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The Skatepark Situation – Part 5

January 26, 2010

So I’m back, with a full on new instalment of The Skatepark Situation. A bit of a downer this time, as it’s going to involve SOME complaining. However, there is understanding at the base of these complaints, and as has been said before these articles are merely here to help and inform rather to bitch and moan.

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The Skatepark Situation – Part 4.5

January 25, 2010

This isn’t a proper entry, just a quick update. Some sort of progress is in motion. Contacts at a major skatepark building company are working with myself to secure a couple of key friends in the council who are currently holding the purse strings for some new and interesting developments within our city. It has

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No… Seriously, Winter REALLY sucks.

December 29, 2009

So I made an upbeat post about winter and how people will always find a way to prevail in these harsh times and skate, but this winter has been the mother of all winters. Since I started skating in 2003, I swear there’s not been a winter as wet, cold and simply annoying as this

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New Terribleco site

December 11, 2009

So after faffing about with it for a few weeks, I finally pulled my socks up and actually sorted the new Terribleco site today. It’s still not quite finished, it’s about halfway there, but there’s already some cracking content on there! Get yourself over to the site now and join the brand new forum, check

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Batface Review in Sidewalk!

December 11, 2009

If you’ve recieved this month’s issue of Sidewalk Skateboarding Magazine, you’ll notice in the DVD review section that Batface has been viewed, consumed and reviewed by the good gents at the mag. If you’re cheap and feel like there’s nothing else in this month’s issue that interests you, I’ve handily scanned in the review for

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Winter Sucks

November 30, 2009

Well winter is well and truly here, if today is anything to go by. The sun was out, by it was so ridiculously cold that even looking outside gave me a chill. Determined to make the most of a day off, I tried to get out for a skate this afternoon. As hard as I

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The Skatepark Situation: Part 4

November 25, 2009

So here we are, back again for another round of “The Skatepark Situation”: a now reoccurring series of articles on the Covert site about skateparks in Coventry, which aims to fulfill the task of trying to get the council to understand skateboarding, as well as trying to get the skateboarders to understand the way the

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CTHULHU

November 25, 2009

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by horror author H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, first appearing in the short storyThe Call of Cthulhu” when it was published in Weird Tales in 1928. ” Cthulhu is one of the central Great Old Ones of the Lovecraft Mythos. It is often cited for the extreme descriptions

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Burton Upon Trent skatepark

November 19, 2009

Warning: The following blog entry is heavily related to my series of boring editorials about skateparks in Coventry and why they aren’t good enough and why the council should be looking at other areas of the UK for inspiration when it comes to designing parks. If you’re sick and tired of these articles then skip

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The Big Push

November 16, 2009

Sidewalk’s Big Push 2009 is now fully online, with all 6 edits available for viewing via MPora! For those of you who don’t know what the Big Push is; it’s a 6 team road trip competition across various cities in the UK, started by the now out of business skate mag Document. Sidewalk took on

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