War Of The Roses!!!

This years WOTR is again to be hosted at The Works Skatepark, Leeds and Ramp City, Blackpool over the weekend of February 20th and 21st.

Make sure you get yourselves over for one or both of these days if you can.

Tech Deck 'Design and Build' Comp

Ever thought your local park was missing something? Or thought about what you would change if you could? Maybe you've even thought about sessioning that same park with some of the UK's top skaters? Well Tech Deck are giving you the chance to fulfill all of your wishes with relative ease and a pretty minimal amount of work on your part.

Tech Deck are giving you the opportunity to win a new obstacle for your local skatepark, along with a private session for you and your mates with members of the Vans UK team.

The Tech Deck 'Design and Build' competition simply requires you to submit a design for a new obstacle or possible change to your existing park - these can be simple sketches, models or even mashed potato sculptures if you see fit - they will be judged on creative merit, practicality and skateability - so there's no point in drawing a 30 metre high Mega Jump or something equally as daft!

The top ten designs will then go onto the next stage: You will then need to build a model of your obstacle with the provided Tech Deck goodies, and film a little video section of you and your mates sessioning it. Points will be awarded on the basis of the quality of your obstacle, impressiveness of the tricks performed and any general tomfoolery involved.

Judges are set to include: Marc Churchill, Ben Powell and Nic Powley.

Please send your initial images and any queries via e-mail too: nic@backroomoperations.com

Make sure to Include with your entry - Your name and age, the name and location of your chosen park, your contact telephone number and the image of your design. The closing date for the first stage is 30/01/2010, with the finalists notified shortly after.

Get your creative thinking cap on now and start submitting your ideas!

UK Mini Ramp Champs Footage

Click below for footage of the UK Mini Ramp Champs held at X-Site on 14th and 15th November.

Mini Ramp 1

Mini Ramp 2

Mini Ramp 3

Again a big thank you to all involved in organising the event and making it happen as well as to everyone who supported the event.

UK MINI RAMP CHAMPS

This years UK Mini ramp champs will once again be held here at X-Site on SUNDAY 15TH NOVEMBER.

Unsponsored and Sponsored comps 11.00am - 6.00pm

£5.00 ALL DAY EVERYONE

Come along skate or just watch the best UK ramp skaters battle it out for the title of UK MINI RAMP CHAMP!!!

A Big Thank You

The Blank Canvas Street Art Festival has now finished and after a long, hard couple of weeks everything went off well and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, whether it be through the workshops, looking at the exhibition or generally just coming along and having a good skate.

We would like to thank everyone involved in making the event happen and those people involved in the SEAS festival as well for using us as a venue for the performance of 'Monday In The Sun'.

A big thank you to Tim and the street artists from Bristol for coming and painting the park, to Stu and Lilli from Lovenskate for organising the screen printing workshop, to all the volunteers who put endless hours into cleaning and painting the place before the event and during it and a big thank you to everyone who came in support of the park over the week.

We hope to put similar things on in the near future. For photos from the week check out the blog at: http://www.xsiteskatepark.blogspot.com/

BLANK CANVAS ART EXHIBITION

Opening times

During the 'Blank Canvas' Arts festival the skatepark will be open as follows:

Saturday 26th September - Open As Normal - Normal Session Charges Apply
Sunday 27th September - Open As Normal - Normal Session Charges Apply
Monday 28th September - Friday 2nd October - 3.00pm - 8.00pm - £3.00 per Session EVERYONE, restricted skate access due to performances and workshops/weather.

Please call in advance if unsure. Tel: 01754 762579

BLANK CANVAS ART EXHIBITION

26th SEPTEMBER - 4th OCTOBER

X-Site Skatepark is hosting a week long arts festival with a number of workshops and demonstrations taking place.

The event runs from Saturday 26th September until Sunday 4th October. This event is running alongside the Skegness International SEAS festival.

Saturday 26th September will provide a number of free workshops and performances from a wide range of artistic forms. Some of these workshops will also run throughout the week.

On Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th September 9.00 pm - 10.00pm X-Site will host pefromances of 'Monday In The Sun'. This dance performance explores the nature of male friendship. This event is a FREE TICKETED EVENT and OVER 16's ONLY. Tickets available from X-Site Skatepark. To reserve tickets please email: lee@xsiteskatepark.co.uk

Saturday 3rd October will see the skatepark become a gallery space for a number of different artists to showcase their work that has been produced in the build up to, and during the Blank Canvas.

Due to the Blank Canvas taking place the skatepark will have altered session times.

For more info about the other performances and exhibitions happening around Skegness during the SEAS festival please visit: http://www.skegnessinternational.com/

For more information about the rest of the programme of events at X-Site please check out the blog at: http://www.xsiteskatepark.blogspot.com/

Tee & Board Design Comp

X-Site Skatepark plays host to "The Blank Canvas Arts Festival" from 26th September. X-Site and Lovenskate have come together to hold our first Tee and board design competition, please see the poster for full details.

For more info clicky here!

Keep checking back to this page for more info regarding other aspects of The Blank Canvas

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Summer series 2009

Mini ramp & street comp - 27th june. Plus the uk bones team.

Plaza comp -25th july. Plus the uk Venture.

Game of S.K.A.T.E - 15th August. Plus the Motive team.

A BIG THANKYOU.

Thanks to everyone who made the effort to buy raffle tickets for the Gt. Ormand Street Fundraiser. 

We managed to raise over £300 thanks to all of you.  Give yourselves a pat on the back, you deserve it!

WAR OF THE ROSES 2010

The Works, Leeds - Saturday 20th February

Ramp City, Blackpool - Sunday 21st February