Dyl's Blog: Archive

Let the games beginnnnn!

Yesterday the competition kicked off and first up from team south Africa for the contest was of course yours truly! The Jnr. Men Division started off at 10.15 in the morning and had 8 heats of 5 riders each. With Ryan Durham in heat 7 and me in heat 5. Everybody killed it. I managed to stomp a few tricks in my run which included a kgb, moby dick and a big worm in order to secure a second place in...

Jul 14th

Jul 12th

LSN Wakeboard School

Today we spent the day riding at the LSN school of wakeboarding which is about 1 and a half hours drive from the competition site. We started the day off nice and early at 7:00 where we had a buffet breakfast in the hotel dinning room. I must say the meals here are fregging awesome. Last night we had an assortment of meats and salads to choose from and this morning there were plenty rolls, cereals...

Jul 11th

Journey is over!

So after a 2 hour flight to Johannesburg, a 13 hour flight to Amsterdam and a 2 hour flight to Milan, we are finally here. All in all it was a sick trip with lots of laughs and memorable experiences. We all left our freezing homeland in long pants and our team tracksuits, which turned out to be a pretty dumbass idea when we got here. We jumped out of the plane straight into a nice humid 32...

Jul 11th

Jul 7th

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A little Wakeskate edit i finished the other day. watch eeet!

Jul 7th

Wakeboard Worlds

So… in two days I hop on a plane to Johannesburg international at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, land there at 7 pm where i hook up with the rest of the South African Wakeboard Team at the Keg in Joburg International airport (aka O.R. Thambo). After that we all catch a flight at 24:00 hrs to Amsterdam international, where we have to wait a bit until we finally fly into Linate...

Jul 7th

Jun 21st

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Sorry it’s been a while since I uploaded or shared anything. But here is a little edit from some footage i could round up of this summers riding. enjoy!

Jun 12th

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Apr 12th

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a little edit i made of a wakeskate competition we had here a couple weekends back! it was fun. the overall placings were: Dylan Mitchell 1st Matt Buys 2nd Felix Gruter 3rd

Apr 6th

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a video my buddy Dale Nieustad took of my first 900 off the wake.

Feb 21st

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Matt and I went on a little road trip down the south coast of Durban at the beginning of the holiday and this is what popped out of it. it was such much fun. a big thank you to: Jonathan Channing for organizing and being a legend. Dorin Bambus for putting up with our spooning. Andrew Bourne for letting us hitch rides everywhere. Devon Nassif for letting us dos at his place. Rob Hughes for...

Jan 24th

Knysna!

Right now I’m sitting in the car,(have been for a long time and still will be for at least a couple of hours) on my way to sedgfield at an earcracking, jaw dropping speed of 80 km/h. I thought this could take a while so I thought I’d just get started on this article instead of procrastinate as usual. Last week was awesome experience wise, I wish I could say the same for the wakeboarding… I...

Dec 19th

SESSIONS!

so the free ride event of the year is finally here again and will be taking place from the 15th-16th of December Sessions 09 was a sick event with all the top riders of the country just riding (thats right, not competing) the cool thing about sessions was, that everyone gets to just have a session on the rail and behind the boat and at the end of the weekend all of us riders got to vote for a...

Dec 7th

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the latest video of my buddy Dale Nieuwstad and I having a little session at MAC this past weekend. Dale didn’t have the nicest water, so his set was cut short, BUT that didn’t stop him from smashing a solid line!! enjoy

Dec 7th

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a vid i put together of me wakeskating at my farm which is pretty much wakeskate heaven. filmed by my Sister and Dale enjoy

Dec 7th

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a lil compilation of last season’s footage.. check it out!

Dec 7th

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hey guys here is a video i put together for Skullcandy South Africa’s wakeboard and wakeskate team. i hope you guys dig it! Dyl

Nov 1st

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dale and me missioned through to his farm a couple weeks ago, here is the vid. hope you guys enjoy

Oct 31st

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tried trick skiing the other day with dale for a laugh and this was the product! haha.. loads of funnn!

Oct 14th

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here’s a lil vid my buddy dale edited. he’s got a really sick set up about 40 min out of cape town that he shreds. here he is putting it to good use. enjoy

Oct 7th

Sep 21st

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sooooo.. the next couple of days will see a flood of vids on here.. (hopefully.. probably depending on how much work my maths teacher chooses on giving me in the next 2 weeks) here’s a video of Shaun i made when we went to Durban in the holidays to try shake off the winter rust. my vid is soon to follow. enjoy

Sep 13th

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its been a long time since i’ve uploaded a video. its been cold in the cape and the rest of south africa, so the most of us have been in hibernation. but nevertheless,a couple of weeks ago my buddy Dale and me made a mission to get to our local cable park for a nice icy winter ride. it was a cold very windy day, with only the last corner being flat, but we had fun.. we only got a little...

Jul 9th

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here is a vid of Nick-burton Moore and me a month back, riding behind his new X-star at Misverstand. enjoy.

May 6th

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it’s been a while! here’s a vid of Matti and me at base 3 in joburg.

May 3rd

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hey guys. sorry its been a while. anyways here is a video of a little sesh a couple of days back. just fun and good times. Dyl

Mar 15th

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Matti Buys is one of South Africa’s best. this video probably captures 1 20th of his riding capabilities, because it was shot in one set and 15 minutes at the cable in midrand. check it out!! Dyl

Feb 22nd

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A Vid of Devon Nassif Shredding some rails in South Africa. Hope you guys dig it. Dyl

Feb 20th

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Wats up guys! here is a little Vid i edited a while ago of the the first day i got to ride my RONIX at the cable park in Midrand. when i was taying with Devon Nassif. Shot Dean and Craig! hope you guys dig it.

Feb 10th

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Matti and Me at the pro tour stop on the 22nd of Jan. take a look at the runs..matti had that kickflip down the whole weekend! Dyl

Feb 3rd

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MR. JONES .. Ryde decided he should just smash this trick for the first time in his life, in the finals of the Jnr Men division . enjoy D

Jan 31st

WAKESKATING!

Its about dam time i get a Vid on here of some Wakeskating in SA. I’m busy working on a section of Matti Buys, but i should have a quick clip of our runs at Ski world coming soon! as well as Rydes S-Bend off the Wake. Later. D

Jan 28th

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This is a vid of Liquid Force rider Justin Selby sticking a sick Suicide Blind judge on an evening session at the Base 3 Cable in Midrand, Johannesburg. Enjoy! Dyl

Jan 27th

Lowdown

Wats up guys!! Just got back to Cape Town from a sick weekend in Benoni at the 1st Liquid Force pro tour stop. I arrived in Johannesburg on Friday and then was lucky enough to catch a lift to the cable to ride with Nick Davies, Devon Nassif, Cameron graham, Tyler Scott and Ryan Durham Nick is a machine.. he pretty much did everything that session from Pete rose 540’s to 9+180’s, it was crazy...

Jan 26th

LIQUID FORCE PRO WAKEBOARD TOUR STOP 1

wats up guys! its been a while since my last post, but i will have some more stuff coming soon. This weekend is the 1st Pro Wakeboard Tour Stop of the Season and it would be sick if all of you guys could come down to Ski World in Benoni to check it out! It should be a pretty sick Comp!! I will be there with my Camera ;) later Dyl

Jan 19th

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Shaun Faccio slamming a big slim 5 (one of the hammers he has under his belt) hope you guys enjoy.. new footy comming soon.. Dyl

Jan 8th

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Wats up guys.. Just got back from being on holiday with my family and finished of my first proper video of Justin Mitri and Asher Nassif.. hope you guys dig it.. Dyl

Jan 2nd

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small clip of bails

Dec 21st

Dec 20th

Johannesburg!

wats up guys! Just got back from sessions ‘09. it was a pretty sick weekend with some miserable weather, but guys were still killing it on everything.. Shaun Faccio took home the best wake session prize at the end of the weekend sticking a 9 and a couple other hammers in his session. Devon James Nassif killed it on the rails and managed to take down Bryan Loggenberg in the rail riding...

Dec 9th

Sessions

whats up guys.. I’m heading up to Durban tomorrow for a free ride contest thats happening on the weekend called sessions. it should be a fun comp with some invited riders and a sick venue.. you can check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174106428854&ref=ts I’m bringing my camera along, so hopefully I’ll get some footy and a couple pics to show you guys...

Dec 3rd

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this is a vid of me from a few weeks ago… lots of vids to follow this one soon.. ;) later Dyl

Dec 2nd

1ST POST!!

Hey Guys! just wanted to let you all know what this blog is basically gonna be about… i want to make a blog that will let everyone know whats happening in the South African Wakeboard scene and my life wakeboarding and wakeskating.. its mainly going to be a media blog with photos and videos with regular updates,but we’ll have to see how it goes.. can’t wait to start...

Dec 1st