensive to join a skateboarding class. I fall in love with
skateboarding after this trial, I will get a skateboard to practise more in the
future!” said Mr Leung, one of the workshop participants.

In addition, Youth Square has invited Luk
Chun Yin (“Chun”), a local skateboarding athlete, together with Walking Chen
and J Lin, the workshop coaches, to perform impressive skateboarding skills at Y Platform. “We are thankful that Youth Square has offered
a well-equipped venue for us to promote skateboarding. Now it has become one of
the sports in the Olympics, I believe more people will stop stereotyping this
sport. I am expecting to have more people to join this healthy and fun sport!”
said Chun.

Youth Square has been providing a relaxed, reliable and safe environment for
youth to explore every possibility of their potential. This first ‘Let’s Glow
Skate!’ skateboarding event was curated and organised by trainees of ‘YS Career
Experience Programme’, a 6-month on-the-job training programme providing them
with a chance to organise an event in addition to their normal duties. We are
looking forward to organising more fun and healthy activities to grow with the
youth in future!

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