Skate Scene in 
Bangladesh

In June 2017 DOB SKATESHOP started its journey as an online skateshop with only 24 skateboards. 

We rent our very first physical store at Rajuk Trade Center. We invited all local skaters to join us at the opening ceremony. 

Jupepe Hirota, a skater from Japan came to visit Bangladesh. Whenever a skater visits a foreign country, they first search for a local skate shop so that they can meet local skaters. Hirota did the same and came to visit us at our skate shop. He spent 2 days with us, had some great skate sessions together, and taught locals how to skate.

Being the very first skateshop in the country, always our aim was to help and grow the local community. We started working with the local community ever since we start our business. As part of the community and culture development on May 16, 2019, we arranged a local skaters meetup where we discussed how we can work together for the community and what we should do in the future to develop the culture. After the discussion, we had our iftar as it was Ramadan and we do a memorable skate session with so many talented skaters.

June 21 is the international Go Skateboarding Day. Every skaters and skater organization celebrates this day worldwide. For the first time in the history of Bangladesh, we celebrated Go Skateboarding Day in 2019. More than 50 skaters joined this event all over the country and our event got featured on the country’s most popular online magazine. 

Read the article here.

By working for the community we met some other community builders around the world and one of them was “YUWA for Change”, a nonprofit organization working to develop the skateboarding culture in Nepal. We invited them to Bangladesh and 9 of their talented skaters came to visit Bangladesh. In this program, we have shared local cultures, skate lessons, and advice to build up a better community.

No competition, No Progress. 
To assess the progress of our skaters, we arrange the “DOB SKATE COMPETITION 2019”. It was the annual and very first skate competition for our skaters. Here is the result of this competition. 
Kafi Ahmed – Champion
1st Runners Up – Eftid Mahdin
2nd Runners Up – Si Rijan

Steve long is a German Youtuber who loves Bangladesh and visits Bangladesh very often and made so many vlogs here. He has countless amount of Bangladeshi fans and we invited him to make a vlog with us and promote skateboarding in his Video.  He was kind enough to accept our invitation and made an awesome vlog on Skateboarding.

Here is the link to his vlog.

21st June is the International Go Skateboarding Day. But in 2020, the situation was worse than ever. Covid-19 Strikes in March and it lasts till June. Due to Covid-19 it was hard to gather all the skaters and celebrate the day but we managed to celebrate the day with a few of our local skaters. We moved to different places in the city and skated there.