Derby Skatepark Opening Jam - in pictures

The Derby Skatepark Opening Jam was an epic day of demos, comps and goody bags. Here's the happenings in pictures.

Someone had sprayed loads of rubbish all over the nice clean park in time for the day

So we cleaned up, Will hit the brush

Daz hit the brush

Hitting some pegs too

We got the tent up - Chuckle Brothers style

Rob was living the dream

Daz's technician was organising his desk

Filling up a bit

Paperwork

The dudes are signing up for goody bags and comps

Then the Sherif Mayor came to cut the ribbon and officially open the park

Speech

Bling

Crowds gathered to hear

Chop the ribbon

Under 16 street comp winners, Cieran (2nd) , Lewis (1st) and Josh (3rd)

Getting busier all day

Long time Hooked friend Phil was security on the door

Analysing results with Fraser and Milner

Full up

Chairs for the judges

The place was teeming

Over 16 comp, Scottish Ben noseblunts the rail, with Mr Whippy in the background

Over 16 Street comp winners Gaucher (3rd), George Worthington (1st) and Scottish Ben (2nd)

Then this dude ChunkyBeats dropped some beatboxing... awesome

Leech was lizard licking his lolly

A crazed fan ran on he ramp

Mofos

Daz bs feeble

Facial steez

BMXers were smashing it too

Full on sun + people

Packed

Handplant by Fraser

Lewis Mottishaw ollies

Gaucher goes big

Will Begg melon

Chris Popp feeble

Aidan Stewart rinses the bowl

Tom Ball goes wild

Gaucher gets a new Facebook profile pic

Ball

Aidan and Heathen's Nick Roberts

Bowl jam winners Gaucher (3rd), Tom Ball (2nd) and Aidan Stewart (1st)

Wild boys

Best trick over earthquake was gnarly... Matt wore a headband

George bs bigflip

'The Chocolate man' tré

Eden tre flips

Matt boneless

Tom Ball bs flip

Purple trousers steez dude hardflip reverts... crip

The Chocolate man smashed it and won a signed deck

Blue Steel Beggy

Ash, Kearney and Chev discuss general lurkings

Is that Matt Murney or Bruce Springsteen

The BMX dudes announced the winners of the BMX jams and comps, and we all chilled out. Some grey clouds came and we all ran away at the end of the day, just in time.

Thanks to everyone who helped organise an awesome event and all you who came and took part. See you next year for the Derby jam! Special thanks to Derby City Council, Rollersnakes,Hooked and Mode.

Edit of the footage on the way. Cheers everyone.

Derby Skatepark Opening Jam - 6th August 2011

Date: 6th August 2011

Time: 11am - 5pm

Location: Derby Skatepark, Bass Recreation Ground Derby, Opposite Cockpit Island Car Park

There will be skate and BMX demos and competitions throughout the day with tonnes of prizes and goodies.

Get down for compeitions, prizes, demos, signings, music and loads of other stuff.

It's going to be epic!

6 Tricks on the Sabbath: Derby park rooftop ramping with Dave Ford... in slow mo

This month we hit a few tricks over the rooftop of the brand new Derby skatepark. The park is great, lots of different elements to skate whether your going for bangers or chilling.

Heathen's Nick Roberts at Derby park

This is amazing. Watch this and go and skate the park!

Maintenance announcement

On Thursday the 16th of June and possibly Friday 17th of June the skatepark will be having grass seeds planted all around it.

This means it's unridable during working hours (9 - 5) as there will be contractors doing all the seeding. It's ridable in the evenings though.

During that time, try and stay off the soil areas for a bit as we want grass to grow around the park.

Thanks

The day we've all been waiting for...

Today the skatepark is complete, and the barriers are down! And it's amazing. It's very different from a lot of other parks, with some distinguishing features such as the earthquake gap, rooftop / shed shape hip and grindbox and humongous bowl. And it's got a polejam.

After 4 years of campaigning, consulting, planning and designing, the skatepark is finally finished on Bass Recreation Ground, Derby.

As soon as the barriers were removed the park had over 50 skaters and BMXers on it... and some rollerbladers. There are still a few bits to be finished, like a pathway and a little more landscaping, but this should all be done over the next few weeks ready for the Official Opening event in July. (Date TBC)

Meet Derby Skatepark

The bowl - 5.5ft with 6.5ft extension

The hubba - one side of the driveway, with rooftop and hip in background

The rail - the other side of the driveway (Bruce attached)

The rooftop (or shed)

The shed being used (Brett Nollie backside heel)

The driveway with the bank and earthquake gap

The full driveway

One of the quarters

The curb block

The polejam

Plain (but long and smooth) grind box block

The other quarter (Hooked ripper Kearney bs disasters it)

The bowl from the top

The action was hard and fast with everyone being down there...

Busy

Busy

Busy

Craig Smedley getting busy

Kearney blunts the bowl

Noselide the hubba from DF

A view from the road

A montage of the whole park (click to enlarge and appreciate)

Get down there asap to thrash it out, you can find it easily highlighted on the map below.

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Directions:

From Derby city click here

From the Train Station click here

Parking:

The Westfield car park is directly opposite, and only £1.70 all night after 6pm.

There isn't any 'official' parking on Basses Rec...

Thank you for all your support throughout this project, everyone is really happy with the park so far. We'll be documenting all of the general goings on at the park on the Hooked website and blog too - check them out here.