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 Lloyd Clark. Photos at the end. With 26 competitors in the open stand-up category, 7 in junior stand-up, 5 in street luge and 2 in Classic luge it is clear that the South African downhill family is growing faster now than ever before. It was awesome to see the stoke in the riders eyes every time they finished a run without crashing. Mad respect to all the riders  [ Read More ]

Alex Duss knocks Richard Dweza from his two year winning streak! But that’s just time trials. Looks like there is going to be some exciting racing on Sunday afternoon!  See the full gallery on Posterous

This weekend (26 & 27 February) marks the opening of the SAGRA National Championship 2011 as skaters from around the country make their way to Grabouw in the Western Cape to compete in the High Rising Downhill Xtreme. Spectators can expect to see some exciting racing and there will surely be a lot of crashes in the infamous carnage corner. First Nature will once again be sponsoring the First Timer  [ Read More ]