{"id":1727,"date":"2014-09-23T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2016-07-20T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T06:08:15","slug":"roller-skating-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/roller-skating-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Roller skating in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roller skating can be a fun leisure activity, a competitive sport, or a mode of transportation. While it is practised by numerous young people, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture doesn\u2019t recognize it.<\/strong>-By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Young roller skaters in their exercise \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

It seems dangerous and unbelievable. How those young people learn the proper stance to glide and stop in the roads full of busses, bikes, motorcycles and passengers. If drivers do not pay attention, the young roller skaters can cause many accidents.
\nThey often use National Road No. 1, which is often called \u201cBujumbura-Bugarama\u201d. \u201cWe often use the Bujumbura-Bugarama road because there the speed is high. Surely, accidents may occur. Some of us are found in the bushes alive or dead\u201d, says one of them at the bus stop \u2018Gare du Nord\u2019 when practising his sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my son began skating, I feared for his life\u201d, a mother of one of the skaters complains. \u201cI forbade him many times to run through those roads full of buses and passengers. But in vain, he loves his sport.\u201d She indicates that sometimes her son comes back injured due to an accident that occurred during his exercise. \u201cThis sport is very dangerous, he has already lost his teeth\u201d, she regrets.
\nIt is worth noting that most roller skaters do not have sufficient equipment such as a helmet, knee pads and wrist guards. Another skater says that it is difficult to quit practicing once you begin. \u201cOnce you learn the proper stance and how to glide and stop, you feel so good and nothing can stop you\u201d, he says.
\nHe indicates that he learnt the roller skating techniques through internet and TV. The first time he hit the streets, he felt he didn\u2019t have control over the skates and lost his balance. He tried a couple of times before he felt comfortable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t do anything for them\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

While roller skating has been practised in Burundi for a few years, it is still not recognized by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
\nPatrick Ndayisenga, Director General of Sports and Leisure in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture indicates that nothing can be done to help them. \u201cNormally, if there is a new sport, the members create their own structure, statute and leaders. Then, they may present their statute at the Ministry in charge of Sports. We only help those federations and associations which are in conformity with the law\u201d, Ndayisenga states. Ndayisenga sees roller skating as a mode of transportation. \u201cThere are those who know very well how to glide and those who are really beginners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roller skating can be a fun leisure activity, a competitive sport, or a mode of transportation. While it is practised by numerous young people, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture doesn\u2019t recognize it.-By Diane Uwimana It seems dangerous and unbelievable. How those young people learn the proper stance to glide and stop in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[36,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}