Slamm Jamm Photos

Promax on the railThanks to Dave Bell, the park staff and all the sponsors for another amazing weekend at Rampworx in the form of the Slamm Jamm. The pictures are starting to come through. So far I only have my photos from the skating on Friday, but keep watching for the updates that will be coming soon which will include both Saturday’s skating and the mad night out in Liverpool that is really where the Slamm Jamm takes off…

Old photos hit the gallery

OK, so it was a LONG time ago, but I finally dug out some photos from the 2005 British Championships. I -was- waiting to get the wole set, including those handed over to Freenation during the event, but as that is never going to happen I thought I’d just work with what I have;

Julian Coulter

Blake Bird

Steve Swain

OK,so there’s nothing from any of the miniramp or vert competitions, but I may one day get hold of those and post them. Hope to get back to Peterborough again this year…

Skate Plaza in Crewe

So, the concrete is spreading. It seems that every new skatepark that is being built is a concrete plaza style park. This however seems a little different to the norm. It was the furst time this contract firm had built a skatepark in concrete. In fact, their first work in concrete of any form. The boys done good though. It’s a great smooth surface, without the typical sliding that seems to be the norm on parks of this type.

The park consists of 3 main features. There’s the 2 level kidney bowl, the big staircase and the plaza. Each edge has the usual aluminium edging on it. Not as easy to control as a proper coping, but nicer on the shins than the sharp extruded steel you see in some council parks. The plaza area has a couple of decent drop ledges, stair ledges, rails, flatbanks, manual blocks etc giving some decent lines around the park.

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New Look?

The site is undergoing a major update at the moment. Don’t worry if things aren’t quite right. If you keep checking back things should slowly be improving. Eventually the idea is to have a fully integrated, regularly updated and smooth looking website. That’s a long way off but we are heading in the right direction.

Any ideas of features you’d like to see, or errors that are hanging around and not getting fixed, let us know using the contact details at the top of the page.

Old Skool UK Mags

I was just looking through my “library” of magazines this evening, when it struck me that I now have a new scanner on my desk. The result is a little education for the masses. A bit of rolling history if you will. There have been a number of UK magazines that have come and (mostly) gone over the past decade, but here are the cover shots from the 6 biggest mags since 1996:

Of course there’s going to be a lot of skaters that haven’t even heard of most of these. The reason for that is that most of them started up around ’96 and didn’t last too long. For those who do remember, well done on being as stupid as me and spending the best part of your life on wheels…

Livi Jam

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It’s been a couple of weeks now since the Livi Jam, but I’ve finally got around to sorting the photos. I’m not as happy with this year’s collection but check them out anyway.

Well, Livi Jam was a sick weekend as always. It had a bit of a downer when I found that some of the local chavs (or Scots equivalent) had decided it would be fun to destroy my not-exactly-cheap tent. The fights were interesting for a short time though. Still it was for the most part a good humoured and well attended event. The usual sessions went down with things going a little mental as the drinking started.

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Epic Jam

It’s been ages since I updated the front page of this site. I’m hoping to sort out some sort of content management system to keep it all tidy and save me time in getting things on here. For now though it’s still a ball ache but I’ll try to do it a little more often…

Ben Mellor

Ade Wallace

Ty Brisset

Anyway, a couple of months ago was the Epic Jam. Initially planned as an evening event, it was extended to an all-nighter due to worries from some of the rollers about getting home on the bus so late at night. I’m afraid to say that most people bottled it and left far too early anyway.

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John Taylor will be missed

The UK rolling industry has lost another member of its community. John Taylor, husband to Gaynor and father to Robert and the late Richard Taylor, passed away in Barry, South Wales as a result of a massive heart attack.

I met John on precious few occasions, but when I did he was a true gent. Always there with a kind word and a hand of friendship. We all have our given time on this world, but for some this is all too brief. My thoughts now go out to Gaynor and Rob in these hard times.

RichardTaylorFund.com

A simple but significant project has been started.

The goal is to raise $5,000.00 by July 1, 2006 for the Richard Taylor Memorial Skatepark in his home town of Wales, United Kingdom. The $5,000.00 will be presented to Gaynor Taylor (His mother) by July 6, 2006. That is Richards birthday.

How can you help ? Simply donate at least $2.00, and spread the word. If you have a website, please post a link to RichardTaylorFund.com, and write a little bit about it in your News section. If you work at a magazine, please run the link in your News section and on your website.

If the goal of $5,000.00 is surpassed, that additional money will also be donated to Gaynor Taylor. The donations campaign will end on July 1, 2006. As a worldwide rollerblading family, it is up to us to honor Richard Taylor and make the Richard Taylor Memorial Skatepark a reality.

Thank you for your support,

RichardTaylorFund.com

Gaynor Taylor

Matt Mickey