Saturday, 18 April 2009

Details of shut down

as you all know, in march we had to hand in our 3 notice to the landlord to close down the skatepark as the funds are completly out, and infact, we have been losing money and incuring more and more dept each month as there is simply not enough people using the place on a regular bassis to pay the rent, let alone all the other bills and rates. unfortunatly, while the events and all nighter have been a great success and raised a fair bit of money, it still isnt enough along with the normal weekly money to cover everything plus pay towards dept which keeps getting more each month.
i have been looking into funding and possibly running the park as a sort of charity thing, non profit type of business (which we have never really made profit) but there is loads of in's and out's and by the time all the paper work has gone thru it could be too late. i have a couple more options to look at before the final shut down date of 1st june so hopefuly i can pull sumat out of the hat and save the ripped for a 4th time.
i will now post updates every week on the progress and make sure you are all informed of any changes that might accure. but take it as, we are defo shutting down and try to use it as much as possible and spread the word, try to bring new people down, try to get ya mates into it. anything anyone can do to help will really be appreciated as there is not much time left.
for now
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009

All Nighter footage

a massive thanks to everyone that turned out and showed support at the all nighter we had on saturday. it was the fullest and probaly the best all night event we have thrown, so BIG UP!!
some serious shredding went down from nearly everyone there, especialy from joe howard from the ripped team that got some uterly jaw dropping tricks down on the big wall ride, and manhead with his effortless attack on the death box extension nailing trick after trick like it was the easyist ramp in the world to skate
thanks to ben and co from sidewalk mag for coming thru and getting some dope footage again!!
check it bellow, featuring alex burrell, joxa, gnarly matt, daryl nobbs, joe howard and manhead (josh young)
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Snap of the year


Joe Daniels snapped wrist
big up mate, i know how much it hurt so i aint gonna take piss (this time lol)
hope its fixed up and ya back skating soon mate
got a free session for ya when ya ready!!!
to all the kids that come down, this is why we suggest wrist pads
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Dont Forget

all nighter this saturday, 11th april
nuff carnage and comps plus our first ever manny comp outside in the new ghetto park area
tell everyone ya know to come down as its gonna be a proper heavy session
plus we will be filming prity much all night to go towards our grim up north dvd out later this year

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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

caught in the croosfire, grim up north review

massive thanks to everyone that turned out to grim up north 3
you can now read the caught in the crossfire review of the day plus check the sik little edit to go with it by following the link bellow
enjoy
shout outs to phil, claire and ben for getting some sik footage

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Tuesday, 17 March 2009

All Nighter, saturday 11th april

for anyone that was or wasnt at grim up north and wants to get another event session in before we possibly shut, then get ya sen to our next and maybe last all nighter at the ripped skatepark.
theres no event sponcers at the min but we should be able to muster up a few prizes for the death box and wall ride comps and as we havent done it for ages we will be hosting a death match at midnight (strickly for nutters only)
live djs
emcee's
under 16s and over 16s game of skate
bonfire
saturday 11th april
7pm till 10am
£10 entry (as usual, free entry for ladies)
13+ only
b.y.o.b. but must be 18+
please click image bellow for full size flyer


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link to grim up north footage on mpora

filmed and edited by ben @ sidewalk
featuring joe and myles from the ripped team,
moggins, joxa, little alex, jay and alex (lovenskate)
and a few other rippers
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