Hello my fellow tea drinking scone eating UK rippers.

I was wondering what the UK skate scene is like in YOUR town AT THE MOMENT.

It is almost dead around here, my local indoor skate park is infested with bladers, and the outdoor parks with bladers and bmxers, you do get a skateboarder or two every now and again but bladers and bmxers highly have the majority.

And you never really see any extreme sports being done in ths street, a few of my friends do it, but they get kicked out of spots within a few minutes.

So what is the UK skate scene like in your town at the moment?

Amazing. It's absolutely amazing here. Birmingham is thriving and skating lives on. Infact there's now a gang of skaters of about 50 skaters who go into the city centre on weekends and just rip as many places as possible and piss off the cops. I skated with em the other day and taught some of the younger ones some stuff. It was pretty fun.

BIRMINGHAM FOREVER!

Flip ;)

Hello my fellow tea drinking scone eating UK rippers.

I was wondering what the UK skate scene is like in YOUR town AT THE MOMENT.

It is almost dead around here, my local indoor skate park is infested with bladers, and the outdoor parks with bladers and bmxers, you do get a skateboarder or two every now and again but bladers and bmxers highly have the majority.

And you never really see any extreme sports being done in ths street, a few of my friends do it, but they get kicked out of spots within a few minutes.

So what is the UK skate scene like in your town at the moment?

u obviously wernt around chester back in the days of Commerce house...

that used to be the main meeting spot for skateboarders, it was by the bus station and had a perfect marble floor, 6set and handrail for skating, but then it became a drug den and is now shut off and wrecked by spiked rails, and the floor is gone. you would see 50 odd skaters there on any night, along with a load of generic posers etc. they all seemed to vanish when it got shut down, you see some of the older ones skating the rows or the cop occasionally, but yea most seemed to stop. chester used to have good spots, then they all got killed either by the owners or by druggies. sucks :(

The Belfast skate scene is pretty good, the city centre is loaded with spots and they're really close together. (for the most part)

There's usually about 50-100 skaters downtown on a good day, and it's rarely crowded, (Except when all the "freerunners" wont get out of the way:))

Just go out of Chester, or wherever you are, I never have been told off skating or told to move lol, although i live in a village like 15 mins from Chester...

^^ Yeah, the skateparks in cheser aren't too great, the boneyard is good though :)

its ridiculous here, theres good points and bad points:

good points:

lots of skaters means you rarely skate alone in town
theres no real ******* skaters
theres amazin spots
no sectarianism in skateboarding

bad points:

because of the numbers of skaters if one does something wrong all the rest get a bad
no parks
rain force people under the motorway which gets very dodgy

It's ridiculous here, there's good and bad points.

But there are good and bad things about anywhere. (Except heaven, I've heard it's pretty good.)

seems the belfast scene is booming not like down here where i live, but it seems like skating is starting to come back though, very slowly, i rember in about 03/04 they were so many skaters then most of them quit

here terence man are you goin to that competition down at the newcastle park on the 28th?

hah, i didnt even know, lol, i had a feeling there was going to be one there soon
where did you here about it ?
yeh i will probaly go well not too sure cause i suck at park skating , you going?

my mate pete told me about it,

yeah man im gonna hit it up with aload of me mates, see what its like, might enter like, dunno but havnt skated a park in ages, if ya end up goin, dats me in my avatar, give me a shout if you see me

well ill go, if there a best trick contest i will enter and skate the grind box.
im the guy with the gay ass accent,lol

haha alright man sounds good

Aye I'll head up as well, Its been a while since I last entered an Northern Irish contest.

Does anyone have any details on this comp?

Any details Arto? anyway if you dont enter there are a few spots i could show you around.

cool man, we should hit some spots up after the comp though cause aload of my mates are entering it and itd be fly ditchin them, what spots you got up there? any sets?

im still gettin work on the details, its £7 entry though :@

well theres the promanade which has got some grinding legdes and a lil gap thing in the middle of them and theres a 4 set there too(not sure if you can skate ther still,but im pretty sure you can)(close by).

there a school with 5 and 6 set and some nice other spots thre too.(15/20 min walk away

bigish 3 set (sometime you get kcked out because it by a church)close by.

big flatgroud place with loads of homemade ramps and rails and ****and right next to that place theres a football pitch with a high ledge to go off.(5min walk)

those are about the only spots i can think of at the moment
what time are you going to be down there at?

damn that sounds pretty good, id walk them 15 mins to hit up them steps, sounds good, as does the ledge, is the area dodgy at all?

ill be down about an hour or something before the comp starts, i just gotta wait for my mate pete to come on msn cause he knows the deal with it

no its not dodgy
long time scince i skated in Newcastle.
yeah those steps at the school are pretty cool theres also a handrail down the 6(i love rails but its the wrong side for me.)and manny pad and a nice hill to bomb too,also depends if theres a football/rugby match on there other wise we wont be able to skate and you got to jump over a fence. any idea what time it starts?

i skate maidstone the skate scene is sick loads of people skate there...

well theres the promanade which has got some grinding legdes and a lil gap thing in the middle of them and theres a 4 set there too(not sure if you can skate ther still,but im pretty sure you can)(close by).

there a school with 5 and 6 set and some nice other spots thre too.(15/20 min walk away

bigish 3 set (sometime you get kcked out because it by a church)close by.

big flatgroud place with loads of homemade ramps and rails and ****and right next to that place theres a football pitch with a high ledge to go off.(5min walk)

those are about the only spots i can think of at the moment
what time are you going to be down there at?

Sounds pretty sick man, It's gonna be pretty mad.
Is the skatepark any good? A few "photie's" would be good.

cant find photo but heres some vids i found of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCXEnrRQH60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B56ycSRiE

ones a blading vid but still shows the you the park

here man we're heading up earliesh hopefully, do you wanna hit up sum of them spots before the comp?

sounds good man

Talk about off-topic like!

Korahn Gayle's pretty sick too.

London is pretty sick, it used to be ohh skateboarding your a grunger and all the black boys that did it would be called white, but now its becoming much more accepted with pharrel and the ice cream team its seen as more of a hip hop/grime type thing so its getting sick now. Loads of skaters near me, none of them wearing tight jeans thankfully, more baggy trouser and new era hats lol.

Talk about off-topic like!

Korahn Gayle's pretty sick too.

your off topic yourself mate, take that to the faovurite uk skaters thread.

your off topic yourself mate, take that to the faovurite uk skaters thread.

Yeah, I must have alzimers (how do you spell that, I forget "irony")

haha its no sweat man i was just pointing it out,

okay terence so far ive got 7 people goin down includin me so we can films ome stuff at those spots, ill film some stuff of you and put you in the friends part of our vid if you want?

yeh that would be cool man .

Yeah, that'd be good. the more the merrier.
Besides, I wanna hit up some of those spots!

The Belfast skate scene is pretty good, the city centre is loaded with spots and they're really close together. (for the most part)

There's usually about 50-100 skaters downtown on a good day, and it's rarely crowded, (Except when all the "freerunners" wont get out of the way:))

How many are there nowadays? I used to live in the UK but migrated to AU just as skating and freerunning started to get more common. Tis a shame the aussies over here haven't quite got the same idea about freerunning.

There's not as many freerunners as skaters, but they do my head in, they jump over the smallest part of a tiny wall, clap, then stand at the bottom of the stairs I'm skating.

Some of them are good, and not annoying, but the vast majority of them are little 12 year old's that think they're amazing.

They're not.

well phlap its not like its your spot, its everyones to do whatever they want

There's not as many freerunners as skaters, but they do my head in, they jump over the smallest part of a tiny wall, clap, then stand at the bottom of the stairs I'm skating.

Some of them are good, and not annoying, but the vast majority of them are little 12 year old's that think they're amazing.

They're not.

Oh okay lol, well thats good, I don't feel like I'm missing so much anymore lol.

It's not great where I am. Too many chavs, but last week i got the train down to Maidstone and its amazing there.. so many skaters

there's some kickass spots in preston, but for the newest city in england, it's really missing a skatepark :(
the nearest park is either in blackpool (ramp city) and bolton (bones) lol, granted they some of the best skateparks in england:P but i would mind a concrete park in the city centre thats for sure!:)

pretty nice with NOTE skating round fliming with workers and lurkers, plenty of shops and projekt skate park and sum local ledgends eg. Joe Gavin etc... :)

Amazing. It's absolutely amazing here. Birmingham is thriving and skating lives on. Infact there's now a gang of skaters of about 50 skaters who go into the city centre on weekends and just rip as many places as possible and piss off the cops. I skated with em the other day and taught some of the younger ones some stuff. It was pretty fun.

BIRMINGHAM FOREVER!

Flip ;)
I live near birmingham.

Good for you.

Where i live you can't go 15 minutes without seeing a chav.

Good for you.

Where i live you can't go 15 minutes without seeing a chav.

Make that 10 mins for over here.

well the closest town to me has the best spots ever
1st spot: a lot of smooth flatland, including a 6 flat 4
2nd spot: known as adams flatbanks and a gap
3rd spot : a nearby school with sets from 2 to 10

it's ok to good round here. there's loads of spots if your willing to either catch the bus down to my city or by the docks. plus there's a few ****** ledges and flatground spots near me. There's quite a few skaters right where i live but most of them are either much younger than me or asses. There's tons of skaters in my city center but most of them are pretty rubbish.
We've got one of the BEST skateshop around though. Second only to 5050 in bristol i'd say. It's got the nicest guys in there who know what they're on about. It sells it's own decks and clothing. Has premiers of skate videos (got a cinema projector and put on volcom chicago before anyone else got to see it one year) has random parties with free giveaway raffle things, and is in the very near future collaborating with DVS so the new DVS original intent shoe will have a special insole sporting it's logo:
http://www.scenepreston.com/catalog/popup_image.php?pID=2918 (http://http://www.scenepreston.com/catalog/popup_image.php?pID=2918)
they also have a great artistic thang going on aswell. They sell special paint and stuff and also support local music and stuff

the only thing we don't have is a local skatepark cos the old one closed down (to be fair it was well dangerous, i think one guy actually got killed their cos a ramp collapsed or something:S but if you can get someone to drive you for 30mins there's probably about the third best skatepark in England. It has the largest vert in England, it's absolutely amazing. so well maintained aswell and has such a variety of stuff. they add stuff and modify the layout every so often. They have a guy there called woody (ironically:p) who designs and part builds all the ramps and also has a skateshop there, plus he rips!

Good for you.

Where i live you can't go 15 minutes without seeing a chav.

15 mins count yourself lucky. If i just go out my door im basically confronted. and i live like 3 miles from Chatham. The place where chav's originate.

Make that 10 mins for over here.

Are you serious phil, what about fanny eyes and his mates, theyre there like as soon as you set a foot outside your door to shout, "ya hippy bawwstarrds"

Are you serious phil, what about fanny eyes and his mates, theyre there like as soon as you set a foot outside your door to shout, "ya hippy bawwstarrds"

ahaha so true lol.

Are you serious phil, what about fanny eyes and his mates, theyre there like as soon as you set a foot outside your door to shout, "ya hippy bawwstarrds"

Ah but fanny eyes is more of an annoyance (a punchbag) than a chav.

There's a skatepark, skate-shop but hardly any skaters there are a few but there way advanced a cant go with them.

Aw man, I just left Woodbridge, England.
I'm in North Carolina atm.
Baha, you guys had chav problems? I lived in between two chavs, who's mates lived right down the street. =D
I still have scars on my knuckles from the first time one confronted me alone. =P
Yeah, I got it later, but hey, nothing more than a few bruises. At least I broke a nose.

Ha, let me try to remember woodbridge as it was, since I didn't start skating 'till I came here..
There were a good few stair sets that seemed perfect for "jumping", as I liked to jump over things all the time, almost like a smaller, parachute-less version of base jumping.
And I used to run down handrails, too.

There was a sick as hell stair set I always jumped..8 or so stairs? With a "hubba" on either side, and a hand rail in the middle, up by some concert hall.

Meh, I don't remember much.
Sad I had to leave.

Ireland sounds like the place, though. But you guys have some foony accents. lol
But, I'm sure you guys think the same of us.

Ha, let me try to remember woodbridge as it was, since I didn't start skating 'till I came here..
There were a good few stair sets that seemed perfect for "jumping", as I liked to jump over things all the time, almost like a smaller, parachute-less version of base jumping.
And I used to run down handrails, too.

I seems u used to do Parkour, if u dont know wat that is search it. I used to do it but i have stopped now.

the skate scene in the village i live in is good for a village, theres guite a few skates and mini council outdoor skatepark but loads of people do freerunning

I still have scars on my knuckles from the first time one confronted me alone. =P
Yeah, I got it later, but hey, nothing more than a few bruises. At least I broke a nose.

One?

I'd kill for a one on one with a typical chav, but the buggers always hang around in packs.

funny thing is phil you use the term kill literally

spread the love not the hate fellas

In manchester theres quite a lot of skaters but you tend not to see them unless you are looking for them if you get what I mean :P