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I've been selected to represent South Africa at the 2024 ISA World Longboarding Championships in El Salvador, but I need your help getting there!

I spent the first part of my life being dragged by my father to various longboarding competitions around the Cape Peninsula. I would enter these competitions just because it was better than hanging on the beach in the wind and sand.

After university I got a job at Billabong in J-Bay and because I had no friends I spent the majority of my lonely free time at Lower Point trying to hit the nose. It wasn’t my aim to be pro or anything, I just needed something to do. But that year at SA Champs I surprised myself and made a few heats.

Fast forward to 2023 when I decided that I would, just for once, really apply myself and try to make the South African team. I longboarded more, worked on my surfing a bit and earned a second place at the 2023 South African Championships.

As a result, I’ve been invited to take part in the 2024 ISA Longboarding World Championships in El Salvador from the 18th - 25th of April.

I feel incredibly proud to be able to represent South Africa on an international stage and I’ll work hard to do the best I possibly can, but I need your help getting there. 

Between flights, board travel fees, equipment and accommodation, the expenses of getting to El Salvador are exorbitant but I know that I can rely on my community to back me.

I thank you in advance for your prayers, donations & messages of encouragement.

Love, 

Marishka

Image Credit: Tim Moolman

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