The Izmir Regional Qualifiers for the 2016 Turkish Skateboarding Championships went down at Democracy Park in the beautiful coastal city of Izmir on a blazing hot Saturday on 18 June, 2016. Over 30 skaters from Izmir and surrounding cities made it out in hopes of winning some cash prizes and snagging one of the top […]
We spent International Go Skateboarding Day with our friends in Istanbul, Turkey skating through the streets and ending the day off with a chill session at a nearby park. Check out some photos and video from the day here. See you this weekend at the Turkish Skateboarding Championships!
The African Skateboarding Championships is returning to the Skateboarding World Championships at Kimberley Diamond Cup for the second year in a row and has grown bigger and better as we’ve added national qualifier events for several select African countries and committed to covering travel expenses for the top skater in each African country outside of […]
As one of Kimberley Diamond Cup’s several skateboarding trips held around South Africa each year, KDC rounded up SA rippers Trae Rice, Alan Marola, Khule Ngubane, Anton Roux, Josh Chisholm, and Juan Smit to explore through the bottom right of Africa and see what spots they could find and skate in Swaziland, Mozambique, and South […]
The African Skateboarding Championships (ASC) Madagascar National Qualifiers went down this past weekend at Marais Masay Skatepark in Antananarivo, Madagascar in which Rabetsivalaka Radonirina won an all expenses paid trip to South Africa to compete in the African Skateboarding Championships at Kimberley Diamond Cup this October.
Madagascar ripper Tsiky Raharinaivo seems to have been getting around the globe over the last year and stacking clips. Check out this edit he put out recently for Akama Skate.
The KDC Grand Slam Durban Regional Qualifiers went down on 16-17 July, 2016 at Durban Beachfront Skatepark as a part of DBN X Fest. Durban’s top skaters made it out to the Beachfront park for their share of the R5ok prize purse and a spot in the KDC South African Championships, TopGrom South African Championships, […]
A little while back, Huck Magazine put together this rad short film documenting a snippet of the lives of the local children of Indigo Skate Camp, situated in the Zulu Village of The Valley of 1000 Hills in KZN. Watch the children of Indigo Youth Movement skate the park and even travel to Johannesburg for […]
The 2017 Skateboarding For Hope program kicked off with a bang at our first event of 2017 in Cape Town. These lucky youths were the recipient of brand new skateboards, courtesy of Tim McFerran and World Skateboard Federation. After these young skaters received their free skateboard, they then participated in a free clinic, a skate […]
The 2017 African Skateboarding Championships completed its second year in existence with perhaps its most competitive contest to date. The hotly contested contest was won by Rabetisivalaka Rado Nirina from Madagascar, while the second place was taken by El Mehdi Anys from Morocco. in Previous years this contest was held in Kimberley, South Africa but this year […]