The Copelands Spring Skate Festival is happening 29th & 30th March. This will hopefully be a yearly festival, with skating, activities, music and a licensed bar. Friday 29th March We start at 10am on Friday the 30th with some free 30 minute beginner taster lessons. Under 16s comp from 1pm with @deathskateboards Fingerboarding fromΒ @sinister_fingsΒ from 2pm […]
Continue readingNew reception and facilities at Copeland Park
We’d like to show you around our new reception area, where we’re looking forward to meeting your for lesson or event. We have the fingerboard park out front. Please help yourself, we’ve usually got a couple of boards laying around. We have our new reception, where you can find: stickers free mags We have our […]
Continue readingMaking it easier to join the Progressing Group Lesson
Based upon feedback from you, and from the coaches, we’ve decided to lower the barrier to entry to the progressing class. From now on, you will need to perform a roll in, into a flat bank, unassisted, to be able to come to the progressing group. We hope the changes will make coming to skate […]
Continue reading411 Video Magazine on Film Fridays
The renaissance of Skateboarding in the 1990’s. The back catalogue of 411 Video Magazine is showing at our skatepark in Copeland Park in chronological order. 411vm was created in 1993 by Josh Friedberg and Steve Douglas. 411vm was a bi-monthly video series that gave the skateboarding world frequent access to footage of professional skateboarders, and […]
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Does a skateboard have a front and a back
We often get asked this question because we use popsicle decks at our lessons. The shape of popsicles, pictured, are often almost symmetrical, and as such it’s difficult to tell the difference at a glance. The reason for popsicles being almost symmetrical is to make it easier to do tricks off the nose, or skate […]
Continue readingOutsiders and Friends pop up launch event
On the 1st December we welcome Clown Skateboards with their first UK Pop up, Outsiders and Friends, which will be opening on the first floor at the skatepark at Copeland Park. We’re super excited as we will be releasing a limited run of Clown Skateboards x @copelands_sp decks. We’ll also be welcoming @thegrovediy who will […]
Continue readingPalestine Solidarity Fundraiser
On the 19th November we opened our doors for the Palestine Solidarity Fundraiser. It was a great day of raising awareness of the situation in the middle east, and raising funds for good causes like @skate_pall and @medicalaidpal Here’s more from @rampstampldn: β€οΈ As sports that intertwine lifestyle and community, those of us who […]
Continue readingCopelands Skatepark Reopens in Unit 2B Copeland Park, Peckham
The skatepark is now open in Unit 2B, Copeland Park, and it now feels like a real skatepark rather than just a room with a ramp in it! We have open skate sessions from Thursday to Sunday. Please book open skate sessions on the website. We used about 70 PZ2 drill bits, I stepped on […]
Continue readingWe’re moving Copelands to unit 2B
Our Copeland Park location will be closing for the first couple of weeks of November while we move to bigger space just next door. Here’s theΒ backstory; we were due to move into our space when we were offered a larger space at Copeland Park. Unfortunately we couldn’t move in to the larger straight away […]
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