Shoreham Skatepark

The Council have kindly allowed us the use of the council’s staff car-park, situated opposite the Civic Centre entrance, (large red brick building) for the duration of the Ham Jam event.

Please see here for a Google street view showing the entrance to the car park and the Ham rec just down the road.

HAM JAM – SUNDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER, 2010

With registration from 10am the new skate park facility in Shoreham-by-Sea will witness some of the best UK Professional Skateboarders competing for a share in £1000 of prize money at the First Annual HAM JAM Skateboard festival. As sponsored by Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Trucks and Ocean Sports Boardriders (Kings way, Hove) with additional support and energy from Red Bull.

Opened in May, 2010, Shoreham skatepark on Ham Road (off Eastern Avenue) has quickly established itself as one of the leading skateboard facilities in the country. The Skatepark and more specifically the ‘bowled area’ has attracted some of the best skateboarders in the world (Tony Hawk) and has raised the bar for local authority skate park provisions in the UK.

The Ham Jam is the first official event organised for the skate park and its local community. Not only will this event give the opportunity to celebrate the success of the local skateboard user group in getting this facility financed and built. But it will also be a chance to peek into the future and get a glimpse into what this facility will provide for the area and its users.

The first skateboard ‘Jam’ will commence at midday for the Under 16’s category, with the Masters Category (over 40) at 1.30pm and the PRO/AM category running from 3pm.

For those that choose to come and join in with the celebrations there will be Music with live DJ, MC’ing of the event, as well as prizes and give aways from sponsors for both athletes and spectators. Freshly catered food and beverage’s will also be available on site at the skatepark. Expect to see a superior spectacle of skateboarding with massive ariel manoeuvres, ridiculous technical tricks and an abundance of the best skateboarders in the UK (if not some of the best in the world).

For more information please contact Richard Inskip on 07590 115200

Shoreham Skatepark is proud to host THE SCREAMING HAM JAM!!!!!

Facebook page here

Bowl Jam for Pro/Am, Masters and under 16’s (Free to enter). £1000 cash for tricks and a shed load of product to give away. Sponsored by OCEAN SPORTS BOARDRIDERS (http://www.boardriders.co.uk) and in association SANTA CRUZ SKATEBOARDS and INDEPENDENT TRUCK CO!

The REDBULL Team (girls, girls, girls) are going to be there with loads of liquid wings to help you fly through the day!

Music, Rad Skating, BBQ and shit to give away……. what more do you want the day after the Battle of Hastings!!

Registration from 10am for anyone wanting to join in the shenanigans of the day.

Under 16’s Jam from 12pm

Masters Jam (over 40’s – flexible on age if FAT) from 1.30pm

Pro/Am from 3pm until £1000 is spent on tricks.

See you there!

Shred or Die have posted a short video of their visit to the “Ham Skatepark”

http://www.shredordie.com/video/tony-hawk-and-jesse-fritsch

“What a cool little town to have this good skatepark here” Tony Hawk.

It doesn’t get much better than this guys!!!

Thanks to the Birdhouse team for stopping by and making a lot of skaters very happy!

Some video grabs from Tuesdays Shoreham Hawk jam.

Jesse Fritsch

Tony Hawk

Videos shot by Steve Silver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lZapwtvwlg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz0AQCkbqkc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CAkrYUjzK0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cezxxgh6nc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHKdt8tPXU

Sorry no video embedding

Tonight I popped down the skatepark only to find Tony, Jesse Fritsch and Kevin Staab skating the bowl!!.

The guys are in town for tomorrow nights big demo on Brighton seafront.

Nothing had been arranged, they just jumped in a taxi and came down for a skate.

The session had started before I arrived, so I quickly padded up and jumped in.

Tony came over and congratulated us on the bowl. He told me he found it buttery smooth!

Jesse and Kevin also commented that the coping was just perfect.

Tony and Jesse were totally focused on riding the bowl, working out lines and hitting the deep with Indy airs, F/s blunts, smiths, Lien to tails. Tony even tried to jump the fence from out of the 8.5ft end!

Video clips to follow…..

We only had a short session for about an hour before the youngsters totally mobbed Tony asking for autographs.

Whilst Tony threw out handful’s of  stickers, Jesse finally landed his deepend stalefish.

It was an amazing buzz to see these guys skate our park. They really enjoyed it and gave us some great compliments on the park and even our skating. Does it get any better than this??

See you at the show.

The User group would like to thank McDonalds for donating the much needed litter bins now positioned around the skatepark.

4 new bins have been installed and will be emptied daily by the Mcdonald’s litter team.

So please make the effort to use them and keep your skatepark clean!

Friday the 2nd of July, the skatepark will be closed to the public whilst Blakedown begin make good some of the defects and repairs to both the bowl and the street area.

The park should be open again after the working day (4pm possibly?) ready for the weekend.

There will be a couple more days of closures following soon.

I will post up the dates as and when they are required.

Thank you for your patience.

Just remembered the last roof top image….

The Police are visiting the Ham Skatepark this Thursday to co-incide with National Bike week.
From 10 -2pm*, the Police will be providing  free security bike marking and offering bicycle security advice.

* Update. This will now extend later in to the afternoon to allow  people to attend after school.