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Skateboard Scotland ran the End of Winter Jam at the Transgression Park on the last Sunday in February. Most of the board first decided to have a wee session in the last of the winter sunshine at the Newton Grange skate park. It was a fun wee sesh and wee …
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Skateboard Scotland got asked to attend the Skateboarding World Championships at the Kimberly Diamond Cup in South Africa. The request from the WSF (World Skateboarding Federation) was to run a coaching clinic which is something that Skateboard Scotland and Radworx know how to do after having created the Skateboard Coach …
Skateboard Scotland have been running the War of the Thistles for 10 years!!! WOTT? I hear you say! Pretty unbelievable we all agree. It doesn’t seem like 10 years since the first War between Dumbarton’s Unit and Dundee’s factory in 2006! The event has been fun every year and continues …
Sunday’s Bristo Square turnout got bit of coverage by the Edinburgh News: http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/skateboarders-mark-end-of-era-at-bristo-square-1-3732828
Bristo Sq in Edinburgh has been the hub of Scottish Street skating since the 80s. It has certainly seen better days and has suffered a healthy grinding and beating. However it’s upcoming destruction along with the redevelopment of the area by Edinburgh University will be a massive loss to the …
Skateboard Scotland organised the first ever Scottish Street Championships at the New Kaos Indoor Concrete Skatepark in East Kilbride on the 13th of September 2014. As with most indoor events in Scotland you are never really sure who is going to bother to show up. But we were all stoked …
Here is an article from the Scotsman yesterday: Skatepark users slam’ shoddy’ redesign Users of the park have complained about the state of the features. Picture: Neil Hanna Published on Tuesday 5 March 2013 12:00 A war of words has broken out over the redesign of the world-famous Livingston Skatepark. …
Skateboard Scotland worked with Focus Skateshops to bring the Scottish Premier of ‘Bones Brigade – An Autobiography’ to Edinburgh. As with everything involving Skateboarding we could not confirm the date until the week before the actual premier although, to be honest last minute is probably better for skateboarders anyway. Not …
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If anyone out there is looking to a get a concrete park built here is another potential funding stream during the course of next year: Upgrade of sport and physical activity projects to get Scots active ahead of 2014 A new fund to build or upgrade existing local sport and …
Skateboard Scotland took a minibus (half) full of Scottish heads to the 5th VANS UKSA NATIONAL SKATEBOARDING CHAMPIONSHIPS held at the XC in Hemel Hempstead. As usual the standard was ridiculously high with established names battling it out alongside young up and comers such as Charlie Birch, Salar Kooshki and …
