Yard Core
The first 'Yard Core' Carnival fitness session arranged by the Sticks in de Yard group.
The sessions aim to build the endurance and comfort of a group of walkers, getting them ready for the challenge of walking the 2019 Trinbago Carnival.
6th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Bend
Mekhai Weekes demonstrates her flexibility during a Yard Core warmup session.
6th January, 2019.
#exercise #trinbago #yardcore
Bent
Mekhai Weekes demonstrates her flexibility during a Yard Core warmup session.
6th January, 2019.
#exercise #trinbago #yardcore
Wrapped
Yejide Cordner carefully ties her signature, yellow sticks before session.
6th January, 2019.
#sticksindeyard #trinbago #yellow #yardcore
Figures
A row of stick-walks at a rugby goalpost on the Queen's Park Savannah.
6th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Mundial
A young footballer beats his way past a very tall opponent.
6th January, 2019.
#queensparksavannah #rep868 #trinbago #yardcore
Yej
Yejide Cordner. Queen's Park Savannah—6th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
De Moko Man
Moko jumbie costume designer, Alan Vaughan, attends Yard Core.
6th January, 2019.
#sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Ring
Warming up prior to a 'Yard Core' at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain.
6th January, 2019.
#exercise #fitness #sticksindeyard #yardcore
Boogie
Mekhai Weekes and Rory Johnson randomly explode into dance as they walk to their cars.
6th January, 2019.
#fitness #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Lilac
Alan Vaughan helps Mekhai Weekes tie herself into her sticks.
Queen's Park Savannah—6th January, 2019.
#queensparksavannah #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Adjustment
Michael Lee Poy climbs a tree to access the leg of a stick-walker who needs adjustment.
6th January, 2019.
#fitness #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Rooftop
Sitting on the roof of an SUV, Max dons his sticks with the help of a friend on the ground.
Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain—6th January, 2019.
#fitness #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
We
Rory looks at an article in the January to February 2019 Caribbean Beat magazine which features moko jumbies, Moko Sõmõkow, and some of the members of 'Sticks in de Yard'.
20th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #queensparksavannah #sticksindeyard #rawtherapee
Fast Draw
Powerdrill in hand, Michael Lee Poy works on sticks from out the back of a car.
20th January, 2019.
#queensparksavannah #maker #rawtherapee
Formation
Stretches during the Yard Core warmup.
20th January, 2019.
#exercise #stretch #yardcore
Smiles
Max shows off his way of stretching during a Yard Core warmup.
20th January, 2019.
#expression #sticksindeyard #yardcore
Strapping
Getting tied and ready to walk stick at the third 'Yard Core' session, arranged by 'Sticks in de Yard'.
20th January, 2019.
#queensparksavannah #sticksindeyard #trinbago #yardcore
Approaching...
In the distance, stickwalkers approach.
Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain—20th January, 2019.
#queensparksavannah #sticksindeyard #trinbago
Fluid
Kriston 'Fearless Leader' Chen demonstrates a modified lara.
Queen's Park Savannah—20th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #brianlara #queensparksavannah #sticksindeyard
Jumbie Walker
Kriston Chen powerfully leaps out of a manoeuvre.
20th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #sticksindeyard #yardcore
Peschier Cemetery
Kirwin walks past the Peschier Cemetery, found close to the middle of the one square-kilometre area of the Queen's Park Savannah. 20th January, 2019.
The cemetery was constructed around the burial sites of the two eldest sons of Henri and Céleste Rose Peschier. The boys died in their early teens of Yellow Fever in 1786.
#history #queensparksavannah #trinbago
Within the Walls
Originally from South France, Henri Peschier migrated to Grenada in 1760 evading religious affliction in the decades leading into the French Revolution.
In Grenada he met and married Céleste Rose de Beltgens, the daughter of a French nobelman. The pair moved to Trinidad in 1782, just at the onset of the Cedula of Population. Spanish Governor, Martin de Salaverria, granted them an expanse of land in Port of Spain.
With slaves, Henri Peschier cleared the region of forest and planted sugar cane, establishing also a factory. He named the estate 'Paradise'.
Soon after, in 1786, the two eldest sons of Henri and Céleste Rose Peschier died of Yellow Fever. They were buried on the estate and a very small cemetery constructed around them.
Not long after that, Henri Peschier himself died in 1791.
The estate, after changing hands a few times, would go on to become the Queen's Park Savannah and (possibly) part of the Botanical Gardans.
Today, stiltwalkers from the 'Sticks in de Yard' group—many of whom would be the descendants of Atlantic slaves and indentured workers—walk past the Peschier Cemetery on sticks.
20th January, 2019.
#caribbean #queensparksavannah #history #trinidad
An Overview
From his high vantage point atop a pair of sticks, Kirwin looks into the Peschier Cemetery, attempting to read the names on its graves.
20th January, 2019.
#history #queensparksavannah #trinbago
Jus' Cool
Jamal Arneaud walks through the Queen's Park Savannah with his characteristic calm and nonchalance.
20th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #savannah #stick
Ascension
Noelle Archer stands high above the Savannah grass on her newly-modified sticks.
20th January, 2019.
#culture #queensparksavannah #stiltwalker #trinidad
Trample It
Xica makes a huge stride.
Queen's Park Savannah—20th January, 2019.
#savannah #sticksindeyard #yardcore
Conductor
Michael Lee-Poy encourages the stick-walkers around him to loosen up and dance.
20th January, 2019.
#dance #queensparksavannah #yardcore
Evidence
After months of not-fully-successful attempts, Rory Johnson finally performs the squat. Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain—20th January, 2019.
#1000mokos #portofspain #squat #sticksindeyard
Chin is Up; Feet don't Stall
Wearing her sticks, Jada steps taller than the roadsigns she walks by.
Queen's Park Savannah—27th January, 2019.
#newway #roadsign #sticksindeyard #yardcore
