Every weekend at the Kumba Skate Plaza in Kimberley, South Africa, we provide free skate lessons for the local skaters and community to enjoy. This weekend, we carried on with our Vert Fridays Clinic and Skate Lesson Sundays weekly skate lessons and allowed the kids to pad up and learn some skateboarding basics on […]
Every weekend we hold our weekly Vert Fridays skate clinic on either the mini ramp or the vert ramp and give the kids a chance to pad up and work on their transition skills. This week in particular we hit the mini ramp and were joined by a small but enthusiastic crew. Mvelo, Thabang, Wadu, […]
Many people out there in the world aren’t aware that after the some of world’s top pro skaters leave Kimberley each year following Kimberley Diamond Cup that the Kumba Skate Plaza is a hub of activity including skateboarding coaching clinics, competitions, and other activities to keep Kimberley youth busy and off the streets and away […]
Another blazing hot weekend at the Kumba Skate Plaza. That Kimberley sun is ruthless. We kicked off the weekend with a skate clinic on the mini ramp. We padded up and took care of some of the basics like pumping, kickturning, and a few basic tricks. The highlight of the session was definitely helping Tediso […]
Another top notch weekend at the plaza. We kicked Friday off with a vert clinic and contest on the vert ramp. Frontside kickturns can be a bit intimidating, especially if you learned them frontside initially. No fear that some prizes couldn’t help one overcome. Damian came out on top, as expected, but Shandene was in […]
The highlight of the weekend was definitely Saturday night’s “Bust Yo Self Down the Big 4” jam session. We had a deck, trucks, and wheels on the line for the top 3 tricks, so the kids were going all out. The illustrious “Big 4” can be quite a dangerous obstacle, so, luckily, no one got […]
We’ll keep this week’s write up this short and sweet. Friday led us to the Mini Ramp Jam, offering prizes for Beginners and Advanced Divisions. Saturday’s Best Trick Jam on the marble ledges brought forward a similar format, sans transition, substitute the ledges. The kids are shredding as hard as ever and 2014 is looking up. […]