Here is the race report on the Fair Cape Downhill challenge that went down in Durbanville, Western Cape on 16 and 17 April 2011. Written by SAGRAs Justin Boast. Click here for the original article. Day one started out with a good turn out of riders with some new faces and the usual. Riders from Joburg and East London came down to race Fair Cape. On Saturday there was an  [ Read More ]

Check out the story written by Lloyd Clark here: http://www.runridedive.com/downhill-skateboarding.html Here are some photos by Riaan Swanepoel that we sent to Run Ride Dive for the article:

ENTRANCE IS ABSOLUTELY FREE Date: Wednesday 20 April 2011 Time: 19:30 Location: Jaded Ink – The Home of Jaded Tattoos CC, The Buzz Centre Click here for a map The world’s most highly anticipated Downhill Skateboard DVD is in South Africa. First Nature invites you to a preview of the DVD and an opportunity to own it for yourself on standard DVD and Blu Ray. The venue is the headquarters  [ Read More ]

Thanks to Raoul van den Berg for this write up:   On the second of April we hosted the first ever Loaded SA Slide Jam. It was held in Stellenbosch, pretty much the capital of Longboarding in South Africa at the moment. We have this little hill in the Industrial area, a quiet dead end road that is at most 300m long, but is extremely steep and slippery. Perfect for sliding  [ Read More ]

We have some new products to add to our already extensive line-up! First Nature is now an autorised retailer of Loaded Carving Systems and Orangatang Wheels. As seen in Loaded’s boundary pushing videos, you too can now be the owner of one of the funkiest board and wheel brands in the world.

Written by Massimo Bastiotto First Nature had a chat with Donovan Tome, winner of the First Timer Award at the High Rising Downhill Xtreme, his story begins like a lot of skaters in the downhill community; with street skating, although Donovan preferred the vert aspect of the sport. One day, he walked into a pawn store where he spotted a longboard for sale and the rest is history. In Donovan’s  [ Read More ]

First Nature is excited to announce the recruitment of Sam Jakins to the First Nature Race Squad. Sam is a 15 year old downhill skateboarder from Cape Town. He is hardly worthy of the grom title as he has been holding his own when it comes to races. Although Sam has only been riding for 1 year, he has already competed in 3 races, one of which being the internationally  [ Read More ]

Written by Gabi Murray-Roberts. On Thursday 31st of March the 2nd official “OUTLAWS” race was held. These races were originated by Stuart ’disco’ Barnard who described the race as an urge to satisfy the “fizz-lust” and he couldn’t be more accurate, ever since the first outlaw race down in Kirstenbosch and the High Rising Rising Downhill Xtreme fresh in their memories, the guys have been fizzing badly for another “OUTLAWS”  [ Read More ]

First Nature’s Massimo Bastiotto shares his views on the downhill skateboard scene in an article in the adventure sport magazine, Do It Now. Check out the article and what the magazine is about at doitnow.co.za

Just over one year since First Nature came to life, we are excited to announce the launch of our brand new website, www.firstnature.be/awesome. Some of you might have wondered why firstnature.”BE” in the website and e-mail address. Are we a company from Belgium? The answer is no. As you will see in our default URL, it will default to firstnature.be/awesome. This reflects our core value, Be Awesome. This is something  [ Read More ]