The Community Collective Myanmar project

Hey there good people of the Internet.

We are currently out in Myanmar working with the guys at Make Life Skate Life to build Yangon's first free-use community skatepark.
Will be posting some progress shots and reptile selfies up here every now and then for anyone who's interested.

MLB>KLP>YGN. Racking up those frequent flyers.

Went straight to checking out the site, a small park near downtown Yangon.

We were a little nervous about pulling out all the gym equipment in fear of retaliation from local body builders so thought we best get training.

Local tree surgeons going to work

Shoes optional

Although the government had given us permission to build on the land the local council and elders hadn't gotten the memo and weren't too happy about a bunch of white guys coming in and messing up their park. After a few days of meetings with the elders we got the go ahead and full support.

Logistical nightmare #436

Got some signs made up to inform people of the project. We legit.

Home boy rocked up with his board eager to hit the park.

Rob D came by the site to check on progress

One of the few good skate spots in Yangon.

The park backs on to a main road so we had to wait till midnight for traffic to die down to get a shipping container delivered to act as storage. We couldn't get a crane in to move it so they brought a fork lift instead.

2 hours later at 2am we finally got her in place by balancing the container on the small forks and riding it up a sketchy mud bank

Went for a bit of a cruise the next day over the river to scope out the area.

Wanderlust

Reunited with old lovers.
crew is growing by the day, we have about 22 with 15 nationalities

Picking up supplies.

On the way back from tool shopping we stumbled across a roller blading contest at a make shift set up under a bridge

Rollerblading isn't dead, it just moved to Myanmar.

Killing it guys!!! Can't wait to see this unfold. Amazing work

Been slogging it out for the past week working some long ass hours to get the park done before the deadline on Saturday. Here's a recap of the past week

Hot tip: Bunnings has magnesium floats for $16. Brought a couple along and bent them up on site.

Worksafe approved.