Northern Sex Tourists Visit Bury St. Edmunds

Ben Broyd - f/s 5-0 all the way over

I popped across the road to my local on Saturday night to relax for a couple and noticed on my entry a few fellas I kind of recognised but couldn't place setting up camp in the pump track. Barbecues lit and tent erections well underway a smile grew upon my face as I passed and set down my bags, greeting the team with bumps and fives*.
There's something special about being on a trip with your mates, surviving on the essentials found at the shops you find close to the parks or spots you visit. Skating until you can't, and all the other stuff that comes with touring with good friends and skateboards. Seeing others with the same enthusiasm as me at that age brings back so many memories, new and old...
 The evening progressed into a good session for me. The deep end of the bowl is finally opening up to me after too long and some easy backside grinds are building my confidence slowly but surely. I left as the lights came on to return to normal life until my usual Sunday morning play.
I spotted a thin white smoke column rising from the park against the spots of blue breaking through the grey as I drove round the Asda roundabout. The visitors were up and brewing up as I rolled round the park. I was surprised by the amount of people at the park at nine in the morning. Admittedly I was one of only three or four without a foot plate and a pair of handlebars being viewed by the family, but numbers are numbers and the Bury St. Edmunds Skatepark on Olding Road has a total monthly footfall second only to one other public park in the district. This helps greatly when we're talking to people about donations or funding!
I rolled around the bowl and was joined by a couple of people. Got chatting, managed a few good lines and snapped a couple of shots.
The visitors were from Sheffield. As I had correctly guessed the night before, some of the Sex Skateboards rollers taking in some southern sights. Shortly after the picture above was taken, Ben slammed trying to boost the double hip gap removing most of the skin on one palm in one big bloody flap. The group left for the next stop shortly after this. From the looks of their instagram feeds, the trip carried on regardless.

Amadeus Jozef Szklaruk - b/s boneless

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Luke Jarvis - Foot Plant

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Lee Blackwell - Crail at Mundesley

Lee Blackwell - b/s crail

I've been playing around with slow shutter speeds, lots of light and moving the camera around after firing the flash.
This shot of Lee was taken at a session a couple of weeks back shortly after a service of remembrance for Steve Bayless at Saint Mary's, Happisburgh.
It's also the bowl I broke my leg a few years ago and was the first time I've visited with a board since.  Due in the most part to the fact that this little park is so remote, stuck out on the sandy cliffs of the North Norfolk coast. 
With storms rolling in from the North Sea, we were lucky that the park was dry and a good twenty strong group skated in the sea fog for a couple of hours before snaking our way along the coast back to Walcott for the wake.






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JThaxxx at Mindwarp's 24th Birthday Party

 Over recent months, Empire has begun to host late club nights at the park. All above board and organised professionally by experienced promoters the first was such a great success in financial terms that the idea of using the warehouse as a club venue simply became a no-brainer.  
 Saturday saw Triple X promotions bring their Mindwarp 24th Birthday Party to the park with Slipmatt at the helm and Ratty, Worzal, 2 Bad Mice amongst others giving support. 
With the decks on the jump box the entire park became a dance floor with the addition of numerous obstacles to negotiate. This was a most amusing sight as some stumbled over the driveway in the centre of the dance floor while others took extra high steps as if walking on the moon unable to judge perspective due I'm sure in part to the aggressive lights and lasers, but mostly because a large number were very, very high. 
I took a moment to sit on the roll in and watch the mayhem unfold. A truly memorable moment!

The mezzanine became a bar and the mini ramp was fenced off and inaccessible to punters but they could look down from floor above and watch some skating happen below. One woman in tall cork wedges did manage to trip into the ramp from the park side platform. I'm not sure anyone was meant to be on the platforms of the ramps, but hey, you can't watch everyone. She had great trouble getting out again. Like a spider in the bath.
We skated in fading natural light as the rave began to grow in the park behind us. It became too dark for my eyes about two and a half hours in and I stopped. Others skated on in the gloom, illuminated by only a powerful black light, perfect if the ramp were white. It isn't white.

Jordan arrived a bit later in the evening. He rolled up, destroyed the ramp in near pitch darkness for about half an hour before putting his arm around my shoulders and shouting over the deafening set that he didn't want to end up hurting himself skating in the dark and wanted to save himself for another day. I can't say I blame him. I could barely see where to point my camera!
At this stage, the now ten or twelve strong crew disbanded. Some migrated to the dance floor, most to the bar. We all got special yellow wristbands which I believe entitled us to free drinks. I was driving.
After a short power nap in my car, I reentered the park for the headline set. 
I bumped into various sweaty familiar faces as I meandered my way through the heavy crowd with my camera.
Shutdown was at three, I sat in my car from about ten to, waiting for the crowd to disperse sufficiently to allow me to leave more safely. The surrounding streets were littered with the bodies of ravers. Sitting and lying on curbs and walls, slowly regaining the ability to exist. 

Jordan Thackeray is in most of the pics, the other skater is Ian Clark. 

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Rumbles Reopening Jam

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Reece Hall - Kickflip Transfer at Empire Skatepark

Reece Hall - kickflip transfer over the flat bar

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Fin MacBrayne - Door Gap Front Truck Smash at Empire Skatepark

Fin MacBrayne - f/s front truck smash grabbed early over the door

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