Vote for the winner now! Closes at 4pm Christmas Eve. Re-cap of the contenders:
See also Soul Crusher.
See also Headz.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DALqtlZNGks/?hl=en
(Can’t find the Olympics run)
No niallc. I suppose he’s the UK’s answer to Louie Lopez or Busenitz.
massive props to all involved compiling this thread - looking forward to watching this lot
(i live under a skate vid rock)
Evan Johnson for me
Probably Dee for me as I’d love to be able to pop shuv like him ha
Voted Evan Johnson because he has that bizarrely talented English skater vibe like Mike Wright did.
Bump. For those who haven’t voted, please do. It is very close this year!
Expected to see Jordan Thackeray mentioned not that I’m clued up on many of these names
Last 23 hours to vote.
If anybody’s stuck, the correct answer is Dee Collins.
And the winner is…
Dee Collins! Our first non-English winner since nialc won the inaugural prize back in 2013.
I reached out to Dee to give him the good news and he had this to say: “The UK Skate Forum’s cooption of Irish skateboarding into its UK SOTY award is another example of British colonialism, plain and simple. I wholeheartedly reject this meaningless title. Give Ireland back to the Irish!”
Thanks Dee!
Best pop shuvs
The UK SOTY pantheon:
2013 - nialc
2014 - Ben Rarmers
2015 - Tom Knox/Mike Arnold
2016 - James Bush
2017 - Mike Arnold
2018 - Barney Page
2019 - Ben Raemers
2020 - Tom Knox
2021 - Kyle Wilson
2022 - Casper Brooker
2023 - Tom Knox
2024 - Dee Collins
deserves it for what myst be the first use of a rebel song in a skate vid!
UK SOTY from RaD march 1992
We did a readers poll in Sidewalk once. Pre-Internet. I opened and logged every single envelope myself. It was accompanied by a photograph that Sam Ashley took of some kids with boards that Horsley captioned ‘chocolate mouth’ or something similar.
I can’t remember who was voted favourite uk skater but I’ll find it at some point.
Alex Moul was definitely in there somewhere which is telling re @andy_smoke R.a.D scan above.
PLUS! 
Ed Templeton is my fave uk skater like
Nomination of video of the year hokus pokus came out 3 years previous
RAD did a UK Skater of the Year twice and Alex won it both times.
