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Do you remember when the only coverage of IGSA racing in Concrete Wave was whatever the Silverfish guys sent to me or published in their column each issue? EBasil used to tell me over and over, "racing is the ultimate extension, put a speedboarder on the cover!" and I'd just smile, knowing he and Malakai would cover things on their own. As time passes and the infectious stoke you Silverfishers exude has had an effect on me, we've now put TWO speedboarders on our cover, to great acclaim by all types of skater and the feedback from the Silverfish coverage of 2007's Festival of Speed convinced me to give IGSA's Marcus Rietema his own column in Concrete Wave. -- M.Brooke, Publisher.
IGSA's Year End, 2008
To read and see more, click through to the full article.
Justin Boast always brings us some of the most epic event coverage on the 'fish and this time is no exception. Amazing downhill racing, stunning scenery, epic hill and a pack of arrogant baboons. What more could you ask for in a downhill competition.
HOT HEELS AFRICA 2008
Final IGSA World Cup Event of the Year
Pics taken by Sharon le Grange & Ben Malherbe
It's 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening and I'm trying to pack. We leave for the "bunker" in the Kogelberg Biosphere nature reserve tonight, and as always, there's too many things that still need to be done. T-shirts and race day information sheets still to print, boards, leathers, clothes, food and beer packed. By 11 everything's done and our convoy consisting of Anton Pratt, Richard Dweza, Ben Malherbe, Tibor Hery, Glen Phllips and myself hits the road. We arrive after midnight at the pitch-black bunker. The scene is erie, real horror movie stuff. The bunker's up in the middle of the Hottentots Holland mountain range, a South African Navy relic left from the old days when this area was used as a missile testing ground. There's no electricity or hot water, but we manage to find some candles for light and get a fire started. This'll be home for the next two nights. We unpack our gear and chill by the fire.
Comes now the heralded IGSA, reporting herein the Go Fast! Speed Days, '08, from jolly old England.
Go Fast Speed Days '08
For the full text, read Concrete Wave magazine, Holiday '08 edition. Oh, you're too cheap to subscribe to the only mag that covers skateboard racing at all? It's too far to skate over to the only bookstore in your town that sells CW, so you can poach a view and then put it back with the pages stuck together? Well then, navigate thyself yonder to your gracious hosts' CW Downloads area and readyyour sorry ass to receive bequest of the article in PDF format. Being a cheapskate, you already know you can view it in hi-res with the free PDF viewer from Adobe, but we didn't need to tell you that.
Here's a collection of YouTube and/or other vids from around the web, all of the 2008 North American Championships racing at Bonelli Regional Park, in San Dimas, California.
Zak Maytum is IGSA North American Champion, TWICE!
TVAR with his sites on Flindt in the final corner.
They were fast all day, and it looked like the stoked and focused Jimmy Flindt, 2007 North American Champ, would battle it out with Dubester for the title, but Zak Maytum poured on the speed, slapped on some new wheels for the finals and showed a keen sense of strategy to win the IGSA North American Championship with a pass down the long straight to the finish after he chased the banzai Flindt through the dreaded right hander -- but carried more speed. It got down to maybe 3/4 of a board length at the finish line and both skaters were cheering as loud as the rest of the crowd after tearing their helmets off. 40 minutes later, TVAR did it again, winning the A-Main for the Junior Class as well, racking up dual Continental Championships to accompany his Junior World Championship from Maryhill!
I'm fresh back off the road, still coated in hay, grit, ash from the wildfires and whatever else I picked up during a 90-degree day at Bonelli. Photos and more to come...check the forums in the meantime and click into the folder in the Gallery-- 600+ photos from Saturday.
IGSA Coverage 
