DUBAI  R A G E  team in Egypt April 2006.

Friday 14 April 2006, the Dubai Rage team consisting of (Maysam Faraj, Evan Collisson and Colm Noonan) with the company of Tamer Ramadan and Tanner Lostan(Abu Dhabi) arrived to Alexandria, Egypt. Impact Crew (Omar and Cherif Herrawi) were with them since their first day and guided them around alex and getting their train tickets for Cairo. The team left to Cairo on Saturday 15 where fellow skater Fayek Helmi was waiting for them at the train station. They stayed in a decent hotel in Heliopolis and ripped up every skate spot and even discovered some awesome new spots to rip.

They spent some great time skating, sightseeing and filming around cairo with the help of Fayek and Yehia Ossama. On Tuesday 18, Impact Crew met Rage team back in Cairo and stayed with them at the same hotel taking good care of them.

Rage at Alex train station leaving to Cairo.

HUGE SESSION!! HUGE SESSION!! HUGE SESSION!!

On Wednesday 19 April, Impact and Rage team went out warming up around some spots close to the hotel. Everyone was excited for the RAGE Huge session, and were all ready to rip Tiba Spot.

Arriving at Tiba at 4pm, the team skated the 6 set throwing tricks around.  Colm landing tre flip and Fs flip and Maysam Ollie North were the 6 set highlight. We all then moved to the driveway between the Tiba Cinema and Tiba Mall where 2 rails, a Grindbox and a kicker ramp were positioned building a mini course.

The session was extremely fun and exciting with lots of surprising tricks.

Maysam  Fakie boardslide 270 out, B/s boardslide to 5-0 and his amazing grind and manual combos.

Evan did a great show landing kickflip F/s boardslide the high rail, kickflip nose manual the whole box and bluntslide shove out.

Evan throwing a Bluntslide Shove-out	Colm F/s Smith Grind
Maysam Switch F/s boardslide	Tanner B/s 5-0

Colm landed his crisp tricks with his wicked style making everyone go crazy!! On the Yellow rail he did kickflip B/s lipslide, switch krook and hurricane grind, blunt slides.  On the box he nollie heeled to B/s nose slide. Tanner was so psyched to skate the box, he tailslided to fakie, 5-0 and nose grinded the whole box. He krooked and switch 50-50 the whole rail. It was fun having Tamer around, he skated well the course and tre flipped the 2 set by the driveway.
		Colm Switch Krook

It was then when Maysam declared "HIGH OLLIE COMPETITION!!"
Decks were positioned instantly, starting with one then two and so on and everyone had 3 tries per set of boards. A lot of skaters qualified to 4 boards, and the competition was clearly between Abdel Kerim and Marawan Salama.

Marawan won the competition by ollying 5 boards, Abdel Kerim came second.Each of them won assortment pack of stickers by Rage and Impact.

Marawan Salama Ollie 5 boards	Marawan Salama and Abdel kerim withtheir prizes

Tanner B/s 180ed the 5 boards and him and Evan ollied 6.

Maysam, Colm and Tanner climbed up a one floor height and started tossing stickers and Impact Tshirts.  It was SUPER FUN!

Tanner, Maysam and Colm tossing freebies

8pm, the session was called over and everyone said bye to Rage team which headed to City Stars to grab dinner and Chill out.

Thanks to everyone who showed up in the session.

Rage left back to Alexandria on Friday 21, and left back to UAE on the 22nd of April...It was great having you here in Egypt guys, good luck out there!

Rage Huge Session

Evan  B/s Tailslide

Evan Ollie

Sketching to Fayek's limo, Maysam driving.	Tanner, Yehia, Cherif, Omar, Evan
Colm Switch B/s Krook

Read the full Rage Egypt trip article on RAGE mag issue #2.

Visit Rage website on: http://www.dubaidesertextreme.com

skateIMPACT would like to thank the whole Rage team for their great kindness, support and help to have a better skateboarding scene in Egypt.

Special thanks to Evan Collisson for sharing his pics...