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 …
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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 …
War of the Thistles 2015 report
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 …
War of the Thistles 2014 report
Skateboard Scotland organised the 9th War of the Thistles event to be held in Aberdeen’s Transition Extreme and North Berwick’s The Space over the May day holiday weekend. As you all probably know by now War of the Thistles is not your standard skate comp with rules, scores and placing’s. …
War of the Thistles 2013 Report
Better late than never, here’s a wee report on this years War of the Thistles weekend! Big props to all of the sponsors which supported/helped make this event what is was this year: Skateboard Scotland Monster Bawbags Entropy Concreate Skull Candy Heathen Unabomber Indy Anti-hero Bones Sidewalk A third Foot …
War of the Thistles 2013
War of the Thistles 2013, Saturday 4th May at The Space in North Berwick, Sunday 5th of May at Transition in Aberdeen. Here’s a video clip from last year’s craziness!
War of the Thistles 2012
The event once again went off this year. Massive Thanks goes out to the sponsors who enable the event to happen every year: Skateboard Scotland Osiris Shoes Monster Energy BawBags Transition Extreme Trangression Park Death Skateboards Skull Candy Heathen Unabomber Creature Spitfire Independent Sidewalk A Third Foot Free Skateboards Matix …
Superdead Footage from Their Trip to the the Thistles
Here is some footage from the all round good folks at Superdead from their trip up north the other weekend. Superdead Skateboards – "The Royal Shredding" Weekend 2011 from Two Distribution on Vimeo.
War of the Thistles 2011 Write up
War of the Thistles has now become the start of the main comp season in the UK with folk travelling from all over the country to try and win some fine prizes. This year was no exception and the event was once again organised by Skateboard Scotland and was proudly …