Skateboard Scotland organised the annual Scottish Street Championships on the 18th of January 2020 along with their annual AGM. The event was held in the great new The Loading Bay Skatepark in Glasgow. If you’ve not been already get along and check it out as it is a great spot …
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War of the Thistles 2019 report
Skateboard Scotland have been running the War of the Thistles for 19 years now! This year we were fortunate enough to be able to secure a sponsorship agreement with Vans so there was more money than usual to give out to the riders that made it to the event. A …
Scottish Street Champs 2019 report
Skateboard Scotland organised the annual Scottish street champs on the 19th of January 2019. It was meant to happen in December but this is skateboarding so it didn’t. Not the warmest time of the year to hang out in the Freezer that is Unit 23’s skatepark in Dumbarton but certainly beats …
Scottish Mini-Ramp Champs & Clan Game of Skate 2018 report
Over the weekend of the 8th and 9th of September Glasgow’s one and only Clan Skates organised a celebration of their 30 years in business by working with the nice people at the Glasgow transport museum to host the Scottish Mini Ramp champs and a massive game of skate. Skateboard …
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War of the Thistles 2018 report
After battling the “Beast from the East” and having to cancel a War of the Thistles (WOTT) weekend for the first time in its 14 year history, Skateboard Scotland managed to run one of the best WOTT events for the last few years. There was a great turn out from …
War of the Thistles 2017 Report
Skateboard Scotland’s War of the Thistles event is now in its’ 12th year! Time flies when you are having fun. This year the event returned from a long hiatus to Dumbarton’s Unit 23 skatepark and back to the staple of Aberdeen’s Transition Extreme Skatepark. We kicked off with Aberdeen on …
M74 Skatepark project video
The guys over at Glasgow Urban Sports have put together a great short film explaining the aims of the M74 Skatepark project in Glasgow. Raydale Dower and Toby Paterson explain the aims of the project and the location for it, here’s hoping that funding etc can all come in to place …
All This Mayhem – Tas & Ben Pappas Documentary
If you’ve been skating since the early 1990’s you’ll be familiar with the names Tas and Ben Pappas, two brothers from Melbourne, Australia who dominated the vert scene at that time. What you may or may not know is what became of them, this documentary “All This Mayhem” (made by …
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‘Overcast’ by Iron Giraffe
‘Overcast’ by Iron Giraffe contains skating in various parts of Scotland. Filmed / edited by Paul McConnach with skating by Adam Paris, Jamie Bolland, Paul Silvester, Tom Shimmin, Rauri, Ross McSherry, Danny Jack, Daniel Nicholas, Kerr McLaughlan, Colin Adam, Mark ‘T-Bag’ Murray, Dave Lane, Keith Allan and more. You can pick up …
Clan Skates 25th Anniversary…
Clan Skate 25th Anniversary