Christi Wiehahn, Back on the block
Christi Wiehahn is tough! After tragically losing his brother Inus to a car accident he himself almost died in a motorbike accident which nearly cost him his arm. After a long recovery period Christi is back on board and has just returned from a 3 month skate mission in Portugal.

JP Du Preez, Where is my mind
Every so often a skater comes along that you can tell just by watching him is going to be around for a long time. It's not about the tricks or the fads, what's in or out, but because he is an individual, has style, skates for the right reasons is always searching and always ripping that's jp du preez.

es Tour, The Great Escape
The European tour of the international E’s team was named « The Great E’scape » inreference to the famous film in which Steve McQueen and his accomplices organise a massive escape of the Stalag Luft II prisoner camp. An escape which ends up being quite unsuccessful.

Element Tour, One for one under the african sun
During the beginning of October we were set to welcome a team of travelers from TOMS shoes, and our colleagues from Element USA. It was the beginning of the Element’TOMS board and shoe drop. It’s been a year ’or more’ in the planning from our side and apparently 2 years.

Derik Du Toit, Rip
I knew a guy who never played by the rules, who never followed the crowd, and who never said no to a good time. This guy is our good friend Derik Du Toit. He is our friend because Derik was someone who made and kept friends where ever he went.

Leo Romero Interview
This interview was conducted by Steven Fröhlich at the Sole Technology offices in Europe.
Magazine editors and distributors from all corners of the globe including Session
bombarded Steven with questions to ask Leo.

48 Hours with the Dlamini Brothers
I don’t know if my time management’organising skills are up to shit or if the bad luck
god himself has chosen me as a prototype study for a while. What I do know is that the
two features I have shot for this mag have been uphill battles from the start.

DC, Relentless Progression
When Receiving an email from Andrew Morch at DC which included a poster for the annual
DC contest the first thing to smack me in the face was the
R30 000.00 PRIZE MONEY

Durban Invitational
Ok, so Mr. Body facebooks me on Tuesday afternoon, “Hey Gav, hope everything
is good with you, I was wondering if you could do us a favour and write a 1000
word thing on the DVS Invitational contest.

Tony Hawk, Under African Skies
When I started skating just the thought of a visiting pro would be like
walking with a prophet. Now Tony Hawk, isn’t he supposed to be one of the most
untouch-able skaters of all time? Tony Hawk made skating seem boundless.

Thabo Naga, Where is my mind
I started skating about 7 and a half years ago, my friend Kieren and some other
friends had boards so I would just try their boards out, and one day Kieren got
me my own board which was pretty messed up but thanks for that because I started skating ...

Eurovision, London Barcelona Basque in Reverse
The London skate scene has been a large point of interest for me over the past couple
of years or so. The skateboarding that has been documented coming out of that city
has been pretty incredible to say the least.

Justin Kotze, 48 Hours
I rolled up to the Fishoek Taxi rank at 3.30 pm on a CRISP winter friday
to hook up with Justus Kotze and friends.
Upon my arrival Justus asked me to help him move the grindbox INTO position.

Useless wooden toys, some resident rippers
This was supposed to be a Durban Metrospective article. It was going to showcase all the
new skaters as well as the bigger names of some resident rippers.
Having recently moved to Durban I was excited to get the opportunity to shoot...