SAVE HARROW SKATEPARK

Please sign the petition to help save Harrow. It's an amazing park with years of history. It's influence in skateboarding is far reaching, it's appeared in many international videos and had loads of traveling teams demo there, parts of Harrow skatepark were even used as inspiration for parts of Burton skatepark. It needs to be saved from the bulldozer!

SAVE HARROW!

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/HarrowSkatePark/

Pictures Videos Words From the Jam

A video of the day made by Tom Gnargore. Check out www.gnargore.co.uk for more West Midlands shenanagins

http://gnargore.co.uk/botjamsuper.mov

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Also check out gnargores epicly later'd Part 2 is filmed on location at the jam, documenting Brewers return to form after many years out of the game. Glad to have you back man.
Part 1
http://www.gnargore.co.uk/epiclyhaterdsuper.mov
Part 2
http://gnargore.co.uk/epiclyhaterdpart2superset.mov

Board winning frontside flip on the mogul hip by Mikey


Some Photos from the day taken (badly) by myself.

Danny dishing out some commentary / verbal abuse.



Tom Gnargore won a pair of Vans shoes for running faster than everyone else.



They soon caught him up though.



Abuse.



Pandora's box.



Gawkrodger and Brewer.



More abuse.



West Midlands made the journey and took home mad product.



People.



DaveDave in turmoil.




Photos Taken by Gawkrodger.

JAMMY BOT

Yeah the Jam was rad.

Massive thanks to everyone who turned up and schralped.

Also to all who donated prizes.

I'll write a list up and put some photos up when I'm not at work.

More Jam news

More prizes from the following;

Twenty Four skate shop in Derby are giving us some stuff

Shiner are giving us some Independent Stuff.

Out of Step are giving us Stereo stuff

I-Five are giving us Karma stuff

Vans are giving us Vans stuff

Non-Stop skate shop in Nottingham are donating some stuff.

If you add all that up it's a lot of stuff, or 'mad loot' as me gran always said.

Update on the Jam

Danny and Claire at 24, Nic from Vans and the good people at Out of Step and Shiner are sorting us out some prizes to give to you lucky people.

Also Vans skaters Kris Vile and Ben Nordberg will be there with hopefully an appearence by another Vans skater tbc.

Mad thanks going out to all of them.

See the updated flyer and links below showing the generous people supporting this event.

See you there!

Skatepark Jam - 23rd September

Get involved!

Check out these links:

Vans - www.vans.co.uk/

Twenty Four Skateshop - www.myspace.com/twentyfourskate

UK Skateboarding Association - www.ukskate.org.uk/

New videos from the park

Here are a couple of edits made by some visitors to the park.

First up an edit made not long after the park opened by some Leicester heads.



Burton On Trent Session. from BLOGandDIE and Vimeo.

Cheers for that SPT. Check out http://www.bloganddie.blogspot.com for more Leicester goings on.

Next up is an edit from the good people from Wolverhampton.

http://www.clickskate.co.uk/BOT%20montageSuper_Settin003.mov

And thank you for that Emery. Check out http://www.clickskate.co.uk for Wolverhampton shenanigans.

Sorry I can't figure out how to link properly so you'll have to copy and paste the links into the address bar to watch them. I'll figure it out soon.

In a bit.

Burton Skatepark in Sidewalk

I'm a bit late with the news and you probably already know, but Burton skatepark has a Terrain Spotting in the new Sidewalk (August issue) written by the beard and featuring our friends from Derby.

www.sidewalkmag.com

Thanks

Well Burton skatepark is now open as you all know and it's amazing here's just a quick thank you to the people involved in the project, because without them it wouldn't have been built.

So thank you too;

The ladies from the Council: Corinne O'Hare, Charlotte Bodger and Bethan Golland

The guys at Freestyle: Steve Crawford and John Flood. Also the builders who did a good job.

Everyone who came to any meetings and supported the park.

Official opening day information

July 22nd

The council have booked Team Extreme to come to the park on the opening day. They will be organising demos (one skateboader, one bmxer, one inliner) and competitions throughout the day. Prizes have been donated by Freestyle skateparks.

In addition to this there will be a burger van, ice cream van and a bouncy castle.

Photos from Satuday/Sunday

Well the first weekend of the park being open has been and gone. Loads of people came down on Saturday from all around the Midlands. Things were crowded but everyone ripped. Everyone seemed really stoked on the park!

Some pictures taken by Christian and friends on Saturday 23rd.

Jack Robinson - Frontsiderock


Emery - One footed ollie over the hip


Cov Sid - Frontside disaster


Cov Sid - Frontside disaster


Beastly - Shuvit flip crossfoot over the hip


Dave - Nosepick


Oli - Backside smith


Becky - Hip flip


Christian - Ollie


Photo taken by Beastly on Saturday 23rd with an edit by Alex Burrell

Alex Burrell - Frontside feeble on the tight quarter


Alex Burrells edit.
Burton-On-Trent from Alexbuzz on Vimeo

Photos from Sunday 24th

Sadly I coulnd't make it down but the West Midlands stepped up again and gave the park a good seeing to. Christian has let me steal his pictures from the day to put on here.

Christian - Shuvit Heelflip


Christian - Nollie backside 180 heelflip


Brewer - Noseslide yank in


Tom - Frontside 5.0


Tom - Backside smith


Christian - Kickflip


Brewer - Frontside flip


Tom - Rock and roll


Brewer - Nosepick


Christian - Nollie inward heel


Tom - Tailslide


Thanks to everyone for letting me use their photos/videos.

Photos of the finished park

Pictures taken with permission from www.ukskate.org.uk cheers guys.

Open Sesame

The skatepark is OPEN.

That's right OPEN.

OPEN OPEN OPEN.

Come along and skate it, I'll get some pictures of it to post up soon, but I'm too busy skating it at the moment. It's so sick!

Directions

Directions here at last.

The address of Shobnall Leisure Complex where the park is situated is:

Shobnall Leisure Complex
Shobnall Road
Burton upon Trent
Staffordshire
DE14 2BB

Telephone No: (01283) 516180

As you go down the entrance to the leisure centre follow the drive around to the left and the skatepark is right at the bottom of the car park.


Drive there:


From the South:

1. Leave A38 at junction signposted Burton A5121.

2. Take 3rd Exit on island.

3. Take 1st exit at next island signposted Burton A5121, Hospital, Shobnall Marina, Shobnall Leisure Complex.

4. Take 2nd exit at next island (McDonalds is opposite) signposted Hospital, Shobnall Marina, Shobnall Leisure Complex.

5. Take 2nd exit (straight on) at the next island.

6. Take 2nd exit (straight on) at the next island.

7. Take 2nd exit (straight on) at the next island.

8. Take 1st exit at next island signposted Hospital, Shobnall Marina, Shobnall Lesiure Complex.

9. Follow road for about 1/4mile and Shobnall Leisure Complex is about 3rd on the right. There is a big sign at the entrance to the drive.


From the North:

1. Leave the A38 at junction signposted Burton (South) A5121. Please note that this is the second exit for Burton DON'T take the Burton (North)/Claymills exit becasue you'll probably get lost in town.

2. Take 1st exit on island

From here follow the directions from the south from point 3.


Save the environment and get there another way:


Walking from the train station:

This should only take about 10/15 mins or less if you skate!

1. Out of the main doors of the station and turn left.

2. Walk down the road to the lights at the bottom of the hill, opposite the Town Hall.

3. Cross over the road and turn left and walk along until you reach an island.

4. At island turn right and follow the main road up and over the bridge.

5. After you have walked over the bridge Shobnall is 1/4mile up the road on the right. There is a big sign at the entrance to the drive.

Buses from the train station:

Out of the main entrance to the train station catch the 10 or 10A going in the direction of the Acorn Inn (this should be on the side of the road that the train station is on). The skatepark is about 2 or 3 stops on. If in doubt ask the bus driver to tell you when you are near Shobnall Leisure Complex (on the right hand side of the road, you will be taken over two islands before it, if the bus takes you under a bridge you've gone too far!)


Map of bus route
http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/__80256E280053B5B6.nsf/vWeb/BE2800AB11112887802572A5004EB411/$File/10%2010A%20QP%20Style%20Map%20for%2025%20March%202007.pdf?Open

Timetable
http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/__80256E280053B5B6.nsf/vWeb/BE2800AB11112887802572A5004EB411/$File/Routes%2010,%2010A%20for%2025%20March%202007.pdf?Open

Park finish date

Righto here's the news quoted straight from Matt.

"I have been informed that the builders will be off site and the park be skatable on Sat 23rd of june (next week)

Anyone coming over please refrain from using it until this date please... we have had people using it already and those people are going to get thier heads banged together when I see them and this is the reason it has been delayed!

Opening jam will still be on the 22nd of JULY and I am working on the flyers as we speak so that will be posted up asap.

ITS LOOKING AWESOME!!!

Cheers

who's coming then?"

YES!

Opening date bad news

Due to vandalism and bad weather the finish date of the park has been put back, it WILL NOT be ready for the date I originally posted below (this has been edited). I'll post the new finish date when I get it.

The opening day extravaganza remains on course to entertain you on the 22nd July.

Once again if you see any numpty in the park vandalising it or using it before its finished tell them to sling their hook they're wrecking it for everyone else. Thanks.

Tonights Photos

Apologies for the lack of photos I was in a rush.








It's also worth mentioning again, please don't use it until it is ready you may wreck it before and put the opening date back, thanks.