Monday. October 04.day 66

On the Garden Route...
Surf school from earlier this weekend!

We are closing in on our destination with a total of 1385 km’s under the belt leaving us with only 415km’s left to go!

We packed up this morning and made our way to the lovely town of Knysa. Cornell, Puddy and Human took the road on for the day’s session while Max and newcomer Jhono made ahead to hook up some accommodation.

The skating was beautiful. The Knysa and surrounding areas is probably the most aesthetically pleasing place n the country. Puddy encountered a hectic downhill on this stretch which scared him a little. None the less he took it head on reached an epic top speed of 52km/h.

Arriving in Knysa Max and co waxed sweet accommodation at the Island Vibe Backpackers.

31km skated for the day
50km/h top speed
Average 22 km/h
1385km total

Friday. 1 October. Day 63

BUNDGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Waking up was quite hard this morning as there was so much adrenaline in the air! Today was the big bungee day and every one anticipated this with some fear.

We made our way to the Bloukrans Bridge were we hooked up with Stefan again, He is the guy who hooked us up with Face Adrenaline.

Stefan brought his short boards with as he was going to join Puddy on the road for a session later that day. That and he wanted to Ollie into the bungee which, in the end didn't work out to well as he lost his board.

Pudddy the fearless was up next for the bungee. Afraid at first, he took it like a man and took his skateboard with him. Grabbing his board in a melon grab style he bungeeeeeeeeeeeeeed and is the first guy to do a grab with a skateboard from the Bloukrans bridge.

After the bungee we made out to the highway were Puddy was still to skateinto Plet. Stefan joined in but soon after had to retire due to some fatigue. Puddy kept pushing and we made a total of 25k’s for the day

We are looking forward to the weekend as there are some surf lessons arranged and some more demo skating to be done

Thanks to Stefan Bouwer and Face Adrenaline for making it all possible.

http://www.faceadrenalin.com/

Tuesday. September 14. Day 46.

On the road again...

Packed up and ready to hit the road we were stopped in our tracks as the van packed up! The coils had burned out. Luckily a local from the township took us to his back yard workshop where he sorted the problem tjop tjop for a very reasonable price.

We started on the marker of yesterday skating through Paterson on the way to Colchester. The road was pretty standard rough at times and smooth on others. Skated a total of 31km’s, an average of 20km/h with a 55km/h top speed. Currently on 1070 km’s in total for SKATE FOR CHANGE 2010.

We stopped at the farm gates of the owner who owns the gyro copter we filmed from leaving Bloem. He agreed that he will take Cornell up again to get some aerial shots.

After we completed the last 14km’s of the day we made our way to the Sundowners BB were we are staying free of charge for two nights. Had some lovely Burgers and had a team meeting.

We end the day on somewhat of a sad note as James will be departing from the tour tomorrow.