Evan Binge became the first local skateboarder to win a wildcard entry into the amateur contest at this year’s Maloof Money Cup skateboarding world championships.
Binge, who lives in Fourways in Johannesburg, pulled out all the stops and impressed the judges with his skills on the first stop of the Skateboarding for Hope tour at the Boogaloos Skate Park in Randburg.
This community outreach initiative is a joint collaboration between the Northern Cape provincial government and Maloof Skateboarding with the financial backing of Anglo American’s Kumba Iron Ore.
The roadshow promotes skateboarding as an easy, affordable and accessible sport in the run-up to the annual world championships event in Kimberley.
The Maloof Money Cup skateboarding world championships will be hosted in Kimberley in the Northern Cape in September and is widely considered to be the greatest skateboarding contest in the world and the only world championship event.
The three-day skateboarding extravaganza showcases the pinnacle in global and local skateboarding talent.
Over the next five months, the Skateboarding for Hope road show will travel throughout South Africa with retail partner Boogaloos to host skateboarding clinics, demonstrations and contests in key centres.
This year’s Skateboarding for Hope line-up will feature numerous activations nationwide outside of the Northern Cape, including three new large scale Grand Slam events in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg.
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