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Happy day: Gage Quitugua, 11, of Barrigada Heights was promoted from white belt to yellow belt on July 1 by black belt Stephen Roberto, the chief instructor at Purebred/Lloyd Irvin Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy. Quitugua is the son of Godwin Quitugua and Stephanie Campos. He is a seventh-grader at Bishop Baumgartner Memorial Catholic School. He plans to continue with Brazilian jiu-jitsu until he’s a black belt.

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Youth celebrate ‘Go Skateboarding Day’ at Dededo Skate park

 

Friday, 26 June 2009 00:53 by Evan Carter| Variety News Staff

  Non-profit youth skating organization SK8 Guam held “Skate The Date: A Go Skateboarding Day Event” this past Father’s Day at the

“Cheesebread” performs a trick Sunday, June 21, 2009 during the “Game of Fokai” competition portion of the Skate the Date: A Go Skateboarding Day Event at Santa Barbara Skate Park in Dededo. Photos by Matt Weiss

ededo Skate Park.

According to SK8 Guam president Jon Jose, despite being on Fathers Day, nearly 50 competitors showed up to battle in two events for bragging rights and prizes.  “Everyone enjoyed themselves and everyone who participated walked away with some sort of prize,” Jose told the Variety. “It stayed true to the spirit of ‘Go Skateboarding Day.’ The love of skateboarding made the event a success.”

To start the competition, youth skaters tested their luck in the Poker Run, which was a free-for-all event where skaters had to hit five spots around the skatepark area. After skating for 10 minutes at each spot, each skater was awarded a playing card from a full deck. After the fifth spot the skaters gathered their cards and turned them in to see who had the best poker hand.

Mario Espinosa had the best luck and took the win with a three of a kind aces.

“The event was intended to even out the playing field, due to the fact that this event required no skill. It also gave those who never won a skateboarding event, a chance to actually win,” said Jose.

Later in the night, skaters jumped back into ‘the grind’ to battle in the Game of Fokai, to the satisfaction of the nearly one-hundred spectators watching anxiously on from the surrounding fence. Unlike the first event, skill was a necessary prerequisite for competitors.

Proceeding a heated battle between the youth tricksters, Josh Mills was crowned ‘king of the park’ after using a variety of heel-flip variations to earn the win.

Jon Sumbang used a combination of of shuvit and pressure flip-tricks to take the second spot.

Jon Sumbang pulls off an Aerial-flip Sunday, June 21, 2009 during the “Game of Fokai” competition portion of the Skate the Date Go Skateboarding Event at Santa Barbara Skate Park in Dededo. Sumbang captured 2nd place.

Third place went to Julio Canovas.

Along with SK8 Guam, the following companies joined forces to make the event possible: DV8 Boardshop, DNA Evolution, Fokai Industries, Monster Energy Drink, In4mation, Vans, Darkstar, Enjoi, Almost, Globe, Toy Machine, Foundation, The Department of Parks and Recreation and the Dededo Mayor’s Office.

“This was our sixth event of 2009, and there are more to come,” emphasized Jose. “We are looking at doing more events that are aimed at educating the public about skateboarding, and the positive things that can come out of it.”

SK8 Guam’s main mission is to positively promote skateboarding on Guam, as well as increase the skill level of the skateboarders on island.

“We plan to do this by continuing to throw contests and clinics.” explained Jose. “We are also working on bringing professional skateboarders to do demos and workshops. Another goal is to send our local skateboarders off-island to compete.”

To join SK8 Guam, visit DV8 Boardshop in Tumon. Membership includes a T-shirt, a 10% discount at DNA Evolution and its affiliated stores, and discount for all competition fees. Members will also receive email reminders about all upcoming events.

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Results for Game of Fokai
1st – Josh Mills
2nd – Jon Sumbang
3rd – Julio Canovas

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CNN) — A young Iranian woman named Neda is gunned down in one of the most iconic images of the last week. Another walks down the street, defiantly showing off her hair and body in a revealing dress. And still another woman says she’s not scared of paramilitary forces — no matter how many times she gets beaten.

Women have taken to the streets of Tehran. “This shows the new face of Iran,” one expert says.

“When they want to hit me, I say hit. I have been hit so many times and this time it doesn’t matter. I just want to help my brothers and sisters,” says the 19-year-old woman whose identity is being withheld by CNN for her safety.

Amid the clashes and chaos, there has been a recurring scene on the streets of Tehran: Women, in their scarves and traditional clothing, at the heart of the struggle. Some are seen collecting rocks for ammunition against security forces, while video showed one woman trying to protect a fallen pro-government militiaman wounded in the government crackdown. At Shiraz University, riot police clubbed women dressed in black robes. “Don’t beat them, you bastards,” one man yells.

When security forces come to attack, the 19-year-old woman protester says she looks them in the eye and asks: “Why do you kill your brother? Why do you hit your mother, your sisters?”

“We all tell them, if you’re Iranian, you shouldn’t do that to your people, to your own country’s people,” she told CNN by phone. 

But it’s the woman known as Neda who has become the symbol of women on the front line that has galvanized opponents of the Iranian regime. In a widely circulated video, Neda is seen in the middle of protests over the weekend. She is shot and drops to the ground. Blood runs from the side of her mouth as a few people, including her music professor traveling with her, press on her chest and shout her name. One pleads, “Do not be afraid.” The camera closes in on her face as her eyes roll back and are still.

Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the image of Neda and other women at the protests showed the difference from the 1979 revolution. “The iconic pictures from the revolution 30 years ago were bearded men. This shows the new face of Iran — the young women who are the vanguards of Iran.”

Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, agreed that Neda was becoming a symbol for all the women who have become involved in the turmoil that has followed the disputed election. “She will become the image of this brutality and the role — the truly significant role — that women have played in fighting this regime. I think that women are the unsung heroes of the last few years. They are the ones who began chipping away the absolute authority of the mullahs.”

The protests haven’t just been confined to Iran’s everyday women. The daughter of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was arrested over the weekend while taking part in a protest. She was later released.

In addition, Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of Mir Hossein Moussavi, whose apparent defeat in Iran’s presidential election has sparked the unprecedented demonstrations, campaigned for her husband, an unusual step in politics in Iran. Her public support of his candidacy underscored his professed support for women’s rights. Learn more about the timeline of events »

And in another act of defiance, apparently from after the election, a woman who appears to be in her 20s or 30s walks down a street in Tehran, showing off her body in a revealing dress and displaying her long, curly hair. In Iran, women are forbidden to show their hair, and they must keep their bodies covered. “Lady, is it a revolution already?” one female driver says as she passes by.

The 19-year-old demonstrator, who spoke by phone with CNN, says women are out in the streets in much larger numbers than men. She provided CNN with images of paramilitary forces on Saturday confronting protests, just before she was beaten. She says she was beaten again during protests Monday.

“The women are all together and they say, ‘We’re going to stay here.’ There are so more [women] than men,” she said, referring to the number of women protesters. “Until now, the women didn’t have a chance to express themselves, to say that we are important in our country’s future. But now, they can play an important role in our freedom. It’s a good chance for us.”

Is she optimistic?

“I’m absolutely optimistic, because history has taught me that all the revolutions start like this,” she said. “Every revolution has violence and some people die, but nothing stays like this forever.”

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