After looking at the video thread, and seeing the number of skateboarders here, I suggest we start doing sessions!

We could all ride to (or meet at) cantelowes for a good ol' bit of 4-wheeled fun?

On other sad news, my friend Jeremy (who designed Cantelowes) was working with some older dude on the redesign of Stockwell, and that guy (sorry can't remember his name) passed away of pneumonia 2 days ago.
Stockwell rejuvenation is going ahead anyway, but this will slow down the other projects they had together for parks all over the UK.

Im fully down for skate sessions.

I also fully recomend MudChute down on isle of dogs, my favourite concrete park in London.

I have been having dreams of rekindling my old Kendall snake.
Just need to find some gullwing pro III's.

id love to but im totally out of shape skateboarding wise....be lucky if could pull a kick flip to be honest.

Sorry to hear about the guy from Stockwell. Kind of gutted that's going to be redeveloped, I've wasted many hours flowing around that place... But I'm still down to skate. This summer I went to Oregon and skate four concrete parks in a day, including Burside and Pier Park. What a fcking day that was...

Jol, that Kendall graphic was an all time favourite - so good. My Roskopp face board had to be relegated to the attic sadly as it terrified my little girl!

Have you checked out Disposable, Sean Cliver's book, its pretty thorough regarding that whole Jim Phillips era and the subsequent World Industries domination. There are some really interesting stories and anecdotes too.

LOVED the Roskopp face. My mate had it in purple.

don't worry - the main bit stays more or less the same, they're just making the area behind the sausage (where the wooden quarterpipes used to be) way gnarlier...

Love the Disopsable book, awesome.

Forget kickflips, kickflips are boring (well not really) but just rolling around is just as much skating as doing a kickflip.

at cantelowes you just need to be able to carve!

cmon - mudchute is pretty crap compared to cantelowes or stockwell!

we could also do a LONG ride to Romford (next spring maybe though)

whoa are those your boards?? Damn

I had an original ratbones from '84 and a mark rogowski vision up until recently. sold both on ebay and made enough to pay my rent for about 4 months.

I love Mudchute, its just tight n whippy n fast and awkward and weird. everything i love in skateboarding. Could spend hours there sessioning the small quarters n blocks.

Bowl in peckham is meant to be Rad but havent checked it yet, finsbury park aint to bad for a few hours if its reasonably quiet. Oh and the new London Bridge park looks sick if the age restriction has been lifted by now.

my first deck - in 1986:

OK it was a MINI, but I was REALLY short back then.

Man, I wish I knew about mini's back then. I couldn't ollie till I was about 15. Had to stick to the pipe.

this dude has QUITE a collection:
http://www.ukoldschool.dsl.pipex.com/collection.htm

I have about 30 boards which i have amassed over about 20 years.

im insanely impressed by both those collections! what board is that on the right with pink wheels, the graphics are amazing.

'87 Brand-X XeX. The graphics are not of this earth. Look carefully and you'll see a angry face. Built with Gullwing Super Pro III's with Kryptonics CSI's and Vision rails. Alva-like Tri-tail with 7-thick layers of maple. Indestructible.

As may have guessed i am a board nerd!

Thems the gullwings had on the right. Got bored and stripped them, then gave em to the kid next door. Damn.

gullwings were for loosers. OK I think I had a pair at some point.

Had some of those gullwing truck's in pink, yet another thing i sold on ebay and lived off for a considerable time. Shit i wish id kept them now they looked awesome.

Independent are the only trucks ive EVER skated.

Would maim for this H-Street Matt Hensley kingsize that I originally bought from Slam City in Talbot Road at the tender age of 18... wipes a tear.



I've got one of the huge Krooked reissue Gonz flowers decks built up awaiting me getting my head around getting on a board for the first time in about 13 years.

back to the subject, we actually did a stockwell session a while back with the Fixed gear London guys, plus Mike (trampsparadise), Roxy, and our hero Tom Crowe, who ripped the park on his fixed-gear bike! Pics are on fixedgearlondon.com somewhere.

I've been to cantelowes with him and he can surely motivate you!

Ha Cantelowes!
I learned to skate there, back in the days before the council pumped a laod of money into to make it prettier. Shame I can't skate for crap really otherwise I'd be back int he ol' hood faster than you can say skateordie really fast.

stockwell is my local, when it was open i was there pretty much every saturday and sunday. its gonna be sooo good when it reopens, everytime i go past it just looks better and better. last time it was resurfaced it was shit, but this time the people doing the resurfacing are the people who skate and ride it, namely tony and miller, aswell as some others. cant wait till its done though. ill let everyone know and then you can all come down here and skate!

Shhhh don't tell everyone about peckham bowl - i loves it and it's all mine! MINE I SAY!!
Can't wait till stockwell's done... Imagine it all smooth - loverly.
London bridge (tower bridge really) park is brilliant if you like tight, whippy and quirky...

Is Tom Crowe the dude with v short hair who wears smiths t-shirts and can do frontside half cab flips into the bank at southbank?
Me and him started riding fixed at the same time i think - when i saw him he had just squared his back wheel on his first fix
and was a bit gutted. Only met him a couple of times but he was genuinely decent.

nice its all about the lines these days for me!

I used to be at stockwell all the time too, we probably saw each other! I even have a "Stockwell Lumps and Bumps" t-shirt made by my friend Rob.

Eager to skate it again - that new surface was really crap and slow..

Tom Crowe:

(with me to the left and andypancake to the right)

^^Nutter

YES!! Sign me up. Used to live in Brixton & Stockwell was my local. The Portuguese guys OWN that place.

Meanwhile is my local now but I need some equally doddery and un-gnarly dudes to head down there with.

Fixedgearlondon is always down for skating!!! Were already there!