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Watch new Crossfire Xmas Jam video

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Danny Bulmer’s personal video edit from December’s Xmas Jam has been released online overnight. Reminisce our 10th Anniversary get together at London’s BaySixty6 skate park and find the full feature with more footage and gallery photos here.

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Tom Knox and Neil Smith skate Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill’s concrete park gets a session from Blueprint’s Tom Knox and Neil Smith this week, courtesy of Lost Art. Paul Shier may have parted ways with Blueprint this weekend, but word is that BP will be rolling forward so don’t believe the hype.

Tom Knox @ Muswell Hill Featuring Smithy and friends from Lost Art on Vimeo.

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Watch video of Flo indoor skatepark in Nottingham

It looks like the new Flo Skatepark in Nottingham is ready to be sessioned this Saturday with Element team riders present to open it officially. Have a look around courtesy of this video that has surfaced today.

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Eddie Belvedere and Reiss Johnson at OnBoard Sheffield

Phil Harvey grabbed an hour at new OnBoard Skatepark with Eddie Belvedere and Reiss Johnson. Check out the new indoor wood that has emerged in in Sheffield here.

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New Wheelscape bowl in Brentwood, Essex opens

Essex have a new bowl at Brentwood now courtesy of the good fellas at Wheelscape. The new build is located on the site of the old skatepark in st George’s Playing Fields CM14 5AE, and is open to the public.

This is the first phase which will also see a street section built at some point. Visit brentwoodskatepark.org.uk for all local info.

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Adam Howe ‘Apprentice’ footage from Colchester

adam_howe_skateAdam Howe gets seriously stuck into Ramp Rage in this clip. ‘Your hired’.

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Brighton’s skaters fight to get a new park at the Level

The ongoing and very sad battle that Brighton’s skateboarders are involved in is reaching boiling point as the council there have stuck a cog in their plans of redevelopment by insisting they move into a different area within the park. This has received much opposition from locals as a green area that has been chosen for the new build will obviously be bulldozed and concreted over. The main problems are highlighted here in this recent article by local paper The Argus

View the recent information below and do your bit to secure the future of Brighton’s skate scene and make sure that the locals there get a skatepark at least the same size as the existing area. This city deserves a World class skatepark and nothing less.

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Help decide the future of Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark

As you may remember from December 2010’s appeal, Bay Sixty 6 skate park in London was under threat due to various plans being proposed to turn the park into offices. Since then, the owners of the skatepark have fought a hard battle to renew their lease for another two years and the local council now recognise that there needs to be a facility for us. The park will be issuing a statement soon about redeveloping the park which will be more good news for you but this battle has not ended yet, it still needs your help, and it needs it right now.

Why? Because the long term future of the park is still under threat and there’s more for us to do to secure its future.

Proposed plans to put offices on the skatepark site remain. The council have said that an alternative location for the skatepark would have to be provided. BUT there is no specific alternative for relocating the park. The draft plans are not specific enough to guarantee the future of the skatepark and we ask that you join us in petitioning the planning department of Kensington and Chelsea council further.

The new petition is now live and needs your support today at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ensure-the-future-of-bay66-skatepark.html to raise awareness of just how important it is to keep this alive over time.

This is very important, so please read this and sign it today and then spread this post on your facebook page by liking the page above, linking this post through twitter and emailing it to your friends today too. Everyone you know connected with the park should sign this asap and do their bit in helping the long term future of London’s only privately run skatepark.

Here’s our last Xmas Jam video from the Bay to remind you why we need to keep this skatepark alive and continue to bring people in our scene together. Thanks for your support.

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Out At The Pictures West Country edit

Tom Fok has an edit online this week shot last summer with Nick Chappell and Tom Steele skating various concrete parks including Filton, Emerson’s Green, Hereford and Midsomer Norton.

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Fresh photos from Extreme Connexions skatepark

The Extreme Connexions skatepark that is undergoing surgery right now for launch this summer in Hemel Hempstead is shaping up nicely. We sneaked in to give you some updated shots this weekend so have a gander at what is to be revealed very soon as it’s looking very impressive.

To find out more about this project, click here for a full feature of who is behind it and how the UK’s only indoor concrete skatepark design was put together.