Bilbao trip 2006

Plans are afoot for a Spain trip in the spring....here are a few great reasons to go to Bilbao. A huge variety of concrete and transitions to fill a long weekend. Photos by Vost, Styley and Rich.

California in June!!

View California skateparks and spots in a larger map So the road trip of the year begins on 30th May 2013.....San Francisco and all points south flying out of Los Angeles on the 8th June. Meeting up with Twiss, renting a car and hitting as many spots as our legs can cope with. Looks like a ton of new transition and skateparks since I was there last but we will be on the lookout for more...ramps, ditches, curbs and not forgetting pools. The map is going to fill up over the next couple of months to give us as many options as we can get. Better get fit in the meantime.

Another Costa Rica post inspired by a visit to Subway.

So in 2005 me and Siobhan spent the whole year travelling from Mexico City to Sao Paulo...mainly overland by bus and the rare taxi...i had my skateboard and was always on the look out for a spot or two. I had no idea Costa Rica would have some perfect concrete parks hidden away in some unlikely places. We arrived from Nicaragua by bus and the first town we hit was Liberia. Just off the town square we ran into a little skateshop. Asking about parks the guy in the shop handed over his two shop copies of Blast Magazine and pointed out the photos of the parks in Costa Rica, then it was down to us to locate them and decipher the directions. First to the coast and the surf town of Tamarindo and then on to Lake Arenal and the legendary Tilawa hotel bowls. Here are the magazines and the articles that led us to some amazing spots.






So massive thanks to the guys in the shop in Liberia and Blast mag for showing us the way...the Subway bit in the title is Charlie who works in Uplands...this is how we found the parks!

30. Market Harborough redux. 22nd April 2012

A very fitting 30th skatepark in my year long mission to skate 42 different skatespots. Market Harborough in it's old incarnation was pretty much the first skatepark i ever saw. It was where i learnt to balance, to ride banks and the very limited and rough transitions that made up the old place. The park has been transformed into an almost perfect bowl which is built on the same site as the old one. Lines, hips and corners for miles and perfectly smooth concrete. Perhaps 20 years too late for me as i now live 240 miles away....luckily mum lives round the corner so i can grab a few trips down there when we are in town. The reason for this weekends visit was the christening of Victor Stewart Charles up in Leicester so an added importance to the visit to the park before the service. This entry and the trip to the park are dedicated to Stoo Charles who I spent a lot of time with at the old park, he would be stoked to see what has happened to the place and i know he would have been down there at 7am too!

With the lack of dry, warm weather i'm looking back to 2006.....

Don't think i'll get the chance to head back to Bilbao before June 20th but one day. 2006 was a good year and on top of a trip to New York i went to the Basque country with Rich, Styley and Andy to skate the concrete parks around Bilbao. Pictures by Styley, Andy Vost and me.
















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1. Market Harborough, 18th August 2011

First recorded session of 4242...Market Harborough skatepark, built in 1976...knocked down in 2011! A couple of months after this picture the place was demolished. My next visit wasn't so bad though as the new park was being built on the very same spot.


A very apt first spot as this was the first skatepark i ever went to...next visit will be to skate the new version which is guaranteed to bear no resemblance to the place i first skated in 1987.