Ramp City Skatepark will be celebrating 10 years of service this month. Join them for a Go Skateboarding Day event open to everyone this Thursday 21st June for a FREE evening session in Blackpool.
Category: Skateboarding Events
NIKE PRESS RELEASE:
“SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE”
NIKE CELEBRATE GO SKATEBOARDING DAY & ANNOUNCE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF BAY SIXTY6
Next Thursday 21st June, Nike UK will join a global community in celebrating Go Skateboarding Day with the Nike Skateboarding team passing though London to hit up some iconic skate spots before a free public demo at Bay Sixty6.
The event will also mark the final skate session at Bay Sixty6 as we know it, as Nike say ‘Sorry For The Inconvenience’, close the doors and embark on a state-of-the-art redevelopment of the park.
To commemorate the annual celebrations, the global Nike Skateboarding team, including Sean Malto, Youness Amrani, Lewis Marnell and Wieger Van Wageningen, alongside Fernando Bramsmark, Tim Zom, Chris Jones, Neil Smith, Daniel Kinloch, Joey Pressey and Korahn Gayle plan to get London skateboarding and honour one of the most authentic activities in the world.
Throughout the day, come rain or shine, the team will take in some of London’s classic skate spots, from the Southbank to Stockwell, before heading to Bay Sixty6 for a signing session and the final demo at the existing park. To follow the action, or even better, come and join these sessions, London’s skateboarders will have to follow Nike Skateboarding on Twitter and Instagram for clues and updates about when and where they will be.
To mark the occasion Bay Sixty6 will also have free entry all day for the public to skate their own personal, final session before meeting the Nike Skateboarding team and skating alongside them in between demos.
Skate Sessions across London: 12.45-5.00pm
Free Public Signing & Demo at Bay Sixty6: 6.30-8.30pm
During the renovation, the public will be able to keep track of progress but also take a look back at the history and heritage of the notorious Bay 66 on their new Facebook page www.facebook.com/BaySixty6
The Flip Skateboards team will visit the UK in July for an evening session at Hemel Hempstead’s XC park on Thursday July 12th.
The date is set in stone and the rider list could possibly include David Gonzalez, Luan Oliveira, Arto Saari, Tom Penny, Lance Mountain, Louie Lopez, Curren Caples, Ben Nordberg, Greyson Fletcher, Geoff Rowley and Rune Glifberg.
This list of visiting pro’s will be confirmed nearer the time but get this date in your dairy and get your tickets sorted from the skate park. the session will start at 7pm.
Watch Ben Nordberg’s brand new full section for Flip released last week in advance of this visit and get hyped.
The Live Bar in Truro, Cornwall has been decided as the host of DC’s ‘Where EU At?’ premiere on June 2nd. See below for details. It will also be online on Friday 15th at the DC website if you can’t make the screening. Put it in your diary.
Volcom’s Amsterdam Am returns in July. 10,000 big euro ones are up for grabs. Book a ticket and get out to the big smoke.
Joleon Pressey and Jin Shimizu have a sale planned for this Sunday May 27th in London and will be selling a bunch of boards, shoes, hardware, clothing, wheels and more between 10am and 3pm.
Get down to 82 Lower Marsh Street, London SE1 7AB to pick up some bargains.
This year’s Girl Skate Jam UK will be held on Saturday 30th June, between 1-6pm, at Pioneer Skate Park in St Albans.
The day will kick off with a 2 hour jam for all, followed by Under and Over 18’s street comps. The miniramp jam will follow with the day being rounded off with the Sponsored competition. Nikita will again be hosting a riders BBQ. Sponsors include Cooler Magazine, Rogue Skateboards, Vans, Rockstar Bearings, Death, DC, Lakai and Rubicon Skate Camp who are putting up £200 prize money for the sponsored comp.
Rubicon Skate Camp is also offering £30 off the price of their Girl Skate Camps – this applies to anyone who enters or comes along to support the other riders. the amount will be increased to £90 off to any of the riders who finish on the podium in any of the categories. Visit Pioneer skate Park at Heathlands Drive, St Albans, Herts, AL3 5AY.
The work to bring Kennington Skatepark to life has started. Converse just tweeted this image from the site. Get hyped on the developments as they are leaked. More info about what is proposed for this legendary park from their Fix To Ride program can be found here but the opening date is Saturday 26th May. There will be a jam, put it in your dairy.
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Being huge fans of sample sales, we are proud to announce that we have partnered with Sampled this week for their forthcoming get together. On Saturday 26th and 27th May, the sample sale to end all sample sales will be live and direct from Bar Music Hall in East London packed full of goodness so get hyped on what’s about to hit London this month.
Sampled is not just a bunch of clothes thrown in the corner for you to rummage through, it combines a top quality streetwear sample sale with a record fair and a solo art sale. Expect some of the best clothing brands at a fraction of shop prices, sat alongside many of the UK’s best record dealers selling crates of vinyl, DJ sets with a selection of original Soul, Jazz, Funk, Disco & Hip Hop breaks. There will also be a nail bar for the ladies set up.
Samples of the best threads are up for grabs from brands such as Stussy, Alife, Silas, Fly 53, Famous Stars & Straps, DTA, Dephect , Generic Surplus, Good Enough, Rogue Status, Expensive Taste, The Wild Ones, Any Forty, PXL, Armory, Stones Throw, & Chief Rocka. Also expect art dealers and collectives representing some of the most sought after artists in the land.
Put the weekend of 26th and 27th May in your diary for this and expect a day out with a happy ending. You can find Sampled on Facebook and Twitter who will be updating what’s being planned in the lead up to the event. Please share this for us today to spread the word and we will see you down there.
Sampled will be held at the Bar Music Hall, 134 Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3AR.
Map here.
The Scottish skate romp that is War of the Thistles returns this year, regardless of the fact that its compatriot event War of the Roses is taking a sabbatical. The Scots will be welcoming skaters across the country on the weekend of 26th-27th of May with Transition Extreme skatepark hosting the Saturday and Transgression Skatepark in Edinburgh taking care of Sunday’s carnage. Share this and start planning your travel and accomodation to save dough in advance. All details can be found at www.skateboardscotland.com
