Baseline officially opened its new store on Kloof Street 1 May. We built the new store in just over a week, which meant a mammoth amount of work, late nights and beers.
People stepped in to help it along and extra thanks need to go to all Baseline staff, Justin Leslie, Pieter Retief, JJ Harris, Hughes and the rest.
Naturally we had a little bash to celebrate.
In the year that has passed since the first ‘Battle of the Benches’ we’ve constantly had people coming into the shop asking when the next one will be. Well we just did Battle of the Benches 2.
The guys over at Nebula have put together an awesome event happening at the Gugulethu Sports Complex.
“The objectives of the event is to introduce skateboarding to Gugulethu and to get support from the community to have a skatepark built at the Gugulethu Sports Complex.” Sounds good to me.
Baseline will be giving out some prizes at the event also check out the events details here.
If your’e interested in joining in on the fun here’s the registration page.
See you there!
So you know Mike Mo, right?
The dude started a sunglasses company with his brother called Glassy and now Baseline stocks them.
The list of team riders on this brand is longer than my arm with skaters like Sean Malto, Guy Mariano, Daewon Song, Cory Kennedy, Rick Howard, Stefan Janoski, Riley Hawk, Jaws, Brandon Biebel, Jeron Wilson, Nyjah Huston, Matt Miller, Jose Rojo, Kenny Anderson, Brian Anderson, Dan Drehobl, Mike Mo Capaldi, Mikey Taylor, Davis Torgerson, Mango, David Loy and Shawn Hale.
If you know us then you know we’ve got Nike SBs but not everyone can afford them so we’ve dropped the price on our Team Editions to R699 so that everybody can enjoy that SB freshness.
(Click on the shoe and check out our online store)
Nike SB Team Edition (gorge green/white/black)
Nike SB Team Edition (black/white)
Nike SB Team Edition (anthracite/field brown/sail/black)
We often go rolling around Cape Town after work, around town and into the suburbs to places like Claremont. Donovyn has a Canon film camera and is always shooting random pics. Here are a few of his skate-related photos. Check out Don’s blog to see more of his photos.
Khulu – Kickflip (Downtown)
December is always a wash with year end functions. From office parties in restaurants to ‘amazing race’ type events designed to boost employee satisfaction. We’re a skate shop so we weren’t about to have our Xmas party in just a random restaurant. We wanted to go skateboarding. We got the whole crew together at the shop after work on Saturday afternoon, piled into cars and drove up to Langebaan. The crew consisted of Adrian, Clint, Warwick, Donovyn, Luke, Khulu, Pieter, Justin, Darren and Loucas. Kanya was away on an Element trip and Yann was at some hippy festival so we subbed in Mark Donaldson and Joubert van Staden to keep the roster at 12.
Baseline is not just a retail shop, it’s a group of like-minded individuals who collectively form a skateboard family. We don’t just sell skate products, we cruise the streets of Cape Town together, go on trips and more often than not end up partying together after skateboarding. Owners, staff and team riders – Meet the Baseline family!
(Yann wasn’t in town the day we shot the photo but he comes through with a banger in the video!)
Our good friend and fellow shop rider, Loucas Polydorou took some pretty rad polaroids of the Baseline family on our year end party.
Go check out his tumblr for the rest of the polaroids and a bunch of other rad photos.
Keep and eye out for the next AV and Session for more evidence about our little weekend away in Langebaan.
Thursday, December 6 - The launch event for our new Element Installation
It’s no secret that we’re Independent truck people but if you’re going to ride anything else then there can only be one alternative. We now have Venture trucks and tees in-store. TX rides them, you can too!
All out trucks can be found on our online store.
The Funisu boys had their first tour and it was a banger!
A SESSION VIDEO BY JAMIE O’BRIEN. FREE IN ISSUE 51, IN STORES 17 DECEMBER 2012.
“Jamie O’Brien is one of South Africa’s top skate videographers. He’s spent the better part of 2 years skating and filming with Kanya Spani, Moses Adams, Jean-Marc Johannes, Dlamini Dlamini, Loucas Polydorou and Khulu Dlamini - six of South Africa’s most talented skateboarders. The result is Session Skateboarding Magazine’s first full length skate video – UNLIKELY.” – Session
Give them a follow on your relevant social medium: Facebook. Twitter. Instagram.
The DC – Africa REELedit contest has but one week to go. Three of our shop riders have edits in the mix. Have a look at these, give them some votes and help them through to the next round. The edits with the most votes go through to the judging round where one individual and their filmer/editor will split the R30 000 prize money. Click on the name of each rider below while logged into Facebook and vote for your favourite edit!
All you have to do is click the pic, enter and wait for the elimination rounds that start on the 3rd of December.
We’re taking part in another Cheap as Chips event at The Pit on the 30th and the 31st of November.
We’ll have a ton of stuff on sale including Nike SBs, WeSC, RVCA and a few other brands,
Don’t forget you get free chips with every purchase!
…thanks Wong for yet another awesome finger poppin’ drawing!
Session just turn 10 years old which is a big accomplishment for any magazine let alone a skate mag.
There are a ton of interviews from founder Brendan Body to Luke Jackson with his numerical collection of issues 1 – 50 and everyone else who hase been involved with the mag.
Come get your copy at the shop for only R34.95
Well done guys!
