KENT LINGEVELDT Skateboard shaper
Kent Lingeveldt, 32, is a skateboarder, photographer and owner of Alpha Longboards. He lives for the sound of polyurethane wheels scraping tar: skateboarding is his passion, and it is his love for the lifestyle that has formed his life path. Kent started out street skating in 1994, in Cape Town’s Hanover Park and when he moved to the city’s Woodstock suburb a few years later, he discovered the joy of ‘bombing hills’.
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He started downhill racing in 1999, at the first Redbull Downhill Extreme in Cape Town. He is one of only five riders to have competed in all four races. From 2004 to 2006, he travelled to Europe and South America to compete internationally, and in 2009, he competed at Newton’s Playground in Australia. In 2011, after a two-year break, he made his return to racing. And so the Alpha story continues…