Skate4Cancer Australia

Ask an artist how they see the world and they'll describe colours and textures you never would have noticed. Ask a photographer and they'll wax lyrical about light and contrast for hours. Talk to a skater, and you'll soon see that their world is one giant skatepark, full of stairs and rails and twisting, curving highways and footpaths.

Rob Dyer is a skater. After losing both grandmothers, his mother and his best friend to cancer in mere months, Rob's world was turned upside-down... but his view of it never changed.

In July 2004, 20 year old Rob Dyer completed an 8,000km skate from LA California to his hometown of Newmarket Canada to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. This was the first of many Skate4Cancer achievements.

Rob Dyer and the Skate4Cancer team are currently making their way across Australia, after skating the length New Zealand over the summer months. The guys arrived in Sydney last month and will be skating across our beautiful countryside until mid-2010.

We think Rob is currently skating a remote outback highway... We just hope he hasn't seen Wolf Creek!

SMAC Magazine will be touching base with Rob and the S4C team regularly while they're Down Under and will bring you more of the S4C story along with interviews and pics very soon, so stay tuned!

Words by Jade Kennedy