Video: Skateboarding in Port Elizabeth

South African skaters Pieter Retief, Jansen van Staden, Yann Horowitz, Khulu Dlamini from the adidas Skateboarding Team South Africa recently visited Port Elizabeth. As always on their trips - also check their videos about Cape Town, Durban and Maputo - they got themselves filmed while skating through the city and came up with a unique skater's view on Port Elizabeth. Kiff! Kudos adi three leaf, Pieter, Jansen, Yann and Khulu for the video! Enjoy!

adidas skateboarding | Port Elizabeth | South Africa from adi three leaf on Vimeo.

Video: Longboarding in Cape Town

Downhill pro skateboarder Matt Ardene, a local from Cape Town, filmed this great short film for Fibretec Skateboards. The 04:20 minutes film is telling quite a simple story: one person chases the fleeting feeling of perfection that lifts him from the daily grind up to a quiet place in the clouds. Enjoy! Kudos Matt!

Longboarding -Your Place in the Clouds from Matt Arderne on Vimeo.

Skateboarding: The Maloof Money Cup is returning to South Africa (28 - 30 Sept 2012)

One of the world's greatest skateboarding events, the Maloof Money Cup, is returning to South Africa and will be will be held from 28 - 30 September 2012 in Kimberley in the Northern Cape. Last year, Kimberley became the 1st location outside of the United States to host the skateboarding event.
Some of the biggest names in international skateboarding, such as Greg Lutzka, Manny Santiago, Andrew Reynolds (all street), Alex Perelson, Adam Taylor and Bob Burnquist (all vert.), as well as locals skaters Christi Wiehahn, Moses Adams and Dlamini Dlamini (all street), will participate in the Maloof Money Cup VIII in Kimberley.



The Maloof Money Cup, which was founded by Gavin and Joe Maloof, is the world's largest skateboarding competition in terms of prize money. Individual skaters can take home as much as $160,000 for winning an event. The Maloof Money Cup's main goal is to raise the awareness of skateboarding all around the world.

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Skateboarding film: A roadtrip to Maputo, Mozambique

Probably even better than the Cape Town at night video by adi three leaf is the 6 min video by Adriaan Louw and Sam Clark (also uploaded by adi three leaf) about a trip of the adidas South Africa skateboard team to Mozambique's capital Maputo. The film shows Maputo from the skater's perspective, which is creating a completely different portrait of the city than usual. Kudos Adriaan Louw and Sam Clark, as well as skaters Pieter Retief, Jansen van Staden and Khulu Dlamini!

btw - also check out: Skateboarding film: The City of Johannesburg

Video: Cape Town at night with the adidas South Africa skateboard team

Ever thought about rolling through the streets of Cape Town at night? Well, the adidas South Africa skateboard team did it, filmed it and published it on the net. so enjoy a tour through the Mother City with a group of South Africa's finest skaters!
Kudos Khulu Dlamini, Jansen van Standen and Pieter Retief as well as adi three leaf for uploading the video!

btw - also check out:  Skateboarding film: The City of Johannesburg

Skateboarding film: The City of Johannesburg

A great city portrait, but not a usual one! It shows the City of Johannesburg from a skater's perspective. Kudos to the local skateboarding community as well as to Reporobait, a South African independent online resource for skateboarding related activities, for sharing the video!

City of Johannesburg from Reprobait Magazine on Vimeo.

If you want to know more about skateboarding in Johannesburg and South Africa, contact the dudes from Reporobait and/or check the map on their website.

Downhill skateboarding in South Africa - "Hot Heels 2011" (video)

If you like adrenalin rushs, speed and a good doze of crazyness you'll love this video. The annual dowhill skateboarding event "Hot Heels Africa" took place on 09-11 Dec 2011 on the tight two lane Buffelstal access road between Rooi Els and Pringle Bay in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, located approx. 60 km east of Cape Town. The course along the Buffelstal access road is about 1,9km long and the riders can reach a top spead of around 80km/h.
The event has been running since December 2003, so I reckon they will race down the Kogelberg road in 2012 again. Watch the following video and mark the date in your calendars - it does defo look like big fun!

The greatest skateboarding competition is coming to South Africa

update (17 Oct 2011): Round up of the Pro Street Finals from the Maloof Money Cup South Africa hosted in Kimberley.



The world's greatest skateboarding event, the Maloof Money Cup, is coming to South Africa and will be will be staged from 29 September to 02 October 2011 in Kimberley in the Northern Cape.
The  Maloof Money Cup, which was founded by Gavin and Joe Maloof, is the world's largest skateboarding competition in terms of prize money, with more than $450 000 up for grabs in various categories, and will therefore be attracting the world's best professional skateboarders to come to South Africa.



The event in Kimberley will be the first MMC in South Africa and the first one out of the United States. The specially build skate park and the vert ramp will later on be donated to the Kimberley municipality. Kudos!