Blog - School of Skate

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 […]

Showing London Calling: A Whole Era Showed Up

The all new London Calling documentary filmed and edited by Winstan Whitter of Rollin’ Through the Decades fame, comes to Copelands Skatepark on Friday May 31st. This film documents last year’s event celebrating the London scene of the 1970’s. There will be a free skate session on the night, starting 6pm. We’ll stop skating during […]

First Birthday of the Skatepark at Copelands

It’s our first birthday! To celebrate we’ve arranged a bunch of stuff for you: Free 30 minute taster lessons We’ll be providing 20 free taster lesson places at 11am. Please bring your friends, (ask them to pre-book). Skate yoga from Slacker We have been running some yoga sessions at Copelands over the last couple of […]

Death Skateboards ’13’ premieres at Copeland Park

@deathskateboards presents: •••1️⃣3️⃣••• (the best 13 minutes of your life) A film by Dan Cates & Lee Dainton. LONDON PREMIERE Thursday 11/4/24 @copelands_sp indoor skatepark 2 minutes from Peckham Rye station. Death skateboards are the oldest UK based skateboard company and have been busy documenting some of the best of the UK skate scene. We […]

Copelands Spring Skate Festival

Update – Thanks for coming down – please follow our Copelands Instagram to see some of the action. 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 […]

New 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 […]

Making 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 […]

411 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 […]

How does a skateboard work?

Everything you wanted to know about your skateboard but were afraid to ask. It's that time of year when you may have got a skateboard for Christmas. We're going to show you around your new skateboard, and discuss how the skateboard works. Knowing the components of your skateboard, and how these work together is key [...] Continue reading

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 […]

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