Posts Tagged ‘Gauteng’
VERT RAMP @ BASE 3 in MIDRAND Opening Day
Howzit doing Skaters?
It is finished – the mastermind behind the new 12.5ft vert ramp in Midrand, JHB is Jacques Allison and wait till you see what he has done. This vert ramp has a backdrop of the Base 3 lake that NO other vert ramp in SA has.
Firstly I would like to get the word out about the new ramp and I’m not that clued up on the process and what progressed and the timeline but I when there personally to meet with the guys behind BASE 3 and saw the ramp Jacques and his associates built – WOW!!! If you want a vert ramp built RIGHT then this is how you do it.
Details of event:
Date: Saturday 17 July 2010
Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Place: Base3 @ Leisure Lakes
Street address: Cnr R562 and Olifantsfontein Rd, Glen Austin, Midrand.
Entrance into Base3: R20
Vert entrance: Free
You can find updates on www.vert.co.za and there is going to be a HUGE opening day o
Base 3 at http://www.base3.co.za/ is the wakeboard and wakeskate playground in SA. Not only do we provide the best boardsport, entertainment, retail and eating experience, you will not find another venue like it in SA. Our entire development is to be housed in a unique large open-plan structure to maximise your watersports experience…
Jacques had a few people from Brazil that will visit SA, JHB soon to get some stories/footage with local skaters. Check out there their website: www.qix.com.br
Chat to you soon!
Kevin Du Toit
SLIP SKATE CO PRODUCT LAUNCH
Hey guys, just a reminder of the Slip product launch happening this saturday. Slip Skate Co will have a mini ramp comp and 12:00, a game of SKATE at 14:00, and best trick comp at 16:00.
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010
Time: 12:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Cnr 9th & 11th Roads, Erand, Midrand
There are absolutely NO entry fees for any of the comps, and there will be prizes to be won in each of the comps.
They will also have all the new Slip Skate Co products available at the event to ensure that everybody can get their hands on our new product range, which you can see at http://www.slipskateco.com/products/decks.html.
This is truly going to be an awesome day filled with tons of good skating, and we look forward to seeing all of you there.
You can catch all the details of the event, inclduing directions on the event page here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=239735100952&index=1
South African Skateboarding
Here is a great article we found supporting the Skateboarding industry in South Africa, you can also check it out @ : http://www.southafrica.net/sat/content/en/us/full-article?oid=18494&sn=Detail&pid=455
In South Africa, skateboarding was once seen as a reckless, antisocial sport. Its rebel nature has been smoothed down a little by sponsorships, proper skate parks and popular events. You’ll also find plenty of places where you can haul out your boards for some downhill rides.
In South Africa, skateboarding caught on in the mid-1960s, about a decade after it all began in North America.
In the beginning, some skateboarding documentaries made in the United States inspired young South Africans to break down their roller skates, find a solid plank of wood and build their own skateboards.
This resulted in angry adults being shoved off pavements and high medical bills as bones got broken, resulting in a negative attitude towards skateboarders. Then professionally-built boards came on the market, and life became a little easier. Still, those pavements were just not big enough to handle jostling pedestrians and mad teenage skateboarding South Africans.
Enter the skateboarding park. Enter all manner of protective clothing for hands, knees, heads and elbows. It became very cool to dress like Robocop and perform at the local shopping centre skate park, because you can do so much more on the board these days.
Like surfing, skateboarding in South Africa has become slick, part of a multi-billion dollar sport merchandising industry – and a lot more fun than the old days of planks on wheels. Nowadays, you get your polyurethane speedboards, your free-style boards and your mountain boards for off-tar rough experiences.
South African skateboarding is now blessed with skate parks in all its major cities. Take Wave House in Umhlanga Ridge, Durban, for instance. Wave House has a 4 000-square metre skatepark designed by the legendary Tony Hawk, winner of 10 World Skating Championships.
Indigo Skate Camp runs the Vodacom Winterslam at the Durban Beachfront in July, and the lineup of performance is just heaven on wheels.
The Gauteng province has the Germiston Bowl and energy drink Red Bull holds an annual Downhill Extreme in Cape Town, where speeds of more than 100 km/h are often recorded. No more mayhem on the sidewalks of South Africa.
