Build begins

Build has started as planned today. The fencing around the whole area is up... and it's massive!

Dave gets close to the promised land

View from the ring road

View from the other side

Check it out, see how far back it goes!

Tinterweb snaps

A selection of skateboarding shots from around the tinterwebs. No names, no tricks, just pure wildness.

Derby skatepark update: Still epic

We've all been sweating with panic after the recent update on the project being slapped with a 66K over budget bill, and the possibility of losing the main areas of the park to compensate.

Quick recap: Options we faced were:

Or

Good news though, after a meeting with the skatepark project Committee (Hooked, Rollersnakes, Mode and the Council) we agree that the options that were initially given to us (above) would be a disaster. We agreed that the Council would push for something much closer to our original design that we (all skaters / BMXers / lurkers in Derby) were all happy with.

The news is that we've got what we wanted and we'll only be losing the jump box strip at the bottom. The plan is now this:

A quick bit of fudging to the original visual in Photoshop and the park will look something like this:

All in all amazing news. Even better news, build starts next Monday: 21.02.2011

10 - 12 weeks later... park for Derby! Wooot. Tell all your friends!

Gold-Ting is Ravenous

Yes Will. Straight from the horses mouth.

Great news to see Notts ripper getting in all the right places. Smash dat.

Sheff city slickers

Footage trip to Sheffield to scour the streets for spots to get footage at. We kept this trip organic, and rolled up to what we felt like, as well as hunting some new spots.

Callum sets deck up in car park

Chev chills at first spot

Callum warms up with a few grinds

Kearney finds a gap

kearney with our friend Phlegm's handywork in the background

Chev plays with some lenses

The panel judge Callum's line

Stair dance

Rocked up a Devonshire Green

Sat down steez

Quiff

kearney floats the hip

Callum got a few bits

Forgot how steep this hip was

Derby filming monster

Callum's slizzers for fun

Don't point that bail gun at me

Hards

Next spot, the ledges

Chev lurks

Callum nollie 5-0

Loner

Shoes, similar merchandising quality as TK Maxx

Next spot, manny fun

Chev films Callum

Effff

Callum

Lens

Filmings

Haggard, back to car park

Some games of skate

Judge Chev Berra

Back into the automobile, and off home. Safes.