{"id":20,"date":"2024-07-12T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wpzoom.com\/videobox\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:13:42","slug":"skating-south-africas-valley-of-a-thousand-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wpzoom.com\/videobox\/2024\/07\/12\/skating-south-africas-valley-of-a-thousand-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating South Africa\u2019s Valley of a Thousand Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Indigo skate camp is giving Isithumba&#8217;s very first generation of young skaters a deeper connection with each other and their divided country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An hours drive north west from the golden beaches of Durban, the land begins to rise into rolling, sun-baked ridges, packed with lush greenery: you know when you\u2019ve arrived at the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Push on further up the gently winding road and you\u2019ll come to Isithumba, a small village where life for young people will never be the same again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigoskatecamp.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigo Skate Camp<\/a> is helping to shape the village\u2019s very first generation of skaters, who are growing up with a vastly different outlook on life to their elders.Indigo was built by South African pro skater Dallas Oberholzer. There are other skate-for-development programmes around the country, but none are in such a rural and isolated location as Isithumba, in the Kwazulu-Natal region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside skateboarding, the programme teaches self-respect, health and safety, art and music; supports the kids\u2019 formal education and aims to tackle the disconnection of the area\u2019s young people from the&nbsp;rest of the country. Now 30-40 young Zulu villagers take part in the programme and their experience of skateboarding has created a more positive mindset and greater sense of togetherness. There\u2019s a stark contrast emerging between the kids who\u2019ve grown up with the park and the generation directly above them, whose isolation and lack of opportunities has left many unemployed and directionless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>Valley of a Thousand Hills<\/em>, we see Indigo coaches Mazwi and Charl take the kids \u2013 many of whom have never left the area before \u2013 to compete at Germiston Snake Run, just outside Johannesburg. In a country where relations between races can be fraught and different communities often lead totally separate lives outside the progressive metropolises, it\u2019s an opportunity for young people from vastly different backgrounds to come together. But are the Indigo crew\u2019s skills, honed in their rural skate paradise, up to taking on the kids from the big city?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigo skate camp is giving Isithumba&#8217;s very first generation of young skaters a deeper connection with each other and their divided country. An hours drive north west from the golden beaches of Durban, the land begins to rise into rolling, sun-baked ridges, packed with lush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary","tag-skateboard","post_format-post-format-video","wpz-has-embed-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/demo.wpzoom.com\/videobox\/files\/2016\/07\/maxresdefault-2.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Lnfq-k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5488,"url":"https:\/\/demo.wpzoom.com\/videobox\/2024\/07\/30\/the-physics-of-flip-tricks-skateology\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":0},"title":"The Physics of Flip Tricks","author":"Pavel Ciorici","date":"July 30, 2024","format":"video","excerpt":"Before this video, you probably thought you\u2019d never return to the study of motion past high school physics. 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