Please come support Puddy Zwennis this Saturday the 24th of July 2010 for his Launch Party @ Hotbox Studio’s ! If you don’t know what the Skate for Change project is about it is that Puddy Zwennis will travel on the 31 of July 2010 on his skateboard from Joburg to Cape town to raise money for the SOS Children’s Villages SA.  He will have to do 25km a day to complete a distance of a 1800km in 3 months. So its for an amazing cause!!

There is going to be give-a ways and a Electric guitar Grand Prize for one lucky chap !

Please come help the Fight for charity by joining us for a night lined-up with Excitement and Rock hard Partying !

Party Details at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144173255597810

I was ASR, Action Sports Retail Expo, in San Diego, the largest sports expo in the world and there was a booth with these cool looking boards.  I wouldn’t get one personally but I did like checking them out and I thought that some of you might like to see them as well – SO ENJOY!!!

If you’d like one of these boards please feel free to contact Bob @ 201-512-1600 to place your order who is based in the States or email Jack Panzarella jack@theneongroup.com

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

The film features full part by Familia’s Steph Morgan. Go to http://www.facebook.com/l/3ea62;www.thistimetomorrowvideo.com/TTT/TTT_Home.html to see the trailer.

Help as all the money made at the bar of the Cape Town premiere will go into the Cape Town skate park fund.

Screening Details:
Cape Town
Saturday, 27 March, 21:00 (9PM) – DOORS OPEN 7.30
Woodstock Industrial Center, 66 Albert Road, Woodstock.

Durban
Premiere:
Saturday, 27 March, 17:00 (5PM) Revolution Skate Park,
Pavillion.

If you havent heard, Pro-X is going down in Cape Town.

On the 6th and 7th of March, riders from BMX, FMX, Wakeboarding, Skateboarding, Supercross and Trials will be flocking down to Cape Town to take part in the most Extreme event of the year!

To check out the event, click on the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=271333169355&ref=ts

Pro-X Live, hosted by Complete Events (the guys who bring you Rocking the Daisies) will be mashing it up on the Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as extreme entertainment, loads of prizes to be won, competitions, expo’s, best trick -undoubtedly keeping you entertained the whole weekend.
Join the Pro-X facebook group @ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11348935&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=188539097750&id=736195112#!/group.php?gid=188539097750&ref=ts

Check out the Pro-X website to stay at the forefront http://www.pro-x.co.za

There is only one way out – FLAT OUT!

Go off in 2010 – signing out,

Kevin Du Toit

Ahoy Hillbombers!

I got this cool message from Lloyd and Massimo.  For those of you who are in Cape Town this weekend, be sure to get to Rafikis at 7pm on Friday for the SAGRA AGM where you can have your say about the future of longboarding in South Africa.

Join the facebook group to keep posted @ http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1089388330432#!/group.php?gid=89318043804

There is talk of a race in Cape Town in March or April, we’ll let you know as soon as it is confirmed but for now let us know who is keen, maybe we can turn it into a fat road trip?

We are currently in discussions with SAGRA about throwing a race at Schanskop in either August or September. Racing Krugers was an option but it has almost completely been decided against mainly because of the insanely bad smell and rider safety. We’re open to any suggestions you might have for the race so post your opinions on the wall. We obviously need as many riders as possible so we’re hoping to get a bus to bring the guys up from Cape Town, maybe even get it sponsored.

There are a few hill hunting adventure missions being investigated within the downhill family at the moment. Lesotho, Mpumalanga and even Angola are on the list. We might even do a long distance mission from Jo’burg to Durban later this year! Keep checking the group for updates. Join our sister group “Longboard Stellenbosch” and listen in on their crazy discussions too.

Whatever you do, just ride and share the stoke.

Always be awesome,
Lloyd and Massimo

Check out this link to Ultimate X this weekend, its gonna be a good day and Dope Industries will have a stall so come by some new threads.

*OLD SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS* in association with* STRETCH* experiential presents…..ULTIMATE X..//

*20 Feb 2010* – Granger Bay (Behind Roof top parking area)V&A Waterfront
Gates open @ 11am and Event will Close @ 10pm

DOPE Industries @ http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=18383716851&ref=ts

Check out the event for details @http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260449631335&ref=mf

KDT:  Hein Kotze’ can you tell us a little about yourself and your breakdown in the world of skateboarding?

HK:  I guess it’s quite a cliché by now, but one day I saw a few of the older guys in my primary school flipping this huge (back then it seemed huge) 2-stair gap.  I was super stoked, and used to sit there for hours even though nobody ever really landed it.  After that day a few guys and me picked up a “Wasp” setup from Makro.  This was the start of endless Fridays, running over into Saturdays, skating sessions.  Nobody had cars, so we used to walk…and I mean WALK.  Especially when Werner Lamprecht and me started skating together.  Our regular Friday-spot (and closest) was about 4km from where we stayed (seemed like 100km, after having to climb a mountain of a street, to the top of one hill on your way back).  Every single Friday we were in this guy’s yard skating the most perfect box and bank setup.  Even after he had moved we would jump the gate and chill there the entire afternoon.  Since then I couldn’t get over the feeling of landing a new trick, perfecting an old one, or getting excited over a new loading-bay filled with weeds that need cutting and surfaces in need of sweeping.

KDT:  So, how was your summer? What did you get up to?

HK:  It was EXCELLENT!

Had my first holiday for the entire year and caught up on some, really essential, habits; sleeping until 13h00, skating until 19h00, chilling with my girlfriend till 1 AM.  Now that’s the life…ha-ha.

Oh yeah! We went to Margate for a week as well…that was rad.

We got some mad pics, made some new friends and forgot about the reality that is; “the working life”

Now that’s a holiday in its true form.

KDT:  How do you manage to keep on top of your work when you spend so much time skating?

HK:  My work IS skating…or anything that was influenced by it – if I look at it like that I will pretty much enjoy anything I do.

I must admit that 2009 was a mad-scramble of a year.

February I heard that my application for a bursary was denied, and thus ended my student life in one sentence.  I had to find a job, had to start paying my own things etc.  Crazy.   I wanted to do photography.

I decided, as in skating, that it’s something you can pretty much learn by yourself (with some advice from others) - and thus started playing more with photography and design.  Up to the point where, after only one year (and no qualification behind my name), my own business card says; photographer/graphic designer.   And through it all skating has been one the main sources of new ideas/media/inspiration.

You’ll always find time to do what you like, as long as you on like what you do.

KDT:  What’s the best way to go about becoming a good skateboarder?

HK:  Depends on what your definition of “good” is I guess.  To me it’s doing something as simple as a bs-180 off a ramp, landing it 100 times…and then, finally, landing it perfect.  I’d like to think that a good skateboarder does it for himself.

KDT:  What’s the best experience you’ve had while skateboarding?

HK:  To many to count, to many stories to tell, to many great friends to mention all.

Recently: winning the game-of-skate at the Slip Skate Co launch event.  It was the first contest I’ve ever entered, and I was surprisingly nervous.  Me, Werner and two other guys were in the final.  The game went on and JJ and me were the only survivors.  That guy has got some mad style, and it was quite intimidating each time he made my tricks look effortless. We went on for, what seemed like, forever.  The crowd was cheering each time someone set a mad trick, and freaked out even more when the opponent managed to equally nail it.

It was INSANE.

At the end I managed to land the most perfect nollie-bigspin-flip (one of those tricks you “have landed before”, but only hope to land as a last resort). Again JJ got insanely close to actually landing a trick you can see he has probably never tried before…but to no success. I was finally declared winner, and received my first “brand-new” deck in probably a year’s time.  I was super stoked and equally brain-dead after planning what to do next every time JJ missed a set.

KDT:  Your photography is awesome, what advice do you have about capturing that right moment?

HK:  Again it’s about; if you’re doing what you love, it will come naturally.

Each moment is different, and each photo is opinion based. Werner and me will sometimes spend half an hour shooting a pic after finally agreeing on where we want it taken from, how the exposure must be etc. A very important thing is knowing your camera and lenses.  Each one is different, and each one makes an image look different.  In theory they must all work the same, but from my experience this is not the case at all.  My settings/focal length etc. can be identical to Werner or Reuben’s, but you’ll still end up with three images that look completely different.

Just a quick update for the event that’s happening on Sunday 24th Jan. Frontside Ramps & Rails are having their wonderful Vegan friends cooking and selling Veggie Hotdogs!  You are more than welcome to bring your own food and drinks as its in the park so a puza picnic is encouraged:)

Word from the crew at Frontside Ramps & Rails – I was told by my mate that we need to give directions as some peeps dont know how to get there. Being a skater i am generally quite lazy so ill hook you up with the street name:) its on WESTWOLD WAY @ 3 PM near Zoo Lake. You will see us skating the old tennis courts!

Bring your Boards, Bro’s, Betty’s,Beers and anything else that might be rad! if there is anyone wanting to gorge on the Devils Lettuce then please make sure to do it with EVERYONE!  hahaha! but seriously…we dont want any shit to ruin our day so please keep that in mind.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!

ROLL FAST FOREVER!

EVENT DETAILS @ http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?tid=1218237136698#/event.php?eid=422866180477&index=1

Please support the FRONTSIDE  RAMPS & RAILS by joining their facebook group @ http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?tid=1218237136698#/group.php?gid=186677618740