Dan Cintra’s Little Park Piece
This is a new video by Dan Cintra with some recent footage of some local skaters at the PumpCage under the Mancy Way and at Central Skatepark. Nice work. Unicyclists?!
Archive for February, 2007
Lucky Dip Jam plus Party
| February 18, 2007 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 11:59 pm |
Get your wheels down to the Central Skatepark on Sunday evening for the Lucky Dip Jam, £5 entry.
Followed by the Brittanys Beard Bash party - Bands,Booze, Susperstar DJ’s and other nonsense, £2 entry.
Danny’s Skulls Video
Checkout Danny McCourts Skulls Vid with some old footage of some old Manchester spots.
Nice Intro and Outro Danny!
M.E.N. Article about Big Sesh at the PumpCage
The Manchester Evening News newspaper today has an article on the Big Sesh at the PumpCage which happened on Saturday. It is a really positive piece with some great quotes about the need for the extension to the skate park and about how great skateboarding is - nice one author Mike Keegan! Here are some snippets:
The gathering at the Manchester Skatepark was designed to show authorities how much support there is for an extension that would allow hundreds more enthusiasts to hone their tricks and skills.
“It’s a hugely popular sport in Manchester and our park is one of the best in the country. We attract visitors from all over Britain and if we want to accommodate everyone, we have to expand.”
“It’s a fantastic asset to the city and provides a service to children I think would be lost to society without it. The park needs extending so more people can take advantage of it.”
“Manchester is the skating capital of the north, but although this is a great park, it’s just not big enough - and hopefully today’s events will show that,”
Read it on the M.E.N. website here and leave comments on the article here - unfortunately there have been some negative comments and criticisms, so lets show them how much the extension plan is supported.
Reminder: Big Sesh at the PumpCage
Remember to get down to the PumpCage under the Mancunian Way on Saturday at 12pm to support plans to get the park extension built. The effort is being led by Dan Mukka, Sean Lomax, Adam Ahmed, Tom Mcgiveron, Ben Sharratt and Pete Smithson (all under 18) with the help of John Haines and VictorX from Projekts MCR. See their MySpace page here.
Announcing A.S.B.O.
SkateMCR, Manchester’s new skate collective, presents in association with Cast, TWO, NOTE, and Projekts MCR:
A.S.B.O., April’s Skate Bonanza Ohyeah!
Each weekend in April there will be a skate comp at a different venue - the PumpCage under the Mancunian Way, the mini-ramp at Cast, Central Skatepark and at the Gasworks in the City Centre.
Teams will compete in these categories: over 16, under 16, sponsored and a special group: MCR Shops. The winner of the MCR Shops will win the ashes of 4 decks, one from each shop!
Skaters will enter as teams of 5 with only 3 taking part in each comp. Points will be awarded by independent judges at each comp and totalled at the final. Prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place overall in each category.
These are the details:
Sunday 8th April will be at Central Skatepark from 5pm, entry £2
Sunday 15th April will be at Cast from 5pm with a unique tag match comp, entry £2.
Sunday 22nd of April, meet outside NOTE at 1pm for an afternoon of street chaos.
Sunday 29th April will be the final at the Pump Cage from 12noon, entry £2.
There will be opportunity to donate to SkateMCR at each comp.
More details for each comp will be coming soon, so watch this space!.
Critical Mass Protest
| February 23, 2007 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Critical Mass is a bunch of people who ride their bikes around town on the last friday of every month. They do it for various reasons from celebrating the bicycle to protesting against the lack of cycle facilities on Manchesters roads.
Even though they are mostly cyclists, they welcome skaters to come along too (see their info page)! So to skate around the City Centre as a protest against the byelaws, join in and meet up at the Central Library at 6pm on Feb 23rd.
Critical Mass happens every month, so check the calendar on this website for the next one.
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