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JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA: DAY 13 -15
A group of skateboarders from Germany and South Africa made an unusual and long journey through the country. Together with Revolution, they collected boards, shoes and clothing to hand-out to kids within the poorer areas between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Fourteen days of driving and over 4000 km with Justus Kotzé, Niklas Speer von Cappeln, Louis Taubert, photographers Andrea de Souto and Sam Clark. Cinematographer Lucas Fiederling documented the journey, the countryside and of course the skateboarding…
Day 13: After enyoing a really nice breakfast with the crew and family we left for our next destination, Soweto.
Niklas and Justus giving some skate-lessons to the kids in Soweto.
And if they couldn’t follow the Lessons, they would skate in their own style.
Day 14: The long road back to Cape Town. Driving through the desert.
And driving at night.
Funny self made Volcom Sticker
Day 15: Still driving through the desert. Never forget to stay BIRDSNAKE!
An exhausted crew. It was a really cool trip with lots of experiences and good times. We can say we saw “The World In One Country”. Special thanks to Revolution for making it happen!
We’ll be recapping all the action from the Journey Through South Africa tomorrow, so make sure you drop in. If you missed the previous installments you can check them out here, here, here aaaaannnnnnd here.
JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA: DAY 10-12
A group of skateboarders from Germany and South Africa made an unusual and long journey through the country. Together with Revolution, they collected boards, shoes and clothing to hand-out to kids within the poorer areas between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Fourteen days of driving and over 4000 km with Justus Kotzé, Niklas Speer von Cappeln, Louis Taubert, photographers Andrea de Souto and Sam Clark. Cinematographer Lucas Fiederling documented the journey, the countryside and of course the skateboarding…
Day 10: Our next stop was the Indigo Skatecamp. We didn’t know that Indigo is such an amazing place to hang out. All the locals where really nice, helped us out with what we need and braaied like champs!
The view from far.
Local kid skating the steep ass pool
We were lucky to leave to Pretoria with wheels.
Day 11: From Durban we went straight to Pretoria. Capturing Lucas…
…and with all the other Birdsnakes on the road.
We finally got to Pretoria. A pretty long drive. But we had a really nice place to stay at Hartmut’s. (A German skater who lives in Pretoria). A cool studio with coaches, some beds and a mini ramp.
Day 12: We woke up the next morning to the sound of Hartmut’s house-alarm going off. 5 guys broke into the house, luckily not in the studio, but unfortunately in our car. Andreas equipment, Hartmut’s house and car keys and laptops got stolen. REALLY SHIT! But at least everyone was safe, because Hartmut’s father saw the guys running away with guns…The only thing you can do after such an experience is to go skate! And thats what we did. Louis feeble pop out.
Niklas filming a line with Lucas.
Drop in tomorrow for more action from the Journey Through South Africa! If you missed the previous installments you can check them out here, here and here.
JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA: DAY 7 – 9
A group of skateboarders from Germany and South Africa made an unusual and long journey through the country. Together with Revolution, they collected boards, shoes and clothing to hand-out to kids within the poorer areas between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Fourteen days of driving and over 4000 km with Justus Kotzé, Niklas Speer von Cappeln, Louis Taubert, photographers Andrea de Souto and Sam Clark. Cinematographer Lucas Fiederling documented the journey, the countryside and of course the skateboarding…
Day 7: Coffee Bay. The Rain didn’t want us to leave Coffee Bay.
Sam chilling with a new friend.
So everyone decided to stay another night and enjoy a really good party!
The Justus show.
Day 8: Staying another night was definitely a good choice. We wouldn’t have made it, because the roads had been flooded.
Louis enjoying sleeping with his pillow.
Before the Birdsnakes…
…and the Nikdeer hit the road to Durban.
Day 9: Durban!
We arrived safely!
Even though Justus wasn’t keen to drive anymore.
We had a fun skate at Durban’s beachfront skatepark. Switching jobs – while cinematographer Lucas and photographer Sam kill the transitions.
Be sure to check back tomorrow for more action and photos from The Journey Through South Africa…If you missed Day 1 to 3, you can check it out here and you can see the action from Days 4 to 6 over here.
JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA: DAY 4 – 6
A group of skateboarders from Germany and South Africa made an unusual and long journey through the country. Together with Revolution, they collected boards, shoes and clothing to hand-out to kids within the poorer areas between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Fourteen days of driving and over 4000 km with Justus Kotzé, Niklas Speer von Cappeln, Louis Taubert, photographers Andrea de Souto and Sam Clark. Cinematographer Lucas Fiederling documented the journey, the countryside and of course the skateboarding…
Day 4: Leaving to Jeffrey’s Bay…Lucas being stoked on ostriches. Probably a German thing.
Niklas and Lucas on a bridge. Crazy thing was, Niklas sat on the edge of the bridge 5 minutes later!
An exhausted crew after a long day of driving!
Day 5: Jeffreys Bay is definitely a different thing to all the places we’ve seen so far. A surfer’s paradise, bars and a really nice campsite on the beach.
Louis saw a snake on the beach. Looked quite funny because it was a bird. BIRDSNAKE!
…after skating the kickerspot, Niklas did the craziest downhill line we’ve seen!
Our Successful day in Jeffreys Bay ended with a ditch session. Louis with a FS Flip. Stay Birdsnake!
Day 6: On our way to the Transkei. A long day of driving awaited us…
…shitty roads, animals on the streets and gnarly Taxi Drivers.
…on the road, waiting for (TLL) Time-lapsing Lucas.
BOMVU! Props to the drivers for bringing us safely to Coffee Bay
Be sure to check back tomorrow for more action and photos from The Journey Through South Africa…If you missed Day 1 to 3, you can check it out here.
JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA: DAY 1 – 3
A group of skateboarders from Germany and South Africa made an unusual and long journey through the country. Together with Revolution, they collected boards, shoes and clothing to hand-out to kids within the poorer areas between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Fourteen days of driving and over 4000 km with Justus Kotzé, Niklas Speer von Cappeln, Louis Taubert, photographers Andrea de Souto and Sam Clark. Cinematographer Lucas Fiederling documented the journey, the countryside and of course the skateboarding…
Scottsdean crew.
This little dude gets some help from Niklas.
Justus and Louis giving some skate lessons… not too easy!
Justus and the van. The plan was to drive as far as we can…We didn’t make it too far, but it was definitely a good day of skating.
First stop, Somerset West. Not even an half an hour away from Cape Town.
Niklas backtailing it in Caledon.
No one really knew that Mosselbay is such a good place to skate. We got stuck and spent the whole day skating rad spots over there….After a whole day of skating everyone was pretty mellow. we built up the tent and had a really funny night.
Be sure to check back tomorrow for more action and photos from The Journey Through South Africa…
JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA: LAUNCHING TOMORROW
From tomorrow, we will be running a series of photo-blog posts following Germany’s Louis Taubert and Niklas Speer Von Cappeln as they take on a journey through South Africa along with Justus Kotze representing the host-country. Throw in the super-talented Sam Clark and Andrea de Souto behind the lens’ you know its going to be good – so make sure you click -in tomorrow for the first 3 days of the Journey Through South Africa…
AV13 – SUMMER 2011 TRAILER
The new issue of AV is almost here! Issue 13 looks to super super rad with features including the Quiksilver Backyard Burnout, a trip up to Polokwane, the Fallen South Africa Tour, a Justus Kotze Close Up feature, the Maloof Money Cup as well as heaps more rad stuff! The full length Foundation WTF is on the bonus section too. Don’t miss out – check out the full list of stockists right over here.
SHARE THE STOKE THIS XMAS
This December the Journey Through South Africa Tour will be going through Cape Town, Durban and Joburg distributing new and used skate stuff to kids who can’t afford their own. The tour features German skateboarders Louis Taubert and Niklas Speer von Cappein as well as local ripper Justus Kotze.
“Louis Taubert is undoubtedly one of the best skaters in Germany this year and could win almost every contest in which he participated. And he has carved out on the thick banger bus tour and was generally represented with the best footage ever. In the next time it could be somewhat quiet at Louis, as he sets out to explore South Africa for six months. But of course he does not disappear without saying goodbye to yet befitting. Here is his farewell clip from Cologne Cape is 686 plus a few words to his adopted country.” The google-translated version of Louis’ farewell the blurb from skateboard magazine. In January we will be running a full Tour Diary right here on www.revolution-daily.com where you can see who got what and how the goodness was shared across South Africa. They’ll be hitting up skateparks in each town and need your help to share the stoke and get a ton of kids skating. Revolution has setup drop-off depots at all the stores around the country and are taking in boards, trucks, wheels, shoes… whatever you’ve got to give. Revolution Long Street, Cape Town
Revolution Skatepark Pavilion, Durban
Revolution Skatepark Festival Mall, Joburg
Revolution Cresta, Joburg
Revolution Menlyn, Pretoria
OVERBERG ADVENTURE WRAP-UP
We are wrapping up the Overberg Adventure today with round up of the 4 days spent on the road.
Day 1 saw the dudes hitting Caledon…
…finding some rad spots and making some interesting friends at the bar.
After a bit of hairy start to Day 2 in the Botanical gardens…
…it was on to Bredasdorp, where some hammers where thrown, lines filmed and spots discovered
Day 3 saw things heating up…
…especially in this very nice looking ditch that presented itself to the crew.
On the fourth and final day, the boys headed back to Cape Town, stopping off in Caledon again…
There is so much more to find out there than what we have seen in the Magazines and Videos over the past years.
…to finish off some business before getting back to the City.
A big shout out again to KFD Skateboards and Red Bull for making this trip happen.
Look out for the footage from the trip in the upcoming Session and AV DVD’s.
OVERBERG ADVENTURE DAY 4
With the help of Red Bull and KFD Skateboards, Justus Kotze, Moses Adams, Jamie O’Brien and myself (Sam Clark) decided to head out in search of new spots in undocumented towns with the purpose of getting footage for Justus’ Close Up article in AV13 and Mosey’s section in the upcoming Session dvd.
Day Four saw us packing up camp and heading home to Cape Town
but not without another few hours in Caledon to take care of some un-finished business and some more spot searching.
We would like to thank Redbull and KFD again for supporting us on this mission
and urge companies in South Africa to get behind their riders and help them do similar missions to smaller towns around South Africa.
There is so much more to find out there than what we have seen in the Magazines and Videos over the past years.
Keep Rolling!
