AK47 // Ben Woodhouse

The trout comes through with 47 seconds in this brand new alley kats visual shooting you in the face...

Apologies from lack of updates from me, busy busy heavy stuff.

Funk Field

Alley Kats Funkfield edit...

Can I have a large meteor please...

...I still need to give the hot dog stuffed crust a try though.....

A tree

Spot the board...

If you get a frisbee stuck in a tree, dont throw your board up to try and get it out...

DANIELS BIRTHDAY SKATE

Kats

Alley Kats going at it hard....

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Leap

Danny goes big....

Feline Persuasion

Here is the footage from the trip to Ashford that was blogged about the other day. One day i may film a trick, some radical stuff in this though...

Skatehouse

It rained so we headed in search of some sun...

We had a skate at this spot which is pretty rad as spots go....

 The weather was looking a bit ominous again, we had heard about a pace called the skatehouse in Lewes so thought we would check it out...

The place is awesome full concrete bowl which is beautiful to skate, if you get a chance i recommend you go skate it and support..

 They also have a massive expanse out the back which they are planning on adding a street course to.

Grosvenor & Hilbert Lottery Grant

Now I may have been hiding under a rock, or it may have completely passed me by, until I saw a tweet mentioning that the TWBC has been awarded funding by Heritage Lottery Fund to develop detailed proposals for the future of Grosvenor & Hilbert Park. This amount being 2.7 million.

I had heard a small rumour that the skatepark was going to have some improvments made to it, so eagely clicked on the link to the plans only to scroll down looking for mentions of the skatepark. Unsuprisingly i found the skatepark on the drawings, looked at the legend to be met with the text 'Existing skatepark to be retained'. 

So the skatepark has been overlooked in the current multi million pound redevelopment.

 Now i understand that the skatepark was probably one of the last pieces in the park to be redeveloped, but look at what we where left with. Gravity came into create the new park, which was great news as they are well established in the park building market. However as I understand there was nothing in the budget for a new tarmac surface, so the metal ramps where deposited on top of the old tarmac surface. Leaving the park uneven and where metal should supposedly meet concrete, graps causing a danger for us skateboarders and killing off the flow of the park.

If this was bad enough the ramps almost looked like they hadnt been completed with metal edges leaving lips around the side of the blocks where there shouldnt be any, therefore hindering any sort of manual on a manual pad or grind. Now go to the majority of newly developed parks in the country and you will not see as much of a shambles for a 'newly developed' skatepark. Especially considering that the new developments of skateparks in the contry the standard is high, it appears TWBC is behind.

I guess we have pullled the short straw and very much been over looked, especially considering the large budget and the majority of other areas getting an overhaul. Are us as skateboarders just not worthy of being included in these developments?

There is an online survey that you can put your opinions of development HERE

Another Clip

After yesterdays awesome mosher clip, here is another clip this time a line at the old park with a trout with the binliner.....

Mosher Quads

Here is quite possibly the greatest clip to hit the internet in a long time, mosher quads on the mini....

Trashford

We headed out over the bank holiday weekend, customary bunny shot

 We cruised on down to Ashford skatepark..

 It has a full pipe which is pretty interesting...

Grandad full on knocked himself out, his eyelids where flickering madly..

 Daniel gets excited by Subway

 Dead Bird

 Barcelona...

 The Daniel had a mare in the amazing heat...

 Then onto the next spot these waves where proper fun to skate...

 Chilling session at the end of the day....

A Garden Tour

You have probably all visited the Garden but here is a tour of it if you have not... (im thinking about starting a career in TV presenting)

A brief tour of The Garden from Santiago Pilgrim on Vimeo.

After All Those Years

Friday double post for you all, Will Herman has worked on this piece of magic/madness and it is available for your viewing now. Check this out well worth a watch....

Daniel Face

The Daniel keeps on cropping up on the blog, we agreed that if he did this the blog would be renamed danielface for a week so here it is....

For all those fans of clips other than the Daniel dont worry i have a few gems.

Save Southbank

Southbank the unofficial home of British skateboarding is under threat, always a start off point for missions into the city. I do moan about this spot sometimes but secretly love it. 

Head over to the site specifically set up for details on information of how you can help save it from being demolished when they redevlop the area to put in some more coffee shops by clicking the image below....

Also fill out the official Southbank survey, they are bragging that they have had loads of positive feedback so do your bit and make sure that changes. The questions are cleverly done so that it works out that you cant give too bad a feedback but when you get to the end you can fill out a text area letting them know how you feel.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY

More Daniel

We may as well change the name of the blog to Danielface, here is another blog clip of him......