Derby skatepark update

Final plans are here, and it's going to be amazing. Some great stuff in here which is unique to Derby and definitely worth coming to session. Progress from today is a concrete smoothness test and some progress reporting. Have a look.

Walking around the earmarked bowl area

Work

Standing area around bowl

Laying the first area of concrete, the area which we'll approve as not to be too slippy or rough

Trowelling / smoothing machine is on it

Crazy dance moves and trowelling

Hand finishing

Smooth

The site is pretty big... can't wait until May!

Face melting decks

Some rad melting board art from illustrator Alex Trochut.

My griptape is always doing that.

Derby skatepark project: update

The base of the park is starting to take shape, and the path is started too. It's coming!

Looks like the hardcore is down, it's flat too

Daffodils loaded and ready for Spring

Different view of the scoops

Getting a feeling of the size

Looks big

The path will be there

Cornerstone

There will be some good all round filming angles from these banks when it's done that's for sure. We'll keep you posted!

Loughborough Lurking - New Concrete

We recently checked out the fairly new Loughbourough park. Nice little park with some different features, butthe location isn't amazing... bang in the middle of a council estate so a lot of lurkers kick footballs around etc... But check the awesome bowl above.

Have a look, definitely worth a trip!

Big rail, banks with great euro gap (bigger than Mansfield but a touch smaller than Chesterfield)

Mellow hip... although this area becomes a bit of a hang out zone for everyone heading to the left of this shot area (see below)

A mellow bank with rail at the top and a quarter. There's a cool manny pad area there too, small one end and deep the other, with a grindable edge / quarter on the side.

The view back to the mellow hip...

Small end of the manny pad... Chevy models to show scale...

Awesome transitions and wallrides

Checking out Josh Price's tricks

Josh Price booms a tré

POP

Check it out, it's here:

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Rad Dad flies the nest

As most people know, Wayne 'Rad Dad' Juffs is no longer working as part of Hooked, and hasn't been for the last few months. Since long before Christmas Wayne's been working hard on his graffiti blog project, 'The Rad Dad Collective', and just after Christmas Hooked and Wayne parted ways to enable him to push his blog to higher levels.

Good luck with the project Rad Dad. Go and say hello on his blog The Rad Dad Collective.

My word... Joe Marks

Epic Joe Marks footage from Get Lesta.

Back to Burton

After a camera malfunction on Thursday, we needed to head back to Burton and refilm some jazz.

Josh Nicholson is a model

Chevy the filming monster lurks

Kearney invents a new gap

Gap to bank, Kearney style

Tighten the nuts

Kearney rocks the gingerbread

Hope that's a handshake

After we got our footage and a few new bits, we went on an adventure to a hidden spot in Burton, build by the locals

It was a bit like Stand By Me

Some ghetto kit had been constructed

Epic gap rail, amazing

Bank to barrier (sweeping brush needed)

Kearney's waiting for the wider trucks for his 8.5 deck... how does he even flip it?

Everything needed a lick of wax to grind

Then we headed back to the park for a chill as our legs were battering

Red sky at night... it's going to be nice!