Freestyle Kings LIVE – featuring double back flips, front flips, crashes and multiple world-first tricks – arrives in South Africa for the first time, scheduled for Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. Fans will see international freestyle motocross and BMX on their doorstep for the first time since 2017.
Freestyle Kings LIVE makes its South African debut at Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium on Saturday, 2 November at 6pm, followed by a 3pm event on Sunday, 3 November at Loftus Versveld in Pretoria and ending at DHL Stadium in Cape Town on 9 November at 6pm.
This tour brings together some of the biggest names in the sport, with American Ronnie Mac and Australian Robbie Maddison – the modern-day Evel Knievel – and FMX World Champions Rob Adelberg and Pat Bowden all in the line-up, and all enjoying their first visit to South Africa. These international visitors will be joined by local FMX hero Dallan Goldman.
Pushing the limits
Says Adelberg: “We all like to push the limits in everything we do and if we want to do something we just do it!” Madison, who has leapt, on his dirt bike, onto the top of the replica Arc De Triomphe in Las Vegas as well as modifying it to be able to realise his “Pipe Dream” – riding down the tube of a wave in the ocean – simplifies this worldview still further, saying, “Action is the antidote! We cannot wait, with the best action sports stars on the planet, to show South Africa what Freestyle Kings Live is all about.”
Bowden believes, as all top athletes do, that total commitment is needed to reach the heights they achieve. “I believe in ‘Full Sends Only’,” he says. “If you’re all in and committed to the successful outcome, then that’s a ‘full send’ – and that’s what life is all about.” And Goldman knows South Africa is a fantastic place to perform, saying, “I’ve been so lucky. My dirt bike has taken me all over the world over my 15-year career, but there is no better crowd to perform in front of than the South Africans. They are crazy for BMX and FMX, and they haven’t had a chance to see an international touring act in a long time. Freestyle Kings is a two-hour, non-stop night of thrills and spills for the whole family. We will sell you the whole seat, but you only need the edge!”
What: Freestyle Kings LIVE
Where and when: Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium on Saturday 2 November at 6pm | Loftus Versveld in Pretoria on Sunday 3 November at 3pm | DHL Stadium in Cape Town on 9 November at 6pm.
Tickets: www.showtime.co.za or www.ticketmaster.co.za
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