First very ramp I dropped in on and rock fakie’d was the big blue one at Leigh on sea I think. Was fucking massive back in those days. Tiny now.
I’d padded up, helmet etc etc and had a bigger set up for transition when I stood at the top of the vert at Ramp City maybe 12-13 years back. Nah was exactly what I said as I went giddy at top 
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First one I did was the big metal outdoor one in Bath
Don’t remember the biggest one. Birmingham was quite big
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First was at Southsea. Dropped on on Satan’s toilet the same day and was absolutely buzzing! It had these metal 6’ tall & 2’ wide vert walls out the top of it, but surely no one has ever skated them lol. Learnt a few stunts on the Radlands vert but my favourite ramp was Mount Hawke. A proper beauty.
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Am I wrong in remembering articles featuring Mount Hawke when it opened where one of the main attractions was a curb cut that skaters like Neil Urwin and Ben Bodilly (?) flew out of?
Curb cuts as a feature in a skatepark felt like an inspiration from the Greyhound curb cuts in Virtual Reality.
@anonymity am I dreaming or were Mount Hawke curb cuts a thing?
Dont know how to post pictures on here but yeah it did. Pretty sure it was like a black pavement with white kerbs.
When I lived down there it was indoors but went on holiday and skated it when I was little.
This is how I remember it. Park was outdoors though.
If anyone (Buildafire?) has scsns this is circa 1993-4 video grab sequence era RAD
Yeah the kerbs were defo outside.
Used to happen all the time 10+ years ago but not even really had any police problems since. Was probably a period of anti-social behaviour shit at the time they were going for. Newcastle monument in its day was prime for it. I always used to give my name as different pro skaters and use my next door neighbors address.
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Yeah I remember being chased around Newcastle one Sunday by a load of police in vans. To be fair an unofficial meet up had been arranged and a load of people turned up and it caused a bit of chaos in the centre. They also had some pretty high fines for skating monuments and memorials too.
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Like a dweeb I gave my real name and phone number when we got busted for the highly criminal act of skateboarding in birmingham. Cops were really aggressive. My dad got a call, I was shitting it but he gave the copper a bollocking for being grabby and sweary at a bunch of kids. Cop ended up apologising
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