LET’S ROLL!
IT’S the turf of teenagers: a concrete playground where the young and agile strut their stuff in death-defying stunts.
A skateboarder barrels down the slope, then turns in a graceful arc before gently landing on the lip of the rink. A handful of kids are his spectators today at the skatepark in
Germiston, east of Johannesburg, and watch as he performs one daring trick after another.
But there’s one glaring difference between this skateboarder and the rest. Dallas Oberholzer is no teen – he’s 46 and has the salt-and-pepper hair and beard to show for it.
Something else puts him in a league of his own:
