After last weeks Cape Town launch (check it out here on reprobait.com or revolution-daily.com), Adidas launched their skateboarding range in Johannesburg today at the Revolution park in Festival Mall. We’ll be running a full bonus article covering both events in the upcoming AV 14 which will be out next month, but for now, here’s a sneak peak.
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Left: Pieter Retief from Adidas doing things right. Right: The mystery obstacle revealed.
Jamie O’Brien built the mystery obstacle in Cape Town which was then transported up to JHB for the event. Everyone got to session the new Adidas blue and white striped boxes are rail for the afternoon and then it was time to step up to the 1 hour long best trick contest. Even though 1 hour may sound like a lot of time to hammer out a best trick contest, dudes were hustling till the last minute to claim their go and put their tricks down. All in all a good day. Thanks to Adidas for all the free drinks, hot dogs and for building something new and leaving it there for dudes to skate. The rest is in the pics. Check out the full article in AV14 bonus.
The venue: Revolution, Festival Mall, Kepmpton Park.
The line up.
Adam Woolf nollie flips into a back lip (click image to enlarge).
Clockwise from top left: Maanda Mulaudzi and Khulu Dlamini - doubles, Leon Bester on hot dog duty, Joubert van Staden getting it down in HD for AV14, Best trick winner JP du Preez, Nico looking like Gav Scott, Marcels girls (click image to enlarge).
Pieter Retief, doubling it up with a 50 to nose grind (click image to enlarge).
MC Marcel Maassen - Redbull girls keeping him up.
Free Adidas stuff!
DJ Mama Mel keeping it real on the decks.
Dean Marais locking down a frontside blunt slide (click image to enlarge).
Clint van der Schyf relearning backside smiths on the sidelines for the millionth time (click image to enlarge).
This had to be one of the most stylish tricks of the day: Brendan Jack Dyamond steezing a back nose blunt across the box (click image to enlarge).
Anthony de Mendonca sitting on a nice backside tail slide and about to pretzel out (click image to enlarge).
