Storm The Parks: Ripley

So here it is, finally here. Epic day - we had some gnar skaters turn up and mashed up the tricks for our comps... have a look.

Becca puts the flag up

Hello Sailor

Phil on duty

Chad gansters rolled up

Ryan Kearney doesn't mess about with a boardslide

Ripley squad are berzerk... Becca makes friends

So we kicked of the best trick on the flat bank comp

Becca filmed... can't wait to see the edit

Got blasted by the megaphone commentary

Callum Moore was badass on it... fs flips, hardflips... the works

But Josh Nicholson bagged the prize with a tre flip body varial

Then the photographer from the Telegraph came down... Becca helped with the light meter

She shot a picture of Mr Nicholson, smith stalling

Then Becca commanded the fleet for some skate battles

Boom... Lewis Mottershaw impresses flat eric

Josh grips and rips

The secret to STEEZ

Lurk cam catches all... flat eric lurking low

Lurking for footage (camera out of shot)

Bust or bail

Lewis flips from the driveway

Avit timer... scrambling up the bank to get in the shot

Then the mini comp kicked off

Kearney killed it

So did Alfreton shredder Danny Daley

Kearney claimed first prize, and Danny Daley nailed a second

Then Kearney got up to his old tricks...

Line up for a battle

Then Craig Smedley rocked up with Heathen's Nick Roberts and Daz...

We kicked of the best trick on the driveway comp with celebrity judges Craig Smedley and Daz on the megaphone

Detail shot of Will Begg with crooks on lock for the comp

Lewis Mottershaw threw varial heels

Beggy crooks along and down

Josh N looks down the barrel of a loaded gun

Local lurker jack bangs a tre off this

Kearney took some legendary slams... hold tight till the footage drops

Lewis took second place

Will Begg nailed the gold medal in the best trick on the driveway comp

Some people sat and discussed things

While we had the giant game of skate, it battered it down with rain... badly.

Wet trousers were the order of the day. We dumped the gear in the cars and headed for dry ground.

Proof it was wet

Danny Daily with his prize tee...

Witness the wetness

Right, do one

So we headed to Belper on the way home, checked the park out

Callum's deck was like weetabix after the rain

So he skated it creatively... and we all went home.

Fail much? Yo spelled it wrong mate. Fail.

The game of skate will be continued... the people who made round two, you will be contacted for a Ripley session very soon where we finish the battle!

Cheers to everyone who came down and everyone who helped out. Epic day.

Question is, where's the next Storm The Parks going to be?

Hold tight for an edit of the day.

Safe

skateboarding 3D

Believe it.. you can now look at epic European skate pics and look cool.

This new book from Sebastian Denz, skateboarding has entered the new dimension. Pop your glasses on from that party 5 years ago and have a look at these shots.

Portraits

Action shots

Boned

Some shots from the exhibition

The full shot of the shot in the book above

Boom

Our friend brought the glasses and postcard back from Amsterdam especially for us to look cool

The flyer is printed to give you the full effect

Want to know more?

Carhartt press release

Buy it on Amazon when it comes out in September!

Ripping up Ripley... this saturday

We zipped over to our friends at Rollersnakes to get hooked up with some prizes for Saturday's jam.

There will be prizes for:

- Best Trick on the mini ramp

- Best trick on the driveway

- Best Trick on the flatbank

- Big old game of skate battle with everyone's names in brackets and a final

Goods

Plus a butt load of stickers...

A deck and a tee to the winner of each

Come down and get them... get to the green arrow for 10am!

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Mansfield sessions 1 of 5

We're doing some sessions in Mansfield to help the dudes who aren't so confident to ride their park and get used to it all. We were up there this Saturday, using the time to not only help our little pals get to grips with their local concrete, but also blaze the park and get some fresh footage for the video.

Some of the lurkers at hand, Josh , Phil, Kate and George Worthington in the back

Under the command of Becca

George kicks of with some blunt steez

And we taught some kids to drop in

Phil was shredding and giving the youngsters some tips

Phil grinds one

Josh N chilled on the quarter

Then switch flipped the euro

Set up for some crooks... not captured on camera

Then it went a bit wrong while Phil was getting a trick for the video

Josh popped his soy boots on

And hovered some over the boob

Then the GNAR CREW rolled up, Mr Tom tailblocks

Josh tails it

Chris Popp got some tricks

Mr Tom enjoying the cruising life

Josh hits the euro again

Just then the usual suspects Jacob Bettinson and Josh Price rocked up

Pricey puts a boomer tre over the gap... then a nollie one

Jacob also did, as well as switch tres, fs and bs flips and all kinds of gnar stuff.

Can't wait to look at the footage from that day...

Stay frosty

New plastic in C-town

So there's a new park in town... C-Town. The same amazing company that gave us plastic paradise, has now given us a bigger version - fortunately still made of the slippiest material on the planet.

Have a look:

Montage

Classic driveway

Quarter with a roll in... slippy as owt

Nice to see a bit of Sun for a change

You can find this new plastic paradise standard fit park here:

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