West to East

Tom, Emo, Graham and crew went on a little mission for Skateboarding is Sundays to skate across the island from west to east, starting in Gosport, ending up in Eastney and hitting up all the spots in between. Awesome as always.

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King Kong Wedge:One

You might remember the King Kong event at the skatepark back in the autumn of last year (our photos are here and here), it was really successful and raised a lot of money for the skatepark. On Friday 12th March the next King Kong event will this time be at The Wedgewood Rooms with a line up including music and an indoor mini ramp. Yes. Indoor. Mini ramp. Doors open 8pm-2am (U18s allowed 8pm-12). Tickets are £5, £6 on the door.

ROOM:ONE

The Ruskins
“a wonderful f**king band – like Jamie T on steroids” – Tom Robinson (BBC 6)
“Anyone who can stick the words ‘cycling proficiency’ in their song deserves to be on my show!!” – Steve Lamacq (Radio 1)

Milk Kan
Blaggers, chancers, punks and urban poets
“Milk Kan you rule. Somewhere between Bob Dylan and Mike skinner. Poets with Attitude, free-form, stream-of-consciousness blues-rapping with acoustic guitars…” – Steve Lamacq BBC Radio 1.

The Hit-Ups!
“…A hugely energetic mix of funk, ska and bruising hip-hop.” – Venue Magazine
“F**king awesome!” – live-music-scene.co.uk

Orange Blossom Specials
Fresh new addition to Southsea’s indie scene.

PLUS: AN INDOOR MINI-RAMP!!
A mixture of Bored & Herbal’s skateboard team & a handful of Southsea’s finest in-liners shredding it up throughout the night.

Plus DJs Fotza & Spikey Mark

ROOM:TWO

Durty Sound System
funk.hiphop.dub.rock.latin.jazz.reggae.soul

+ Skateboard, In-Line & BMX films screened all night

There will also be an afterparty too:

BREAKNECK & 10TON AFTERPARTY : SDM & CHARGE
drum&bass.dubstep.grime
Goes without saying these guys are top of the game and will be ending the night like no others can.
Midnight >> £1 OTD

Once again all profits made will be going to SOUTHSEA SKATEPARK

Ticket Outlets are:

Portsmouth
- Box Office, Albert Rd | 023 9286 3911 | tickets@wedgewood-rooms.co.uk
- Bored Skateboard Shop, Albert Rd | 02392 426 388
- Southsea Skatepark | 02392 295360

Southampton
- Reskue Skateboard Shop, 10 Bargate Str | 02380 710528
- Pijin BMX Shop, Above Bar Str | 02380 336777

Chichester
- E.S.P Skate/BMX Shop, Cathedral Courtyard | 01243 532828

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Following Toby Taylor on Bored

If like me you can’t get enough of skateboarding, but just don’t know where to dig everything out from that there world wide webby, then local top gun Toby Taylors twitter feed for Bored of Southsea will fill all your needs in the world of local and international skateboarding. Jump on Tobys feed HERE. Check Tobys Tre Flip at the underpass courtesy of Tom Timewaster.

BoredRuffCuts2008-2009 from tommccaughan on Vimeo.

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Bored Store Nike Competition – Fluff

Bored currently have a competition to win the new Nike SB Fluff book. It’s a freakin whooper, believe me. Enter HERE.

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Southsea Skatepark Mini Ramp

Well, my informant might have been a little ahead of schedule at the weekend. Which is a real shame, but by no means a downer. This mini is looking sick already. 30 foot wide and 4 foot high. Perfect for beginners and old dogs alike. Would benefit from a goofy and regular tombstone maybe, or even a channel. Hey, I can’t complain though, this is very exciting.

Sorry Borneo, it looks like the session will have to literally take a rain check, but believe me, the back lip to back smith reverts are coming soon. Photo courtesy of Claire Sambrooks early morning dog walk.

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Blueprint Skateboards Film Premier

We all know Bored runs things on the Southcoast and to mark the release of Blueprints “Make Friends with the Colour Blue” skate film, the whole team will be touring across the UK and will make their regional stop in Portsmouth on the 6th of April.

They will be hitting up Emsworth skatepark at 1pm for a demo session, then head over Bored for a 5pm signing and finish things off at 7.30pm in Little Jonny Russells for the regional premiere of “Make Friends with the Colour Blue”

For more information about this event please contact Bored at www.boredofsouthsea.co.uk or head over to the Facebook page for updates. Make sure to put this one in your diary. A very unique opportunity to see the Blueprint Team in Southsea. Hats off to the Bored team. Nice one.

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Skateboarding is Sundays: Southsea Cruiser Crew

If like me you were lucky enough to have Wednesday off you would experienced first hand the delights of an incredibly sunny day. one of the first, if not the best of the year so far between all this rain and cold weather of late.

Some of the boys took advantage and went for a seafront cruise. Good times for sure. Documented by Bored Manager Tom Time Waster.

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Herbal at The Unit

Some of the guys from Herbal Skateboards from Hayling Island were over at the Unit 19 mini ramp over the Christmas and in the New Year and they’ve put together this edit. Some really good skating in there, as you would expect from that Hayling crew.

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Dom Powling for Bored of Southsea

Really nice ‘lomoesq’ edit from Sam Bailey focusing on recently recruited Bored shop rider Dom Powling. Backtail bigs like butter on a muffin.

Bored – Dom Powling from Sam Bailey on Vimeo.

Vis : blog.boredofsouthsea.co.uk

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After skating…

…the boys enjoy a sit down at the seafront on a Sunday. Photo courtesy of the ever busy Quiet Corners lensman Paul Gonella. Perfect days, albeit still cold.

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Adam Keys Steeze

Bored rider Adam Keys certainly knows how to throw it down and if you can find the secret warehouse maybe you can join him. Good luck on that…

Photo / Robert Galpin

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Bored – Blueprint Advocate

Blueprint Skateboards recently put up an interview with the guys at Bored as part of their advocacy program, profiling the shops that have supported Blueprint the hardest. Pop over to the Blueprint website to have a read.

Best skater employee?

Toby Taylor, some people may say the wrong side of thirty for a skater but still we put our chips on him every time.

(The Blueprint team having a kickabout on Southsea Common)

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Chichester Skating

Some sick skating from the Chichester crew in a little edit by Jack Chute, loads of Southsea and Portsmouth skate spots plus a section by Bored’s new team member Dom Powling.

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Local Photographer – Harvey Mills

Okay, so it’s not quite on the Island, but hey, when the content is this good we can forget about the extra few miles. Harvey Mills shoots Murray Cross chomping the Langstone 13 set on the Havant roundabout with ease. Perfect timing and composition from Harvey.

Check out Harvey’s webiste www.harveymills.com and also his Flickr. Below are photos of Charles and Southsesa’s buttery own Bored teamrider Adam Keys.

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Gary Scott In Charge

Gary Scott has been behind the controls of Bored skateshop for over a decade but now and again he puts down the paperwork and the calculator and picks up his board:

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Bored Advert – Adam Keys

Bored just posted up a new video advert for team rider Adam Keys, sick stuff as always.

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SNOWBOARDING IS SUNDAYS

SNOWBOARDING IS SUNDAYS from tommccaughan on Vimeo.

Fresh Blood – Jak Tonge

Local skater and Bored team member Jak Tonge has a little interview over at the Crossfire website and includes some amazing video footage too, be sure to check it out. Good work Jak.

(Photo by Ranny)

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Slammers and Hammers Vol. 7

Check the new Slammers and Hammers volume 7 edit featuring the legendary Jon Sekulla. Previously this was only shown on the night of the 6:57 skate video premiere.

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Herbal Skateboards – Super Slowmo

Hayling Island’s Herbal Skateboards just posted up a nice little slowmo edit filmed at Hayling’s skatepark. Good stuff.

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