About Ndorfin?
OK, so what the heck is NDORFIN all about? We'd love to get all airy-fairy about aiming to inspire extreme sport athletes by making adventure 'sexy', but we're usually met with blank stares and the occasional 'huh'. In it's most basic form, NDORFIN is a sports media collaboration centred around a web-based, adventure events calendar. Our mission will be to -:
- provide accurate event information for a range of SA events
- feed adventure news to enthusiasts via a network of sites
- showcase kick-ass photographs and video footage
- publish articles and interviews of exploits, expeditions and adventures
- build a like-minded adventure community
So basically NDORFIN is in the media business, and we aim to do sports media better than anyone else. We have created a number of innovative tools in order to market events, products and sponsors, and these include the following -:
- a content-managed website
- an annual, printed adventure calendar
- an annual event - NDORFIN DAY - held on 16 December
- an adventure DVD planned for 2007, and featuring the best uncut adventure
- footage from SA adventurers
- an e-book, also planned for 2007, brimming with mixed media adveture content
Jacques: 
Jacques Marais was born a long time ago, way before the advent of Windhoek Lager and the coining of words like ‘metro-sexual’. He spent most of his youth poring over classics such as Grensvegter and Ruiter in Swart, but had an especially soft spot for the sultry Tessa, an unmatched, one-woman crime-fighting machine.
These days he writes articles for magazines, rides his GT i-Drive a lot and takes photographs of daring athletes performing extremely dangerous deeds. Life is good, and he likes to think that his wife and children look up to him as an individual who is truly at the zenith of an unremarkable little life.
Jacques is currently trying to obtain an eviction order for the Mexican Mariachi Band blaring out a never-ending symphonic pop version of La Cucaracha in his skull. He also checks under his bed every night, just to make sure that Angelina Jolie isn't hiding there dressed in her skimpy Tomb Raider outfit. Damn ... no luck so far.
Graham: 
As a re-formed bird watcher, Graham seemed the perfect candidate to work on the adventure calendar. Not only is he able to mimic the call of the lesser-known blue boobie, but he is one of the few men out there who can proudly attest to having survived a mating session with an emu in the harsh Australian outback.
But these days of living on the edge are sadly long gone, and currently Graham keeps himself off the streets by taking part in competitive knitting events. “Pull-overs are a firm favourite of mine, and I cannot help but feel that familiar stirring in my loins every time I hear the words ‘Cast on, Cast off’.
Graham lives in the boot of a stolen Toyota Tazz on the slopes of Table Mountain with Anna, his Canadian girlfriend and knitting instructor. Together they share a beautiful dream, that of one day being appointed as the official fashion consultants to Health Minister Manto Shabalala-Nsimang.
Craig:
What can I say? Craig was abandoned on our fragile little planet as part of a master plan by extra-terrestrials to subject the human race to untold suffering. Raised by a pack of urban wolves in one of the seedier suburbs of the Port Elizabeth, he soon progressed from intimidating alley cats to chasing Fiats and other small cars along Marine Parade.
Mountain biking was a natural step up during these early days of fending for himself. “I found that I could easily out-crank grannies and small children after having ‘redistributed’ their possessions”, he smirks while sorting through a selection of used Zimmer Frames.
In his spare time, Craig is an accomplished poodle groomer and has had to refuse several invitations to lecture at annual dog shows around the world. “Why should I waste good beer money on an airplane ticket if I have my very own dog show right here at Refresh”, he mumbled when questioned on the issue.
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