Some pictures of progress of Edinburgh’s long awaited concrete creation have been posted over at the Skateboard Scotland website.
Duracrete have started work spraying transitions now and it’s looking pretty amazing. There are also computer renderings of some of the park’s features so if you haven’t checked it out then go look and start drooling!
Read the article at SkateboardScotland.com: "Edinburgh starts to see it’s first ever concrete transitions"
Ok, so of course every one reading this has been coming along to the Wednesday evening Lighting Pilot sessions haven’t you? Well, if not there’s still another couple of weeks to go with this Wednesday 7th and Wed 14th of October still to go.
We’re looking to get feedback from people regarding the lighting pilot sessions so we’ve set up and online survey on the site which is in the menu to the left hand side.
Take the Dudhope Park Skatepark Lighting Pilot Survey
Despite the downpour on Friday and Saturday morning by the time Saturday lunch time came about the weather was looking up. The Fundee Jam 2009 defied the weather and a good session was had by everyone who made it along.
After the dust had settled the King of Dudhope trophy went to Ross Matthew who consistently ripped it up all day and seal it with a huge kickflip from the top of the flat area into the depths of wallows.
Photos courtesy of Derrick Linton
If you’re a long time skater or BMX’er in Dundee then you’ll probably know ‘Scottish John’. If you don’t then John Buultjens is a BMX’er who hails from Dundee but has been living in Melbourne, Australia for the last 14 years.
He’s now running his own bike company called Forgotten, he was back home to visit family (and more importantly for a reunion skate / bike session at Dudhope!) so the Courier thought it was a news worthy item, here’s the article that was in The Courier today:
Just a reminder that the Fundee Day is just over a month away on August 15th, get your thinking caps on for some funny obstacles to make for the day! I think there’s still supposed to be bands playing in the park that day too.
Pete Tosh posted a new video called ‘Concrete Dundee’, so here it is:
Ferry Inn Masterchef, Dundee Courier.
A couple of bits of news / event info from Skateboard Scotland.
War of the Thistles 2009 and Skateboard Scotland’s Mark Burrows tribute board.
WOTT09 is on Sat May 2nd and Sun May 3rd so get your gnarly boots on and get ready for some good skating!
This year mixes things up a little bit with Unit 23 Skatepark in Dumbarton hosting Day 1 of the event and Transition Skatepark in Aberdeen hosting Day 2. There will be an after party in Aberdeen on the Sunday as it’s a bank holiday so you could hang about afterwards and even go for a skate on Monday, or hit up some of the other concrete up that way.
Check out the WOTT09 page on SkateboardScotland.com for more info.
Skateboard Scotland have wanted to do a run of decks for a while and have now done a run of decks with a board for Mark Burrows.
The boards are now available to order for £35 plus p&p or you can also pick one up at War of the Thistles too. The decks are 8.25 inches wide and have been pressed by A Third Foot here in the UK so they are good quality boards,the graphic was designed by Mark’s long time friend from Tranent Jason J Thomson. Click the deck image to see a large preview of the graphic.
You can buy the boards from the Shop page on the Skateboard Scotland website.
Yep, the sun has been out and about and paying us a visit for a few days!
Hether Blether (Not here real name I’m sure!) sent a link to some photos she took at the weekend, I’ve put a few here and here’s a link to a photoset on her Flickr account with more.
If you’re taking any pictures then feel free to send us some or better still stick them up on Flickr.com (it’s free) and we can link to them, even better then please add your photos to the DundeeConcrete.com group on Flickr.
Enjoy the sun and go skating while it’s here!
If you’ve seen Fully Flared then you’ll have seen all the crazy explosion footage, but this little short music video that they made for Unkle’s song Heaven is pretty awesome.
Don’t try this at home 😉
Blair posted a link to this gem of a bit of footage from the first ever Factory up on Arthurstone Terrace, Stobswell. It’s from a video called”Fish Hae Gills! Ken Whit Eh Mean?” made by the guys that went by the name Team Warts’n’Boils.
I’m sure quite a few of you reading this weren’t even born at the time this was filmed, and if you’re wondering how Blair got to be such as good skater then it’s worth pointing out that the wee kid ripping it up in this video is none other than Blair himself (probably about 8 or 9 years old I think?). So if you want to know how to get good at skating it’s simple: start young and skate a lot.
I’ve posted links to photos from the first Factory before but here they are again in case you missed them:
? Factory 1 – Arthurstone Terrace
? RAD Magazine Factory Comp Article
Here’s one for you goofy footers.
Trailer for Transworld’s new video "Right Foot Forward".
Well, 2008 is now behind us, the weather was good enough on New Years Eve that a few people willing to brave the cold got to session at the park as the sun went down.
It was a nice (although pretty cold!) way to end the year with a cruise around our favourite chunk of concrete.
Escape the cold outside at the Skateboard Scotland Winter Skate Jam at Unit 23 in Dumbarton
Sponsored by Boardwise, Focus, Clan and more…
1pm – 6pm on Saturday 17th January 2009.
There’s a petition to gather interest from people who would like to see Aviemore once more have skateboardingfacilities. Some of you might have skated the old mini ramp outside Chevys Bar which was torn down when it was sold to developers leaving nothing to skate.
Here’s your chance to help ask for something new:
Edinburgh locals are celebrating with the news that planning permission has been approved for the outdoor skatepark in Saughton park.
Sam Paterson gave an update on the Skateboard Scotland site:
The City of Edinburgh council planning committee have finally granted planning permission for the construction of the long awaited Edinburgh skatepark at Saughton Park in the West of the city. The project has been almost 9 years in the making with numerous people involved over that time. Two false starts in the Meadows and Inverleith park delayed the project but the experience gained by the team during this time proved invaluable in the winning of this application.
We enjoyed the support of the vast majority of the local community groups, the full backing of the council, the press in the latter stages and the local Police. As ever a small minority have disagreed with the application siting noise and anti-social behaviour as their main objections but we are extermely confident that noise will not be an issue and the skatepark will enhance the area giving the locals more to do.
We will now work towards fine tuning the design whilst the tender is opened up to interested contractors. All going to plan we should get building in the spring of 2009 with the park completed in the summer. The wait has been a long one but the end result will be something special.
So, finally Scotland’s Capital City will get an outdoor skate park!
Quiksilver held an 80’s vert challenge recently where loads of pro skaters dug out their old decks that they used to ride and all the clothes to go with it.
There’s some awesome boards and tricks in amongst it all!
Pretty
Cool
A strange wooden structure appeared this evening, some strange looking freaks rolled around, fell over and moaned. Then it all disappeared into the night…
Help support Edinburgh’s Outdoor Skatepark project, fill in a form to offer your support!
You may or may not know the length of time that Edinburgh skateboarders have been campaigning to get a concrete skatepark built but has been a long struggle surpassing at least a decade which has involved several people and several hundred hours of effort.
A new application is currently going through the council planning department for the skatepark to get built in the city’s Saughton Park. This application available for viewing and for people to add their comments.
This is where we are asking for your support so we can finally get this park built.
You can offer support by accessing the link at the bottom of this article.
This will open the planning application. In the top left of this window, there is a button labelled Submit Comments, this will open a form where you can add your details, lend your support and add any comments to support the application.
→ http://tinyurl.com/edinburghskatepark
Please note: It doesn’t matter whether you’re from or in Edinburgh at all, it’s all about support for the park in general so go complete the form!
Globe TV just sent out a video from War of the Thistle 2008.
It’s got some pretty awesome footage in it!
Big Stu Graham interview scores an interview in Thrasher magazine:
Read the interview online at the Thrasher website ->
Last year’s session on international Go Skateboarding Day was pretty fun, it’s coming up again on June 21st:
On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most influential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding!
Check out more about Go Skateboarding Day on the official website, but better still, Go Skateboarding on Saturday June 21st!
The comp / funday thingthat is being planned for August needs some (council-style) legality attached to it, which could be helped greatly by a small music event being run alongside it.
Are there any bands out there (hint to Dudhope locals) that would like to sign up to be the youthful ‘hosts’ of a free music event on the day?
All it would mean is filling out a small form (with help) to apply for grant funding… and “Bob,” as they say, “is your ‘Uncle.’ “
Daryl can help do lots of organizing but it will take a group of under-18’s to officially ask for the cash.
sign up, sign up!
A nice wee noseblunt slide sequence from Jamie.
It took him a few tries to get it but it was worth the effort 🙂
The above video is posted on Flickr but you can also see it on Vimeo – http://vimeo.com/1006754
~Rick
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Anybody seen it at Dudhope?
Poor wee dude.
~ Daryl
Jack and Kev were trying for a while to get this doubles act going on in the halfpipe at Dudhope the other day.
It took them a few tries but they eventually nailed it!