The skateboarding for Hope Tour arrived at Mothibistad Sports Ground to an eager group of skaters and spectators. Several skaters traveled hours to Kuruman in hopes of earning the wildcard entry to the Maloof Money Cup Am in September.

The day started off with a skate clinic where Warrick Delport and Chinner with the help of Tumi Lyon, Jino Modise, and Moustache taught several kids how to skate. The top 25 kids that showed the most potential on a skateboard were awarded with a free Element complete!

The first skate competition of the day was the “Cash for Tricks” jam, where the judges awarded R100 to each rad trick that they saw during the 15 minute jam session. Thoriso Gaobuse aka “Steeze Magoo” came up on a few hundred Rand with tricks like kickflip back tails and feebles down the rail. Olorato also earned a few hundred Rand with insane tricks like varial heel back lip on the flat bar. Fan favorite “Mystery Man”, skated the contest in all black clothes, a ski mask, and sunglasses! Mystery man pulled a back lip down the rail and earned R100. Mothusi Nobela also earned a few hundred Rand with tricks like nollie shuv 5-0 on the box.

The first best trick skate jam featured rad skating from more skaters including Gerhard Botha and Marvin Matthews alongside crowd favorite Mystery Man, Steeze Magoo, Olorato, and Mothusi, just to name a few. Mothusi secured 1st place and R900 with a noseslide on the bank from flat along with a few other hammers, Olorato ripped it up and got 2nd place and R600 with tricks like a boardslide up the rail, Thoriso aka Steeze Magoo did a kickflip back tail to fakie on the box first try, earning him R400 and 3rd place.

With the second best trick jam about to start, it was anybody’s game. Mystery man aka Private Number skated super hard the whole day and pulled a crook shuv out on the box, but not enough to place. Gerhard Botha was stepping it up and earned 3rd place and R400 with a 50-50 down the rail along with a few other tricks. First and second place from jam #1 switched seats this round, Olorato knew he had to step it up and put the flat bar on top of the wedge and boardslid it and noseslid it, earning him 1st place and R900 in jam 2. Mothusi did nollie shuv manny and nose manny shuv on the big box, earning him 2nd place and R600 in jam 2.

It was a tough decision, but at the end of the day, Mothusi Nobela took home the wildcard entry for the Maloof Money Cup Am. Mothusi will be representing Kuruman during the Maloof Money Cup Am contest September 28-30!

Congrats to Mothusi and thank you to Peter McKuchane and everybody at Northern Cape Tourism and Boogaloos for their help! Thanks to all the Kuruman skaters who came out and ripped the course and all the kids who received skateboards!