EVIL Vs GOOD Tour

On Tuesday 24th August the Witchcraft and Lovenskate tour will be hitting Southsea. They will be in the shop for a hang out and tea so please come by say hi and bring some bisquits. Then they will be hiting Southsea Skatepark to shred the satans toilet shortly after.

EMERICA Stay Gold Regional Premiere at Bored

Its been a long time waiting but EMERICA footwears Stay Gold film is finished. The world premiere was last week in LA and judging from the reviews its going to be a banger. Quotes like “Andrew Reynolds has risen the bar of stair skating” and “Jerry HSUs come back part” make us think this is going to be the best offering from this team yet. The UK premiere is going to be held in London on August 26th then a few days after Bored will be holding a FREE regional premiere at home in the shop (details below) Come along and bring your friends! Oh, yeah there will be give a ways too.

Tags: Bored of Southsea, EMERICA Stay Gold

Herbal’s July Monthly Edit

That time of the month again when PhinFilms and Herbal Skateboards drop their monthly skate video edit. This month includes a load of skating at Southsea skatepark and around some of Southsea’s street spots, as well as the usual Hayling skatepark footage. Good stuff as always.

Tags: Herbal Skateboards, PhinFilms, Southsea Skatepark

Sam Bailey – King Kong Edit

Sam Bailey’s perspective of the recent King Kong skate jam at Southsea Skatepark, good stuff as always from Sam:

Tags: King Kong, Sam Bailey, Southsea Skatepark

éS Game of S.K.A.T.E hosted by Bored of Southsea

This years éS Game of S.K.A.T.E will be held on the 15th August at The Red Flat like last years competition. Expect a big turn out of both on and off island locals both entering and spectating. Bored of Southsea are of course hosting this event so if you have any questions drop them a line or pop in store.

The winner of each event will be invited to compete in the UK final on 5th September, and the winner of the UK final will be flown to the European final later this year. Pictured below is last years winner Tom. Straight outta Milton fool.

Tags: éS Game of S.K.A.T.E

King Kong 2010

The 24th of July, the beautifully sun-soaked Saturday just gone, saw the urban culture & skate event; King Apparel King Kong 2010 take over Southsea Skatepark.

Aimed at celebrating & encouraging the creative sides of urban culture, it certainly did that. The ‘Street Art Doodle Wall’ was well and truly covered in a bit of everyone’s creative (and messy) spark, shout out to all the artists down on the day who had some great freestyle pieces going down, stuART, Mr. Kemp, Leila, Bryan & Joe. Also our arty sponsors Graphotism & Ironlak (well worth checking out if your into that kind of thing).

Plenty of fat beats boomed out across the park and common around it thanks to DJ Mos, Kenny, Random Scarves & the Durty Sound System DJs, a beastly selection of dirty dubstep, DnB, hip hop & alternative funk kept everyone’s tastes more than satisfied, sound track to the day couldn’t have been better.

Anyone unlucky enough to not make it down missed out on some hot as hell discounts on some of the freshest threads about, as the King Apparel team were down in force with a stall showcasing their selection of fine garments and not to forget the crafty locals Individual Threads.

Last but not least the key part of this year’s event; The Herbal Skateboards Mini-Ramp Jam was SICK.
Contest format was a minute each, going into a final 5 skaters with 2 minute runs. It was a heated battle and off the chain tricks were going down left, right & centre, but in the end the victors looked a little something like this:
In 1st Adam Keys, 2nd Noddy Rands & 3rd Bob Grist. All well deserving winners, with plenty of King Apparel, Herbal SBs, LovenSkate & Vans products as prizes. Again well done guys!

This was followed by a best trick contest and Casey Brown took top honours with the smith to kickflip out that he had nailed pre-contest…so sick. Some King Apparel T-shirts and a Herbal skateboard found their way into Casey’s mitts.

Thanks goes out to the Herbal crew who ran the jam, Strong Island’s Paul Gonella who kindly came down to help judge the contest, SUSO Drinks who kept everyone from going thirsty on a very hot day and everyone at Southsea Skatepark for helping making the event happen.

Writeup by Nick Stokes.
Video by Herbal Skateboards.

Tags: King Kong, Skateparks, Southsea Skatepark

King Kong 2010

This year’s King Kong skate event at Southsea Skatepark will be this Saturday 24th 12-6pm and like last year will be too good to miss. The event will include live DJ’s, street art workshop, stalls to buy stuff and a mini-ramp jam/comp on the new mini. Will see you there!

Tags: Herbal Skateboards, King Apparel, King Kong, Skatepark

Every Man…

I was lucky enough to work on another tee design for Bored on Albert Road recently. Here’s a little teaser they dropped on their blog. More info soon.

Design : Tristan Savage

Tags: Bored, Nelsons Flags, Tristan Savage

Herbal Skateboards/PhinFilms June Edit

Herbal Skateboards/PhinFilms have just uploaded their new monthly edit for June featuring loads of skateboarding around the south coast as well as home base at Hayling Island.

Tags: Herbal Skateboards, PhinFilms

Road Buzz

Neal from Saft and Boneless got in contact about their new film Road Buzz which they just completed. Road Buzz is a feature length documentary about Downhill Skateboarding and features music from three Portsmouth bands, Big Squirrel, The Reactor Core is Beautiful, And You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons.

There is a screening coming up in Woking, The Longboard Lounge will present ROAD BUZZ at 3pm and 6pm on Sunday 11th July at Woking YMCA. Running time 80 minutes. Entry is £2, which also enters you into the Longboard Lounge Random Raffle with all proceeds going to the YMCA.

They hope to organise another one in Portsmouth soon with some of the bands playing.

For more details about the film check www.roadbuzz.saftandboneless.co.uk.

Tags: Road Buzz

Dom Powling – Rushes

Sam Bailey recently put up a new new edit ‘Rushes’ featuring the skateboarding of Bored team rider Dom Powling skating spots in Portsmouth, on the south coast and up in London. Amazing work and skateboarding as always.

Tags: Dom Powling, Sam Bailey

Adam Keys and Dom Powling

A little edit featuring Bored team riders Adam Keys and Dom Powling skating Emsworth. Check Adam’s new trick, straight mental.

Edit by Dobbo.

Tags: Adam Keys, Bored, Dom Powling

Old Skateboards Needed

This is a plea to those of you that have any old skate decks and wish to donate these to a new exhibition coming up later on this year.

Cannot say anymore at this stage but its going to be a collaborative project between Portsmouth and Southampton.

Tom at Bored has kindly donated a couple of decks and Southsea Skatepark have about 20 saved up.

Ideally I am looking for about 50.

Please can you email me if you have any.

Tags: Collaboration, Portsmouth, recycle, Skateboarding, Southsea

Portsmouth Green Fair 2010

Portsmouth Green Fair 2010 is on Sat 17th July from  11- 4 in Portsmouth Guildhall Square and Victoria Park. The event is part of the Green Week Campaign and organised by Portsmouth Climate Action Network.

The current action packed line-up includes:

• 2 stages with 15 live bands powered by Electric Pedals bicycle generators organised by the Portsmouth coalition.
• DJ Danny Turbo.
• A bicycle powered cinema showing some of the latest eco activist films.
• Steam Boat Willy pedal powered hovercraft, where YOU can fly by pedaling.
• The Interdimensional Wizard who will show you some amazing sun powered energy machines.
• Clowns and Street entertainers doing workshops on juggling etc.
• Lodge Arts giving spray painting workshops and showcasing entries for the Big Green idea for Portsmouth
• Green motor show including vehicles which run on waste gas (Organic Power) waste oil (Veggiepower) and electric vehicles
• Healing Area including massage, reflexology,reiki etc
• Talks on permaculture, environmental gardening tips ,money saving guerrilla gardening etc.
• Portsmouth Beekeepers association where you can find out how to keep your own bees and buy some local honey.
• Art Displays and competitions from local schools
• Children’s games and activities inc building a monster using recycled materials, bouncy castles and Face painting. Also roundabouts and children’s rides. And story-tellers
• Bicycle maintenance demos + Trick bike display and skateboarders.
• Live broadcasts by Express FM and filming by Portsmouth Live
• Demos of green technology plus information and campaigning stalls
• Green Crafts inc Cob ovens and woodworking
• Pedal powered smoothie maker.
• Farmers Market for local Organic fruit and vegetables etc.
• 4 cafes selling local Organic fair-trade food and drinks including a cafe in a yurt.
• + almost 100  Stalls selling local produce, inc. clothes, eco-gifts, arts and crafts

They are currently looking for cyclists to power the generators – contact chriskennett01@hotmail.com to find out more. There are also other opportunities to get involved.

Tags: Climate Change, green, Green Fair 2010, Local Events, pcan, pedal, Pedal Power, Portsmouth

Southsea Skatepark Flickr

Southsea Skatepark now has a Flickr group set up so if you are on Flickr and have some park photos you can add to the growing collection in the group stream.

www.flickr.com/groups/southseaskatepark

(Photo by brieflives)

May Footage from PhinFilms and Herbal

It’s that time of the month again to catch up with what the skaters over at Hayling Island have been up to courtesy of PhinFilms and Herbal Skateboards (who now have an online store on their website, plus loads more new edits and photos).

As usual prepare for some sick skating, some swearing, a spot of shenanigans plus the last two tricks which are incredible. You have been warned!

Tags: Herbal Skateboards, PhinFilms

Blueprint in Southsea (and Emsworth)

A couple of months back the Blueprint Skateboards team came down as part of their national tour to promote their new film ‘Make Friends With The Colour Blue’. Whilst down here they did a demo at Emsworth skatepark, a signing at Bored and then were all in attendance at the south coast premiere of the film at Little Johnny Russells. I’ve posted up my photos from the day over at Forever Circling and included a few below as a quick glimpse:

Tags: Blueprint Skateboards, Bored, Little Johnny Russells

Girls Group at Southsea Skatepark

Southsea Skatepark is now running a weekly session every Monday afternoon for girls (and ladies of course) interested in trying out or developing their skills in skateboarding, BMX and inline skating. The session is between 4 and 5pm every Monday and is £1.50. For more information contact the Skatepark or call 07866 109096.

Don Brider

Don B is a legendary skateboarder from the south coast and one of the true innovators in British skateboarding. Southampton skateshop Reskue recently posted a blog all about him and it included some photos from the 80s of Don B skating Southsea Skatepark. Below are a couple and click here to see more and read up on the one and only Don B.

Tags: Don Brider, Reskue

Southsea Skatepark 1992

Some absolute classic skate footage from Southsea Skatepark from 1992. The edit features skating by Greg Nowik and Mike Manzoori plus locals Chris Moore, Ian Collenette, Ian Harper, Barry Abrook and Mark Matthews.