Often I’m asked by people from other nations “So is Son Skate kinda like Christian Skaters?” However South Africans usually ask me, “So is Christian Skaters doing the same kind of thing as Son Skate or what makes you different? Well I’m happy to say that Christian Skaters and Son Skate are and always have been exactly the same thing.
History:
In 1992 – 1994 when Christian Surfers was formulating here in South Africa, we were faced with a decision of a name. We had heard about Christian Surfers movements in other countries, but there was no global organization at that time. It pretty much was a move of God across the planet.
Brett Davis the pioneer of Christian Surfers (CS) in Australia felt compelled by God to keep on gathering the tribe so to speak. BD passion and drive saw the emergence of an international movement of like minded affiliates, this became the global organization “Christian Surfers”.
10 years later in France in 2004 we realized that an international identity and unified logo had been established around Christian Surfers. Our dilemma was that while we were in every way a part of this we had our own logo and went by the name Son Surf (and Son Skate).
A slow process was then adopted where by we began to adopt the CS Logo and mix it with our logo. Gradually we dropped our old logo and went by the name Son Skate, but with the CS logo. We were ultimately walking a road towards changing our name.
Son Skate has not stopped, died or been assimilated by Christian Skaters, we have always been CS, but in order to go forward we feel we are at the point in our history where we need to brand ourselves under Christian Skaters,
John 10:10 and Joshua 1 are still two key verses that have shaped us and are still at our very DNA. Son Skate SA is Christian Skaters SA.
I hope that that explains it?
Blessings
Roy Harley
Founder Son Surf SA.
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