Life's A Bitch... And Then There's The Weekends

Mansfield... Session in the Sun!

(this post has been sanitized for younger audiences)

Go back to the furthers corners of you mind, do you remember when days were longer, tshirts ruled and the only worries you had was, if you were goin to crash at the sk8 park with ya mates or catch the bus all the way back home to find you were locked out.

Well them dayz are coming back... roll on summer.

Hooked hit the big M this weekend with a sesh for the youngsters and a mega with the Hooked Team, Craig Smedley, Will Golding and the big M locals.

Only one downer- poo hit the fan when some builder turned up to reclaim a bike seat from an Xer, but other than that the world was a kind place to be.

Slams, bams and kapows were the vocab of the day, so claims the pics below.

Shalom

Josh opened up with a barrage of lip tricks

Little Ryan Kirk came along for the ride, upwards fs board

Callum ollies the 6

Smedders kflips the gap.

Local 180 to flat.

Every third skater go a free tat.

Callum opted for a wicked rose and colourful time piece.

Another went for "I'd rather be skatin with Mom" across his back.

Turns out it was a miss understanding by tatoo artist, instead of "Mom" it should have been "Miles"- the things you got to live with eh!

Captain Jack Sparrow was spotted on his scooter, the local were havin none of it!

Mr C and Chevy soakin up the sun.

Smedders in flip mode.

Becca butt shot on the gap.

Callum thrown some good poo down. No grass cutters here.

360 the step up for Josh.

Ryan K gettin cheeky on the gap.

Line up... you going to go or what Josh R.

Dave teachin some urban tech tricks.

Jive Talkin, the Bee Gee's would be proud.

RK representing.

Lapin it up RK and JN.

Craig 50 50.

We gave some young guns the chance to try it out

Dave was taking style tips from the Spring daffodils

Becca films

Callum studies

Rad and Smedders chew the fat, and ice cream

Ryan rocking Heathen everything

Phil relaxing on the cope

Golem chills with precious icecream

Josh loved this block, crip kickflip manny after this

Catalogue Callum

Somethin to do with scuba diving we thinks...?

One final Roll?

Remember how much of a blast we had last Summer.

Well it's kicking off, for one final session, on the 8th of May. Same time, same place - get down to Roe Farm Community Centre MUGA to roll with us. There will be some comps, prizes and achievements to aim for.

Let's look at the lest set of sessions to see what good stuff went down...

We had a giant skate battle

Tom Ball won

Fraser cleared a gap

Relationships formed

Eardrums burst

T-shirts were bought and sold

We floated like butterflys

And got stung like bees

We repped

Comped

We shredded

And we slid, and they were an awesome blast...

Have a look at some footage of one of the events

But wait, this year our ramps have had a makeover, courtesy of our rad illustrator friend George Mitchell... can't wait to see what you got for them now.

Grind box

Kicker

Manny

The beast

Hope to see you there friends

Back to the grind

Wow, England has some rough concrete. You really notice when you skate another country where it feels like the streets are paved with gold. We went for a session down at the lego brick park on Slack Lane - first time some of us had rode it.

Shocker - The tarmac is all ripped up and there's litter everywhere. We like digestive biscuits, but not scattered and regurgitated over the skatepark floor.

Anyway we had a bit of a warm up

Rad Dad loves a bs noseslide on the slippy block

Back tails for Dave

And some crook practice

Shiiii..... it's been waxed

Then onwards and upwards for some some new lines on old spots...

What spots are you hitting these days, revisit some that you haven't skated in ages with all your new tricks!

Kickflipping to victory

The challenge has kicked off, the Hooked kickflip challenge has it's first entry... Dave's haggard ankle squeezes 11 before crumbling like weetabix. Also, filmed in the Ghetto, like riding on a gravel pit.

Go to the Kickflip Challenge page on our website for more on how to enter.

Have a look

And thanks to our sponsors!

Spain tripping

A couple of us just got back from Spain. Here's a quick round up of what went down

Get hyped on the plane

Crip blue skies

Spain... fake DC tees

Loads of skaters

More skaters spotted

Crip spots

Marble 7 with rail

This was like something from SKATE

My my my

Rocking up at the square, skaters lurk there regularly

We organised a massive SKATE tournament

We used what we had

Then our friend Pablo repped the squad

Keep your eyes peeled for more

Leave Via The A Hole

If you were shit out of luck catchin up with ETTGS on the week of its release(get your act together Quad). Then finally it has arrived at the Big Q(better late then never) in the heart of Derby.

Quad Cine Times

840pm 2nd April

630pm 3rd April

840pm 4th April

News just in... Banks are using naughty tricks to f-up Isa savers!

B wary of the BANKS not Banksy.

Let The Game Begin

Its Time Guys, The Hooked KickFlip Challenge is Underway.

We have some wicked sponsors throwin in some ace gear, so get them feet movin to the KF beat.

Also add some DVD's to the list!⬆

**Rumor has it there will be an Element Shop in Bristol around the 7th of April**

⬆2Seasons we haven't forgotten about you.

Skys the limit, throw as many down as you can without f**kin up and you could be a winner.

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