Following the UK longboard, skateboard and gravity sports community at home & abroad
Tom Gee and Alasdair Gorniak, the guys who bring you Distance Longboarding UK, shared with us their wild skate across the South Downs and now bring you Round 2 : The New Forest. Tom tells us more about their trip, including all their kit and caboodle…
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SkateArt combines passion for skating and art by curating works from some very talented artists and bringing them to you. Not only do these boards look great on your walls, you can also add griptape, trucks and wheels as their boards are 100% skate-able.
Check out the video and the various artist collections to find the perfect piece for your wall. In the meantime, we will get the lowdown on who is behind this cool venture and bring you the deets soon! Stay tuned π
Before Tony Gale set off on this year’s freestyle skate tour, we tried to catch up with him to hear more Offset Skate Supply. Now he is back, and got his feet up, we’d like to share his story:
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Our illustrious reporter, Robbie Stevens, gives us the lowdown on this year’s edition of Hogtoberfest!
Continue reading “Hogtoberfest 2019”
We hear from LJ Leme, that old man of the hill, and his experience at the 3rd King of Huku event in Dublin, Ireland earlier this year.
Continue reading “Old Man LJ in Dublin for King of Huku”
Our intrepid reporter, Robbie Stevens, sets out to explore this year’s Summer Swine Stomp at Redbridge Cycling Centre. Here’s his story and a few extras …
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When I conjured up the idea to host an outlaw race league, I was in the pub. I thought that just getting 5 riders in the league would be a rip-roaring success. Ryan Boroughs tells us more…
Continue reading “King of the Norf Side”
Downhill longboarding and Streetluge are among the gravity sports which are rarely in the limelight. We hope this will change as a result of the World Skate / World Roller Games 2019, to be held in Barcelona in July. We interviewed those put forward .
Continue reading “UK & Ireland represents at World Roller Games 2019, Barcelona”
Keep Pushing is a female-run media and events company and Londonβs largest and fastest growing community for beginner skateboarders, focussing on diversity, progression, creativity and inclusivity.
Continue reading “‘Keep Pushing’ towards Inclusivity in Skateboarding”
Drift to the Centre are a crew based in and around Newquay. The founding members of the team are Ryan Beer, Sheree Wall, Jirka MatuΕ‘ek, Rich Travers and Signal Jacker.
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Excellent edit by Tomas JanuΕ‘ka, featuring drone footage by ArtΕ«ras JanuΕ‘ka, of last year’s Skate Hog Hill event.
Holiday in Portugal and learn to longboard dance? If that sound good to you then Longboarding Days & Nights has everything you need. Here is what they have to offer.
The last event on the BDSL calendar, Skate to Escape’s annual event, Double Trouble, has become a weekend in Cumbria not to be missed. This year, Aaron Skippings shares his story and we also hear from first-timer, Kinga Rumin.Β Continue reading “Skate to Escape wraps up 2018 with some Double Trouble”
After a successful Tregaron Freeride race Brianne Collective brought us the fastest event of the BDSL calendar. A fast straight-away with a technical chicane means tight racing is guaranteed.Β Continue reading “Bleek Race 2018”
Early August saw this year’s Bo Peep event; a National race on the BDSL calendar. All and sundry turned out for what became an awesome weekend of downhill malarkies, a dip in the sea and more downhil marlarkies. Here it all is in pix n vids. Continue reading “Bo Peep and a bit o’ Beachy – Weekend of Skate in the South Downs”