Update from World Skateboarding / Kimberley Diamond Cup: Kumba Skate Plaza to Reopen Tomorrow, 8 October! As many of you know, WSGP has been working diligently in trying to get Northern Cape Provincial Government to fix the neglected transformers for almost two months now. Today we finally received an email from The Department of […]
Kumba Skate Plaza May Be Open In Time For The Weekend! We are hopeful that the Kumba Skate Plaza can be open by this weekend! WSGP is still waiting on Northern Cape Department of Economic Development & Tourism (DEDAT) to provide funding to fix transformers and make the facility safe to our local skaters and visitors […]
It’s been a cold and crazy past couple of weeks at the Kumba Skate Plaza! Schools have since gone back into session and our regulars are fiercely studying and scarce at the skatepark until the weekend comes. When the weekend does come, it’s on; and the kids are wasting no time progressing on their skateboards […]
It’s been a while since we’ve brought you anything from the Kumba Skate Plaza. Since Midway Mayhem, we’ve been continuing on with our free weekly skate clinics and events that hundreds participate in on a weekly basis. This past weekend we held the Game of Skate contest, a single elimination bracket-style flat ground tournament. We’ve […]
News 24 caught up with World Skateboarding President Tim McFerran about the state of skateboarding in South Africa and how the industry has grown in the last few years, largely as a result of the Kimberley Diamond Cup Skateboarding World Championships. News 24 also visits Mill St. Skatepark in Cape Town and speaks to local […]
Last year after Midway Mayhem, Khule Ngubane stayed a few extra days in Kimberley to skate his favorite park and spend time with the kids. While filming for a feature that never came to be, Khule put down a serious bit of skating in about 2 hours time. We finally dug up the footage and […]
Every weekend at the Kumba Skate Plaza, we have exciting activities for the youth of Kimberley and nearby townships. This weekend we had the Highest Ollie contest for the first time in 2016. It was good to see everyone putting in extra work on that pop. We had exciting prizes on the line, that was […]