Skater Khule lives his cool dream
PROFESSIONAL skateboarder Khule Nubange is a big dreamer.
“Through dreaming I created a reality that I wanted for myself growing up in Chesterville, skating first on the roads and then at the skatepark I found at the Pavilion Centre, which was not too far away,” he said, getting ready for his display at the Willard Beach Extreme Sports’ zone at The Ballito Pro, next week.
The 23-year-old Durban High School old boy will show off his skills, hold classes and tell people stories about his skateboarding career.
“When I was young, all the professionals considered themselves too cool to speak to kids,” said Nubange.
“I promised myself I would never do that,” he said.
His skateboarding days began after he saw a performance on television when he was 11 years old.
“I waited patiently for my 12th birthday. My granddad kindly asked me what I wanted. I said ‘a skateboard’.”
Once he got going he became “the only child in the ghetto doing skateboarding”.
“It took me two years and 10 months and by the age of 15 I was a professional, earning money from it.”
Nubange continues to dream, this time of going to California, the world’s epicentre of skateboarding.
“I hope to be there at the end of the year,” he said.
However, before that, he has a plan to hold a few concerts back in Chesterville where it all began.