Duct Tape Comes to Cape Town

MIGNOT FOR MUIZIES: The best longboarders, including Lola Mignot, are heading to SA. Photo Vans

Marking its 10-year anniversary in 2022, the Vans Duct Tape event series gathers an international community of surfers, artists, and shapers, spotlighting talented longboarders globally with an emphasis on style and originality and shining a light on radical experimentation through unique surfboard shapers and their craft.

Hosted in the hub of Surfer’s Corner on Muizenberg beach — an iconic community where local surf culture is alive and thriving — the Duct Tape Invitational stop will welcome 32 longboarders to compete over the course of a three-day contest, featuring a women’s and men’s competition offering equal prize purses across each division.

The Vans Duct Tape Festival will also welcome Vans team riders Lee Ann Curren, Sam Partaix, Shane Sykes and Michael February as featured board shapers, each sharing their own hand-shaped custom surfboards with the public. The boards will then be donated to local communities through JUJU Surf Club - a non-profit organisation founded by Mikey and Zelti February.

SHAPING UP: Mikey February will be there with some boards he designed. Photo Alan van Gysen

A Vans Global Team rider, Mikey will also be releasing his first head-to-toe product collection with JUJU Surf Club and Vans in July. Beyond on-site shaping activations, the interactive event will provide plenty of opportunities to connect with local culture, including a Duct Tape Skate Jam, a beach clean-up, and a variety of workshops and on-site sustainability experiences.

In support of a diverse and inclusive surf environment, fans and spectators are encouraged to join Vans Duct Tape competitors and featured guest shapers in all the festivities, and to surf alongside these inspiring names. Five South Africans have been invited to participate: Steve Sawyer, Dean Simpson, Dylan Swindale and Sam Christianson for the men, and Crystal Hulett for the women.

Vans Duct Tape Festival will also include Duct Tape Invitational Competition, Duct Tape Festival: Community Market and Workshops, Live DJ Sets & Band Performances and a beach cleanup. Following Cape Town, the Vans Duct Tape Invitational and Surf Festival will host a stop in Huntington Beach, California, in August as part of the WSL’s 2022 World Longboard Tour.

Invitees

MEN
Justin Quintal
Kevin Skvarna
John Van Hohenstein
Stevie Sawyer
Tosh Tudor
Andy Nieblas
Rafael Nogalo
David Arganda
Josh Hocking
Sam Christianson
Jules Lepecheux
Saxon Wilson
Lahcen Aguerd
Ander Mendiguren
Dylan Swindale
Dean Simpson

WOMEN
Honolua Blomfield
Kelis Kaleopa’a
Hallie Rohr
Sierra Lerback
Lola Mignot
Karina Rozunko
Victoria Vergara
Zoé Grospiron
Rosie Jaffurs
Izzy Henshall
Crystal Hulett
Eliza Arbelbide
Ambre Victoire
Kirra Seale
Avalon Gall
Marina Carbonell

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