Prepare to have your brain melted. I’m sure we say that every time there is a new Mark Webb BMX edit and it is with good reason, every edit just gets more and more incredible. This new edit was filmed and edited by Chris Wilmshurst.
Last trick…unbelievable. Rewind x 3.
Last weekend Southsea Skatepark held their annual King of Southsea BMX competition which brings riders from all over Europe and the UK together. Despite a drop of rain here and there the comp was a huge success. Check the video and photos below and you can see more photos by Matt Maber HERE.
The skatepark itself was featured in The News the other day too, the charitable trust that took it over recently has made some serious improvements, read more HERE.
We have mentioned the incredible BMX talents of Southsea Skatepark local Mark Webb a few times, often with video edits of him killing the skatepark. Jay Twist (@EX_Productions) put up a brand new edit the other day, this time featuring some heavy duty street footage, with spots from all over Portsmouth and just off the island too. In a matter of day or so the views were getting on for 20,000. This is some serious destruction, be prepared to shout the odd expletive or two.
An incredible edit of Kevin Peraza’s trip to the south of the UK, the first half filmed at Southsea Skatepark. What can you say…some mental riding, absolutely killing the rink ramps. So good that Southsea is right up there on the international map of BMX.
Hot to trot is Effraim Catlow’s latest trick with his ride. Technical bits are halfhiker pivot xft juggler pivot to halfpacker. His blog Flatmatters has a ton of articles which go up daily. worldwide content as well as Southsea. It is a very well respected blog. Enjoy.
You’ve gotta love the internet. One of my regular jaunts around the wiggidy web led me on to one of my favourite sites www.theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com. A real goldmine for visual heritage, among other things. I was delighted to instantly recognise ‘HELMETS MUST BE WORN’ and Jason Lunn perfectly being captured blasting an x-up off the extension. Sick.
Check a small handful of other Southsea Skatepark photos by Karl Fuller from Bournemouth.
The old King of Concrete competition was a highlight in the Southsea events calendar for years and drew BMXers from all over the country, Europe and further afield all to Southsea Skatepark (and Southsea pubs and Chaos too…). After a break the big summer BMX contest is now back with King of Southsea on 28th and 29th August.
The weekend will be packed with different events and no doubt Southsea’s strong BMX scene will be heavily representing with the ridiculously talented local riders.
To find out more check the blog and see the poster below.
Hot off the press another live event at Guildhall Square. Ballet and Breakdancing with BMX Bikes!
Extreme Sport, Physical Theatre, Breakin’ & Contemporary Dance live in Guildhall Square.
In association with the New Theatre Royal, Creative Campus Initiative and the Big Screen
“Kompany Malakhi continue to create their unique brand of cutting edge work with this gritty yet graceful exploration of cause and effect. It comes to Guildhall Square, Portsmouth on Friday 25 June at 12pm and 1.15pm and it is FREE for everyone!
Fusing BMX flatland, Breakin’ and contemporary dance, Kompany Malakhi premiere their latest work, Rotations, in Portsmouth ahead of a national tour.
Hailed as “powerful and enlightening” by critics, Rotations began as Project 360° in 2008 and was a great success, the new show is anticipated to be one of the most exhilarating outdoor performances witnessed this year.”
The event will also feature a short experimental film about the Portsmouth Olympian Cyclist, Clarence Kingsbury. All created with the BBC, the Big Screen and Creative Campus Initiative from the University of Portsmouth as part of the developing Portsmouth History Project.
Each performance lasts 20 minutes (12pm – 12.20pm and 1.15pm – 1.35pm) so make sure you are in Guildhall Square on Friday 25 June to catch this stunning display!
For more information please contact the box office on 023 9264 9000 or visit www.newtheatreroyal.com
Effraim has sent us through some more BMX footage, this time of Southsea very own Mark Webb. We did a post on Mark before, a short film entitled Mark by video students from Portsmouth University.
I’m not sure what the background for this footage is, but it’s off the hook. This guy kills it. Check out the slow motion 900 on the quarter pipe. Nuts.
A little Easter flatland session with Effraim Catlow and Pete Hollinger down at Southsea Skatepark. Cheers for the video link Effraim. Crazy skills. I can hardly even wheelie so I stick to skids and riding real fast…..
Southsea Sessions from Pete Hollinger on Vimeo.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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