I recently came across this great video series by DIY America, it’s all about skateboarding and creativity, I thought I’d embed 6 of them here for easy viewing. There’s supposedly 12 in the series but I could only find the first 6. They are all in HD so click full screen for better viewing.
Skate and Create: Episode 1
Skate and Create: Episode 2
Skate and Create: Episode 3
Skate and Create: Episode 4
Skate and Create: Episode 5
Skate and Create: Episode 6
Both of these things are happening on Sunday at EKPark, get there for 2pm to catch the Skateboard Scotland AGM and find out more about what Skateboard Scotland are up to and get involved.
Then from 3pm there’s the Relentless Super Skate Tour, free entry so get along and have a skate!
http://www.skateboardscotland.com/events/2011/11/20/230000.html
The annual Fundee Jam is set for Saturday 27th August at Dudhope skatepark. Come along, have fun!!!
Amazing skating from Kilian Martin again in this video. Watch it full screen if you can.
We’ve set a poll up on our Facebook page to capture people’s preferred size of deck that they’d like so that we can better tailor our order for what people are after.
We need to know asap so Go take the poll here if you want one of the decks!
£35 for the deck.
This is the artwork for our soon-to-be-made Dundee Concrete decks. The artwork is a combination of a main photo of Craig McKnight (dundeeconcrete.com/memorial.html) doing the huge wallride at the Perth Road Factory (now the DCA building) surrounded by various other images from over the years of skating in Dundee dating back to the late 80’s. (Click on the image to zoom in and see in higher quality, or better still click through to Flickr using the link below)
It was quite fun pulling all of this together, also a challenge due to the simple black & white artwork format that we’re going for.
If you’re a Dundee skate local then you may recognise some of these images (I’ve added notes to the image on Flickr if you want to check your answers! http://www.flickr.com/photos/suburbia_org_uk/5943882299/).
All profits from these boards are going into the fund for the Dudhope Skatepark ‘bite’ extension which will also be a memorial to Craig McKnight. The decks will be available soon from DundeeConcrete.com for £35, also hopefully from some friendly skateshops because the more we sell the more money we raise towards the circa £14k total required for the extension. Any shops willing to stock them then please get in touch!
This is super gnarly. Tailgrab 900.
In case you missed it Real have just released their long-awaited video ‘Since Day One’, Focus will be hosting a the Scottish Premiere on Thursday 14th April at the Royal Mile Store in Edinburgh.
The video starts at 7.30pm, entry is £2 and gets you a burger and a beer (or a coke if you’re a youngster) and all proceeds go to johnnykickscancer.org.
You can also buy the video from iTunes for only £4 / £5, click this link to go buy it, watch it and go skate!
Great to get some positive feedback in the local press about the lights at the skatepark!
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2011/03/28/letters.shtm
This weekend Feb 5th in Malmö, Sweden is the Vert Attack 5 comp at Bryggeriet indoor park. Visiting from the US will be Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi and Jeff Hedges, there will be a ton of riders from all over Europe and the UK so it’ll be a pretty crazy day.
If you can’t make it over there then you can tune into the live webcast which starts at 1pm Swedish time (12noon here in the UK). The link below should take you to the live stream once it’s up:
http://www.bryggeriet.org/2011/01/vert-attack-5-live-webcast/
Old school Dundee skater Nolan Docherty sent over a photo of him wearing a nice Dundee Concrete shirt whilst skating a sweet looking skatepark in Japan.
Ok, you may have heard the news already but here’s a blog post to confirm it:
We are getting lights at the skatepark :)
Now, there is a slight bit of temporarily bad news, in order to install the lights the skatepark will have to be closed off for two weeks in order to install them. The park will be fenced off so there will be no access to the park during this time. However, this is a small price to pay in order to get lights to keep the sessions going throughout the winter!
At the moment the start date is Monday 2nd November (next week!), it could possibly be delayed, check back on Dundee Concrete or on our Facebook page to keep up to date.
More details about the lights…
There will be four 10m tall lighting towers with two lights on each tower giving a total of 8.84kWatt, in short it will be very well lit! Obviously location of the lights is important, looking at the plans they’re well laid out with basically a tower at each corner of the park, something along the lines of the image below:
They’ve been positioned at the lower left to make sure they are out of the way of any future construction to fill in ‘the bite’ (see Memorial page for more info on that).
The lights will be on a timer and will switch off at 10pm each evening, cleverly they will actually start to switch off at about 9.50pm with two lights at a time going off every few minutes, so we won’t be suddenly plunged into darkness mid-session!
I will post follow-up info soon including the various community bodies that have provided funding and people that have helped make this a reality!
Enter the Nokia Push N8 competition, deadline is October 15th now October 22nd!!! Read more over on Skateboard Scotland:
http://skateboardscotland.com/blog/2010/10/12/180338.html
Malmo Ultra Bowl II video
I really want to get over to Malmo and skate the parks over there, maybe a trip for early summer :)
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