Southsea Skatepark Merchandise

Southsea Skatepark is now operated by Southsea Skatepark Company, a registered charity set up by a small group of park supporters to take over the park from Portsmouth City Council. They hold the park on a 60 year lease from the council and have an Agreement which includes a reducing revenue subsidy for the first 5 years. To carry out the large scale improvements needed to make the park viable in the longer term, they are seeking grants and sponsorship.  If you have any good ideas, we’d like to hear from you via their website.

You can also Support Southsea Skatepark by buying a selection of hats, stickers and tee shirts, ideal Christmas gifts. These are now available to buy at the skatepark. See the website for opening times and directions – http://www.southseaskatepark.com/

Prices – All hats in various styles and hand knitted – £5, Stickers 40p each or 3 for £1, Tee Shirts – £15.

More exciting products will be available soon.

Southsea Skatepark Opening Weekend – Posters

In celebration of the handover of  Southsea Skatepark from the council to the new skatepark charity trust there will be an open weekend on 2nd/3rd April.

A call for posters to advertise the planned events has been made to local artists, designers, photographers etc. All the posters will be printed up and displayed in the skatepark and also circulated around the city.

Many thanks to all those who are taking part. The first posters finished are below and more will be posted over the coming week:

Roo and Barry Abrook / Ooh La Lapin / Quiet Corners/ Ken Leung / Kingsley Nebechi /

Tearing Down The House – Roller Hockey Club

It has been on the cards for a while now but finally yesterday the old Roller Hockey Club House at Southsea Skatepark was torn down. It had become unstable and hadn’t been used for a while. I was lucky enough to gain entry back last year and took a few photographs. If anybody has any old photographs of the club house seen in better times then please let us know.

Lots of exciting plans at the Skatepark so watch this space.

This photo of Cody taking a leap of faith form the club house roof has always been a winner in my book.

King of Southsea

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.

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!

Love Your Bike Portsmouth – This Sunday

Southsea Skatepark is the venue for the main Love Your Bike Portsmouth event from 10am-5pm. Limited quantities of goodie bags so to avoid being left out get there early.

It’s going to be an action packed day with Ben Wilson showcasing his bikes and welding on site. Death Spray Custom will be airbrushing bikes, Tokyo Fixed Gear have a mini shop, Gocycle will be offering demos of their bike and showcasing special custom editions, RAW Bamboo will be bringing a few of their bikes and the new Fixei range will also be unveiled.

There will be loads of workshops and offers of help with customisation from various people including Portsmouth Creative Movement, Stu Rodda, Ian and Adam Macpherson. Badger Press will be bringing a screen printing set-up so that you can design your own bags etc, The Caravan Gallery will be bringing their own eclectic mix of cycling photographs and Southsea Gallery will be selling artwork including some of the spoke card designs.

Bike Polo and BMX Demos and the winner of the Schools Competition will be announced.

To check out the full list visit – http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/contributors

From 4pm head to Albert Road where Ian Parmiter will have an exhibition of Vintage Bikes with DJ Set and have your photograph taken on a penny farthing, ROKii Clothes will be announcing the winner of their bike and then head to Little Johnny Russell’s for free food at 6pm.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Blueprint Demo

Last Tuesday saw Britain’s best skate company Blueprint Skateboards hit the south coast, first with a demo with all the team at Emsworth skatepark then a signing and product raffle at Bored before the first regional premiere of their new video ‘Make Friends With The Colour Blue’ in Little Johnny Russells. A huge thanks to Bored and Blueprint in arranging this awesome day.

The demo itself saw some incredible skateboarding and Tom from Bored managed to capture some of it on video. In the next day or two we’ll have photos from the day and their are already some over on the Blueprint website to check out as well.

Snow and Skatepark

I’ve put up some snowy photos of Southsea skatepark over at Forever Circling, they were taken back on Wednesday when the snow was heaviest.

Southsea Skate Jam – King Kong

The skate session at the park today went off. So much went down it was insane. Jak, Clilverd and Noddys vert session was pretty special. Awesome to see the vert ramp skated. It’s so battered and old. Borneo destroyed not only the park but himself. Backside ollie from the quarter to the vert wall is always a treat to watch. Noddy (I think that was his name) dropped in from the club house vert wall. Seriously sick. Adam’s buttery skills and backside 360 kickflip over the driveway was insane and Jak’s double kickflip took the biscuit. Co-organiser Codys noseslide along the whole driveway ledge and down across the end block was a huge crowd pleaser. Clilverd was robbed trying to cab the driveway and bust himself up pretty bad.

Just a taster of went went down today. I left before the results as I was really hungry but Paul was taking photos as well so expect some more coverage and results later in the week. For now you can check out a few more photos on my Flickr. Oddly, the first skate photos I’ve taken since the early 90′s.

King Kong at Southsea Skatepark – This Sunday 4th

The King Kong fundraiser held in Southsea Skatepark between 12midday & 6pm will be going ahead as planned. The weather looks slightly less hot than the last week, but will hopefully shine on the day entertainment.

LIVE & DJED
Ska/Punk, Pop, Indie, Metal, Rock, Hip Hop, Drum’nBass & Dubstep music from, Kids Cant Fly, Little London, Dred, The White Coats, Kizmit, Jack Presto Fotza, Barrie Bun Roi, Grayzee, Ruby Soho, Underbeat, Spikey Mark & Danny Bass hosted by the one and only MC Sidekick.

SKATEBOARD, BMX & IN-LINE COMPS
With prizes kindly being donated from BORED skateshop & TKUK amongst others. Remember, if competing you need to sign up between 12.00 & 12.40.

+ GRAFFITI ARTISTS, FREE RUNNING SHOWCASES, BBQS & STALLS SELLING NICE STUFF.

All for just £4 and don’t forget the after party @ LJRs, with Gentle Bren on the decks and free entry you can’t go wrong!

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

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