{"id":2710,"date":"2011-06-26T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2011-06-26T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T08:01:59","slug":"kanya-spani-goes-into-todays-skateboard-compo-as-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kanya-spani-goes-into-todays-skateboard-compo-as-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanya Spani Goes Into Todays Skateboard Compo as Favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanya Spani of Sandown won the Saturday 25 June qualifier for Red Bull Manny Mania 2011 at the Revolution Skate Park in Kempton Park, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Johannesburg\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-26.2044444444,28.0455555556&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=-26.2044444444,28.0455555556%20%28Johannesburg%29&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\">Johannesburg<\/a>.  He and 3 other qualifiers will compete on Sunday in the South Africa finals of Red Bull Manny Mania, the largest international event for amateur manual skaters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel really stoked about winning. It was unexpected, so I\u2019m really stoked. I&#8217;m a little nervous about the final, but I know most of the skaters so it&#8217;s going to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From 32 competitors at the event, the three other skaters selected to compete in the final include: Anthony Monalonca, Dada Marumo and Michael Bervoets.<\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg qualifiers will skate against 9 other qualifiers including Keiran Mans, Moses Adams and Zuhandre Yslie from the Western Cape, Gareth Sierra, Damon de Clercq and Mark Stoutjesdyk from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Eastern Cape\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Cape\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Cape<\/a> and Dlamini Dlamini, Khule Ngubaneand and George Van Blerk from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"KwaZulu-Natal\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kwazulunatal.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kwa-Zulu Natal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the national final on 26 June will be flown to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York City\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> on an all expenses paid trip to represent South Africa at the Red Bull Manny Mania World Final for amateurs on 20 August 2011. The winner of this event will get a chance to step into the big leagues by competing in the invite-only Red Bull Manny Mania Pro Event, on Sunday 21 August in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2711\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2711\" title=\"Kanya Spani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johannesburg winner, Kanya Spani of Sandown. Image: Red Bull Media House \/ Tyrone Bradley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jbaynews.com\/2011\/06\/08\/top-skateboard-event-in-jbay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Skateboard event in J&#8217;Bay<\/a> (jbaynews.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=bccfbcfd-ea43-4c42-8ed9-72c854062b64\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanya Spani of Sandown won the Saturday 25 June qualifier for Red Bull Manny Mania 2011 at the Revolution Skate Park in Kempton Park, Johannesburg. He and 3 other qualifiers will compete on Sunday in the South Africa finals of Red Bull Manny Mania, the largest international event for amateur manual skaters. \u201cI feel really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1069,1070,934,996],"class_list":{"0":"post-2710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-kanya-spani","9":"tag-manny-mania","10":"tag-red-bull","11":"tag-skateboarding","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kanya_Spani.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}