my youngest starts school!

daisy's first day at school today..... the teachers have no idea whats about to hit them!!

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New Job

Not been posting much lately as I've just started a new job. Travelling to Croydon again, thought those days had gone but here I am a again! Oh well a new challenge is always good!

The Hawk Show

Sorry with the start of a new job I never got round to putting this on the bog. Anyway the show was amazing, all the skaters ripped and some of the stuff that went down was just beyond. Here's a few pics and a slideshow of more below....

Quiksilver Tony Hawk Show

So I have my ticket and going to the Quiksilver show on Brighton seafront tomorrow. Can't wait if Barcelona is anything to go by....


Big question now is have our attempted messages got to him to come and skate Shoreham first!

Daisy goes skating....

my youngest has her first stand on a board, even managed to get her to roll for a bit un-aided. give it a year and she will be rolling with the best of them!

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longboarding

after a good skate at Stockwell Road, Brixton we headed up to Crystal Palace for a bit of longboarding in the park. weather was damn hot so chilling under the trees at every opportunity was definitely the order of the day!

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Hawk still learning....

360 kickflip to rock fakie...... and it his age!

More Shoreham

it doesn't seem to matter when you go to Shoreham Skatepark, someone will be ripping!


Daryl Nobbs over the hip....
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Bond Bug

Parked in Sainsburys car park..... or is it an abandoned shopping trolley!

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Hire car

now most people when they hire a car end up with something like a Fiat Punto. not my neighbours brother. he comes over to visit every few months and what does he hire for a runabout? yep, an R8!

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Great skate vid....

Just saw this on the Skate and Annoy forum. Its amusing and some of the skating rips!!

Skirdoosh from Steven Reeves on Vimeo.

Why Trainspotters are twats

Watch this video. This is why I cannot stand spotters. they seem to lose all comprehension of common sense when they get remotely near a train! The thing is, if he had of actually been hit, no thought would have gone to the driver, the police and undertakers, or the poor sods who have to clean up the train and repair it afterwards. Idiots like this should have no idea how dangerous they are, and have no regard for us poor gits that have to work on the railway every day.....

Shoreham's new bowl opens at last!

Spent saturday at the new Shoreham bowl, which could well be 'The' best bowl in the UK. Unfortunately to a nagging back I didnt have a skate but instead spent the day behind my camera getting some pics of all the action. The bowl is in a clover formation with the top section being at 6ft deep, with one of those sections being a speed pocket which almost goes to vert for building up speed. the bottom section is 8ft deep to vert and is a proper circular bowl, where as the top 2 bowls do have some straight wall. It has proper US sourced pool coping and neat challenges like a death box and tile stamp to give it that proper 'swimming pool' feel.
The end result is superb, everyone who skated it raved about it and couldnt wait to get in for more. There was some great skating going down at the opening event and big credit to Jelly, Steve and the rest of the action group who got this sorted after many years of campaigning and planning, and also to the local Council for having the balls to build something really special rather than throwing some metal quarter pipes on a strip of tarmac (Peacehaven take note!!!).






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Stockwell Road Brixton

Had my first visit to the skatepark at Stockwell Road in brixton yesterday, and what a park! If you haven't seen it then basically its an old 70's park with a very mellow snake run into mellow bowls with a mix of transitions and other bits around the rest of the park. Whats good though is that unlike most 70's parks its been given a nice smooth coat of crete, and it makes it so fast and enjoyable. no worrying about trying to pull tricks or hit coping, just roll in, cruise about and get as much speed as you can while trying to avoid everyone else. no its not technical but it is such a blast! Sorry there's not pictures, I was too busy enjoying the skating but I promise I'll grab some snaps on my next visit.

Cheese eating surrender monkeys

Just got back from a week away to a Centerparcs in France with my entire family. Almost wrecked by the damn French Ferry workers calling a wildcat strike on Good Friday! Fair enough if your jobs crap then make a stand but is a bit of warning to the poor down trodden non ferry workers trying to go on their well earned once a year holiday too much to ask??
Anyway we bailed onto the Eurotunnel and that's it for me, I'm never going by sea again. How easy is the tunnel. Turn up, drive on, chill for 35 minutes then straight on to the road. No tight stairways, no crap food, no puking kids, no 'not actually that cheap' booze and perfume...suits me!
So keep on with your strikes Frenchies and soon there will be no ferry industry left!

Nike ad

Loving this April Fools ad from Nike. I know they are hated by many because they are thought to be trying to rule the world of sport, especially in things like skating, but frankly its never worried me much and I've always found their trainers to be really good so I'm posting this anyway!

When Rad came to Crawley

Back when I was in my teens Rad magazine was The British skate mag. Tim Leighton Boyce was the Editor and one sunny sunday he came down to Crawley to do a feature on the local scene. I never got my face in but some good mates at the time did. Just check out how quiet Crawley town centre is! That's a sunday during the day, bet you'll never see Crawley town centre that quiet now, with skaters outnumbering everyone else!

The car

So this is my 1987 Opel Manta. Its heavily modified but hasnt seen the road since 2005, funnily enough not long after finding out my daughter Daisy was on the way....
Anyway its running a c20xe 16v Vauxhall engine on QED throttle bodies. Its got Willwood brakes, LSD, uprated suspension, 16" Team dynamic wheels, lots of body mods, lots of interior changes and.... well lets be honest, its not got much left on it that hasnt been changed or altered in some way. original it is not.

Hopefully I can get the engine rebuilt this year (knackered pistion rings) and get it back on the road by 2011. Apart from a few runs out in 2005 this thing has lived in my garage for the last 10 years now, the rebuild started in August 2000!