The LG Action Sports Tour – Recap
The LG Action Sports Tour Event in Birmingham at the end of July was excellent. It was the first time that I’ve seen any of these events live and it was very impressive. But not only was the action good, the weekend on a whole was great: a bunch of friends on a camping road [...]
[Really Small] Spine Transfer – Part 2
This is deja vu isn’t it? Well not exaclty. I’ll tell you what’s going on here. We really want to be able to transfer the spine on the mini ramp we ride at R-Kade. Mike figured we should get it down on the really small ramp first, then take it to the larger mini ramp… [...]
A Skating Adventure
So we changed what is becoming a regular arrangement and went to skate the R-Kade park, Redcar, on Tuesday night instead of Wednesday. We were dumb asses – because when we got there we realised that the skatepark closes earlier on a Tuesday evening. 50 minutes from home and stading in the first few drops [...]
[Really Small] Spine Transfer
A week ago while skating at Redcar, Mike got it in his head that he wanted to learn how to transfer over the spine on the mini ramp. We talked about maybe going for a “rock over” style manouver, hooking the front wheels over first followed by the back wheels; we also talked about trying [...]
Skate Action From Last Week
[Redcar Session 2] We hit Redcar twice last week: Saturday morning and then a mid-week session on Wednesday evening. We wanted to fit the Wednesday evening session in because we knew we weren’t able to go at the weekend as we were all away. As it turned out, the mid-week session was really good. The [...]
Best Skate Session Yet?
OK, I’m writing this on Sunday morning (ish) and I must say I’m aching. Snowboarding on Friday night was excellent; a quick drink and bite to eat afterwards meant I fell into bed around 2am Saturday morning – with the prospect of leaving the house at 9am to go skating at the R-Kade skatepark in [...]
Learning To Manual A Box
One night last week I had the 5 Bridges skatepark to myself – so I decided to document my first attempts at manual’ing one of the boxes. To me the manual is such a cool trick – it lets people who know what they’re doing combine different stuff. Some of the results are super technical, [...]
R-Kade Skatepark, Redcar – Session 1
Mike, James and I were at the R-Kade Skatepark in Redcar, last Saturday morning. We did the 2-hour slot from 10 ’till 12, taking some footage over the last 45 minutes or so. This was pretty much James’ first time in a skatepark – and I was well impressed when he dropped in on a [...]
