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Week 1 Homework; confidence pushing with lead foot balance drills

To build confidence pushing, you can spend 5 minutes each day at home doing this leading foot drill on your skateboard. Working on carpet, place your front foot (you already know your stance) on the board over the bolts in push position (refer to Standing on your board). Now lift the back foot off the […]

Printable Beginner Progress Tracker Card

We have our online learning system for tracking your progress through the beginner skills, but we have recently created our Beginner Progress Tracker Card so that we can keep track and stamp the card as students progress during beginner lessons at Copelands skatepark. It’s a bit like a coffee shop loyalty card. We appreciate some […]

Copelands Festive Skate Jam

It is the Pexmas (Read Peckham x Christmas) Fair weekend 13th and 14th December and we will be open for festive fun and games; skateboards, drinks, music, goodies, and giveaways. We’ve got 10% off in the shop, and we’ve still got some of the 50 Free Clown In Action complete skateboards available when you book […]

£99 Learn To Skate Package with skateboard included

£99 Learn to skateboard package skateboard included

£99 6 week course package Our £99 Learn to Skateboard course at Copeland Park includes: 6 weekly group lessons a complete skateboard. We have this offer available on certain beginner lessons during the week. Please choose the date you want your first lesson, and you will be given an option to book the 6 week […]

Copelands Skateshop launch

We’ve had a few decks on the wall at Copelands for some time now, but we’ve decided it’s time to go the whole hog, and stock the shop properly. As well as the complete skateboards, we will be carrying decks, trucks, wheels and bearings. We’re in the process of getting the display cabinet up to […]

Summer Skate Jam and more at the Peckham Festival

Peckham festival school of skate copelands skatepark

We are happy to announce our plans for the Peckham Festival on the 13th – 15th September! We have King Ramps coming through to bolt their flat bank onto the skatepark, extending the park out into the Copeland Park Courtyard. All weekend we will have Tombola (everyone’s a winner baby) Rum bar DJs (playing vinyl) […]

Free lessons at the Southbank reunion

On Saturday 17th August the Southbank reunion will be taking place at Southbank! There will be music, drinks, graf and prizes for tricks… We will be running some free taster lessons to kick off proceedings at 11am, and 11.30. We will cover the cornerstone skills: Standing Falling Pushing Carving We will provide everything you need […]

Skateboarding for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

We had a student approach us to undertake skateboarding as part of their their Edinburgh Award scheme at the Bronze level. In his role as Head Coach, Coach Stu agreed to assess the students progress. Aim of the physical part of the award The aim is as follows: To inspire young people to achieve greater […]

Olympic Skateboarding skateparks – Street vs Park disciplines

man squeegees the olympic street skatepark

You may be watching the skateboarding in the Olympics and be wondering what is the difference between ‘Street’ and ‘Park’ disciplines. We’re going to try and answer that question for you. Skateboarding ‘Street’ Whilst this event is called Street, the event doesn’t really take place in the street. Instead a ‘Street’ style skatepark is designed […]

Go Skate Day 21st June 2024

This Friday we will be celebrating International Go Skate Day on Friday the 21st June with support from Karma Skateboards. We will first have some free beginner lessons 5pm – 6pm. First come first serve. Please book asap. We will be showing local skate scene video MAYDAY at 7.30pm. We will have a jam format […]

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