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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Our main man Kanya Spani took first place in the South African amateur contest at the Maloof Money Cup. He won himself R8000 but the way he killed it, it should have been a bigger cheque (last year the winner got R20 000). Congrats bruv!
Baseline will be at Cheap as Chips today and tomorrow, it’s all happening at The Pit next to Clark’s on Bree Street…so get there!!
Tees from R150, denims from R400 and Familia decks for R200.
Read the flyer for more info.
There’s gonna be chips for everyone!
If you want to skate and be filmed by the guys from DC in order to put together your REELedit, then head down to the listed local park in your town. Get on it for your share of the R30 000 cash money!
For those of you out of the loop the 3 judges have now been revealed.
Judge #1 - Ruben Garcia
Judge #2 – Mikey Taylor
Judge #3 - Clint Van Der Schyf
Judge #4 – YOU!
We’re down for ladies who skate. Ladies get 20% off all skate hard goods today, we’re open til 3. No guys, don’t try bring your girlfriend in to buy for you, this one is for the ladies only!
Just look at Natalie rolling in Barcelona for example.
The Vans ‘Pit Party’ is going down on Friday September 7th in Cape Town. Reprobait are on the judging panel. If you’re in town, you know where all the skateboarders are going to be!
2 Man Team Battle Rules:
Each invited rider needs to pair up with another invited rider to form a 2 man team which you will have to come up with a team name for.Each 2 man team will go up against another 2 man team where each team will have 1.5 mins for their run. If that team falls or bails in said mins of their run they need to keep on going until their run time is up. You will only know which team you will be battling on the night. Each team will be drawing a number on the night.
…This is going to be sick so don’t miss it!
The Maloof Money Cup is headed to our shores again for the second year in their 3 year contract with South Africa. The staff didn’t get to go last year because…well, we had to work, but from the pictures and stories we heard, it looked and sounded like a blast!
To those of you going this year, Baseline says “Have a good time and represent!”
The Maloof website can be found here.
adidas are giving away a hamper to the lucky individual who can find this sticker (see below) somewhere on Long Street. If you can find it, take a picture and post it on our Facebook page! The hamper includes a free pair of stylish adidas shoes and more.
This Sticker!
This one!
Good hunting!
AV15 is almost here and as usual Baseline will be having and all ages premiere of the video in our DC Pop-Up Store upstairs on Saturday the 7th of July at 12pm. We’ll have Redbull, popcorn and a copy of the video for everyone that comes…there MAY even be some other really cool give aways 
Here’s the trailer to get you hyped…
It’s that time of the year again when you’re meant to go out and skate…but you should be skating EVERYDAY!
We’re running a couple of rad specials for the day. 20% off all skate hardgoods, that includes ALL our decks, ALL our wheels, ALL our trucks and more!
There’s a catch though, you have to bring in your board for the discount to count, so bring your board into town, come get some new shit and GO SKATE!
Red Bull Manny Mania 2012 went down in Durban over the weekend, Baseline family members Adrian and Luke were on the judging panel. Check out Tyrone Bradley’s pics from the event on the Red Bull site. Moses won the trip to NYC with Thalente in second and Zuhandre in third.
You can find more pics of the event over at the Redbull site
DC recently welcomed Nyjah Huston and Mike Mo Capaldi! They join the DC pro team which consists of Chris Cole, Mikey Taylor, Wes Kremer, Matt Miller, Danny Way, Colin McKay, Steve Berra, Josh Kalis, and Rob Dyrdek. Big things coming from DC Skateboarding in 2012.
Baseline and DC have joined forces and have set up an installation on our second floor with loads of rad DC product and videos for everyone to enjoy.
DC will also be premièring the Danny Way documentary, ‘Waiting For Lighting’ in the coming weeks, we’ll have all the info for you guys soon.
In the meantime, come check out what DC have setup in our store!
