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Tag your tricks & feature on our skills pages

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll have seen a new part of our website called skateboard skills. We have now added all the beginner skateboard skills so you’ll know what skills need to do to graduate to the progressing group. On these pages I’ve added the opportunity for you to add clips of […]

Adjusting trucks on your new skateboard

If you’ve read our post on buying a beginner skateboard, you may be the proud owner of a new skateboard (hopefully you’ve got it from your local skate shop). You’ve used our skateboard sizing tool to make sure it’s the right size for you before you bought it. So what next? Even if you’ve chosen […]

43 mini ramp tricks at age 43

So it was my birthday on Monday, and to mark the occasion Dean suggested I do 43 tricks for each year of my life. This is following Tony Hawk’s video where he did 50 tricks at aged 50. I agreed and Dean kindly offered to document them for me and you can find them below […]

Winter skateboarding birthday party at Charlton skatepark

Art the skate coach’s assistant riding stance riding stance charlton lake :) Skateboarding birthday party cake Art in his new t-shirt wet bums ahoy One of our students had his 7th birthday in November and desperately wanted a skateboarding birthday party where he could show his friends what he'd learnt at skate school. Unfortunately due [...] Continue reading

New skateboard friendly pump track in Bexley

Update 14.3.21 The pump track has still not opened due to the pandemic. Skateparks are due to reopen the 29th March. Assume it will also be the case for pump tracks. Build of new skateboard pump track in Bexley due to complete on 14th December 2020. Yes, something to look forward to after lockdown. We […]

Adult beginner skateboard lessons available during lockdown

Adult beginner lesson kickturn on skateboard

So after poring over the guidance from Skateboard England I discovered that we can coach adults during lockdown. Officially skateparks are closed so Greenwich park would make a delightful venue to teach you beginner skills, like how to carve, slalom and kick-turn. We can come further afield, across South, East and Central London, if you […]

Charlton closed. Private lessons available at Folkestone Gardens, Deptford.

charlton skatepark still closed due to covid19

Fences have been pushed down by riders but Charlton skatepark remains officially closed despite government relaxing restrictions on outdoor activity. It seems odd, with many organised training sessions of football, a contact sport, going on at Charlton park that a non-contact sport like skateboarding is still not permitted. You can see the Skateboard England guidance […]

Home education group skateboarding lesson in Charlton skatepark

home education skateboarding lesson - rolling in

At the end of 2019 we were approached by a mum keen to run skateboarding lessons for a group of children in home education. We duly obliged and set up a regular Tuesday afternoon session for them at Charlton Park. We provided skateboards, pads and helmets where required and we had a range of […]

A skateboard lesson at Whitegrounds skatepark in London Bridge

At the beginning of the month I ran a private lesson with London based professionals Justin and Lingling who are in their mid 20s. We met at Whitegrounds skatepark which is local to them. Whitegrounds is a street style concrete park with plenty of ledges, banks and irregular transitions with some challenging lines. It is […]

Skateboard lessons at Folkestone gardens skatepark

This weekend I ran a private skateboard lesson for Isaac, aged 8, at Folkestone gardens skatepark in Deptford. Folkestone gardens skatepark has a lot of transition, and is bowled out at one end. There are more street features at the other with a rail down some stairs. It’s a great park for learning to skateboard. We […]

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