Skateboarding News, Events and Happenings in South Africa

	Volcom Stone's Wild in the park "Let the kids ride free" - Wave House, Durban - 12 December 2009 - Free Entry - Free Food - Loads of giveaways Collect your tokens from the Volcom Gateway store and register at wave house for free entry into the competition. Contest practice starts @ 1pm
	Quiksilver Bowlriders - Gateway Wavehouse - 6pm / Sat 3 October 09 - R16 000 Prize Money - Entry Enquiries: 031 313 1485 Presented by: Virgin Mobile & Resolution Health
	Element Skate Camp - Port Elizabeth. - 23th - 28th September - bookings close 10 sept - limited space available - ages 14 + for more info email: element@elementskateboards.co.za
	NSA Skateboarding presents the Buck Tour 2009. The annual buck tour is back and hitting skatelab in george. This event is the longest running event in south africa, where competitiors always have a rad time there is always happy spectators watching as the skateboarders do their thing. figure(ica) will host the "figure it out" best trick, where your skateboarding imagination will ultimately win the trick. Giving the spectators a chance to see some awesome moves. Also on offer are valuable NSA circuit points. What makes this event fun is the fact that it's also more like a road trip, bunch of people skateboarding, having a good time to hang out with friends and enjoying themselves for the weekend. There will also be an event web site for those who could not make it, so don't fear, on the day of the event and after, pictures and video highlights will be added, so you can see what went down that day. The event will take place in skatelab, george on the 25 july. Check out the event website for pictures and video highlights. Click here for the event website.
	IT’S OFFICIAL – DC announces the highly anticipated return of the DC SKATE CONTEST in association with RED BULL, XBOX & NIXON. After a year’s break, this year the event will be staged at Wavehouse’s newly revamped pro streetcourse which is rumored to become the best streetcourse across the country. RELENTLESS PROGRESSION is the theme, as the DC contests are renowned for providing the platform to push the boundaries of skateboarding in SA – and with 1st place prizemoney breaking the R10 000 mark and setting a new standard for SA skateboarding at R15 000 – that makes this the biggest prize purse in SA skateboarding history. Competitors will be traveling from all corners of the country to the event, and will be more determined than ever to try stake their claim of the prizemoney and valuable NSA circuit points. The RED BULL ‘gives you wings” highest air contest and NIXON “bring the noise” best trick contest will keep spectators enthralled while everybody awaits the final judging results. It’s going down on the 11th July – so make sure you don’t miss out on the action.

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DVS Durban Invitational

DVS is proud to Announce the DURBAN INVITATIONAL PRO/AM 2009,
Supported by ELEMENT, VON ZIPPER, SKULL CANDY and MONSTER.

Media Partner: Session Skateboarding Magazine

On the 3rd and 4th of July, the newly renovated [R]evolution Skatepark located at the Pavilion Shopping Centre in Westville will host the Durban Invitational Pro/Am.

See you there.

The Durban Invitational format is as follows. • A list of the countries most prominent sponsored riders will be compiled by the Judges and invited to the event. • On Friday the 3rd of July the competition will be open to advanced level riders who did not make it onto the invitee list. They will compete in a Skate Jam format and the top 5 riders will be pushed through to the finals on Saturday. • All invited riders and the top 5 from the previous day will compete in a jam format to get reduce the list to the top 10 riders, who will then all have 2 runs and the best run will count. • Scores will be announced after each round so that riders will know their position before skating their final rounds. • Cash prizes will be as follows.    1st – R 10 000.00,    2nd - R 5 000.00,    3rd – R 3 500.00,    4th – R 2 500.00,    5th – R 1 500.00 .    Best Trick R 2 500.00 • Entry Fee: R 50.00 , Spectator Fee: R 20.00 • Event runs from 10am till 6pm , both days.

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X-Jam

Skate On Saturday 2nd of May we arrived at the Tafelberg Tavern / Speedway Cafe for the 2nd annual X-Jam event presented by OLD SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS…
From the morning early there was a great turn out of Skateboarders and BMXers. And it looked like we had a super day ahead of us.
The Set up was awesome to say the least , looked sick and the riders were all Super Ampted to get unto the course and shread it, The day was officially a Skate comp with a section for the BMXers to do a show/Demo.

By about 14:00 we got the skateboarding underway. We started with the first part of the best trick sessions on the bench. This was a 15 min jam where a lot of tricks went down from K-grinds to kickflip backside tails. Soon after that we moved on to the wedge with the water- barrier. The guys were getting warmed up now and Puddy was busting backside flips and Willy Manilly (aka Will Twala) was busting nollie flips. After that we went straight in to the last jam on the grind box. By this time every one was giving it there all, wth halfcab nose grinds and verial flip 50 50’s going down.

Results:
Will Twala -1st
Puddy Zwennis and Kieran Mans that was tied for 2nd.

Thanx to all the sponsors for making this happen , we had an awesome time.
As well as MARKUS MUSELER from OSP-Events for putting on this awesome day again, This guy really does know what he doing when it comes to insane Action Sports events !! We all looking farward to the next event and see what this guy will come up with .

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