Adrenalin, BMX, Community, Creativity, Culture, Events, Girls Skating, Legends, Punk Rock, Skateboarding, Skateparks, Social Activism, Spots, Street Skateboarding
Park Spotlight: Thrashers Skate Park – An always-evolving skate park, creating space for community expression in the heart of Pretoria Deep beyond the boerewors curtain, crossing solidly into two-tone territory and skirting the edge of Blue Bull country, there’s...
Community, Creativity, Culture, Legends, Music, Punk Rock, Venues
The blunt mag Night Crawler Files: Fokof Bar and music venue, Pretoria The first in a series of reviews of popular South African alternative watering holes and music venues – starting with the infamous ‘Fokof Bar’ in Pretoria. By Micheal Bower. Photos by Robert...
Adrenalin, Archive, Bowl Skating, Community, Culture, Events, Legends, Skateparks, Social Activism
Bowl Resurrection: Bringing one of the concrete gems of South African skateboarding back to life – The Germiston Bowl. Digging into the blunt archive, The Germiston Bowl has witnessed some legendary sessions and comps. After years of neglect, a collective of old...
Community, Culture, Girls Skating, Legends, Skateboarding, Skateparks
Joburg’s The Skate School creates a safe space for little kids, girls and Mzansi’s LGBTQI skating youth OG SA skater Shayne Robinson’s Skate School in Joburg recently held its first gender-neutral skate comp and is encouraging more girls and LGBTQI youth to skate. By...
Community, Culture, Legends, Surfing
An Ode to Muizenberg – a journey through the shore break of South African surfing’s capital ‘The ‘Berg’ Muizenberg is where most surfers in Cape Town started surfing, and continues to be the epicentre of the sport in the city, even if the waves are pap and surfers...
Adrenalin, Archive, Bike, BMX, Community, Legends
From the blunt mag archive: Up Front and On Point – Buddy Chellan BMX profile blunt 9.3 Buddy’s always amped. Whenever he’s around, he’s down for whatever. If he’s on a mission with you, he kinda reminds me of a big dog on a leash, straining to get...
