Category: Skateboarding News

AV Skateboarding 29 Trailer

Check out the trailer for issue 29 of AV Skateboarding which will feature an article on the KDC African Tour through Swaziland, Mozambique, and Nelspruit that went down a few months back.

KDC & WSGP Announce Dates For 2016 Skateboarding For Hope Tour

WSGP & Kimberley Diamond Cup are stoked to announce the dates for the 2016 Skateboarding For Hope National Tour! Supported by DC Shoes Africa, the 2016 SFH Tour will be hitting 13 cities across South Africa and touching the lives of hundreds of underprivileged kids as we attempt to reach out to them with our motivational talks, skateboarding […]

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Skatepark Build

The good folks at Make Life Skate Life and Ethiopia Skate joined forces to bring to life Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s first skatepark: Addis Skatepark. A crowd-funded initiative, Addis Skatepark’s Indigogo campaign raised over $30,000 in one month for a public skatepark free for the community of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to enjoy. Over the last two weeks, volunteers from all over the […]

Epicly Palestine’d: The Story Of The Birth Of Skateboarding In The West Bank

The story of how a small group of teenagers created a skate scene from scratch in a place where you can’t even buy a skateboard, whilst facing the challenges of living under military occupation.  There’s a full feature here on The Berrics site with lots of photos and the story of how things came together, check […]

Kimberley Diamond Cup Midway Mayhem Recap

The 2nd KDC Grand Slam of the 2016 season went down at Midway Mayhem at the Kumba Skate Plaza and brought out several local skaters and bus fulls & car loads of skaters from around the country alike for another incredible weekend of skateboarding and camping. Check out the full post here via Kimberley Diamond […]

Road to Tokyo Documentary

Road to Tokyo is an introspective journey about the future of skateboarding. The story of a skateboard torch traveling from Spain to Japan, told through the eyes of skaters who support skateboarding becoming Olympic and some who don’t.

Skating Namibia In Search Of The Desert Diamond

RedBull took out  Philipp Schuster, Olli Ilmonen, Titi Gormit, Antony Lopez and Tjark Thielker out to Namibia to see what spots could be found in towns big and small alike. Watch the edit here via RedBull.

Skateboarding World Championships Scheduled for Oct. 3-8 in South Africa

Skateboarding World Championships Scheduled for Oct. 3-8 in South Africa Skateboarding’s biggest contest of the year is expected to draw more than 300 competitors from 60 countries (Los Angeles – May 25, 2016) World Skateboarding Grand Prix (WSGP) announced today the Skateboarding World Championships will return to Kimberley, South Africa October 3-8. Sanctioned by the World Skateboarding Federation, […]

Press Release: WSF Sanctions 10 National Championships in Africa, Introduces African Skateboarding Academy

LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – May 29, 2016) – Today the World Skateboarding Federation (WSF), in anticipation of skateboarding’s addition to the 2020 Olympics, announced the sanction of 10 national skateboarding championships across Africa as well as a groundbreaking Elite Training Program for top skateboarders in Africa. The WSF Elite Training Program, called the African Skateboarding Academy, […]