Reporting on skateboard competitions is never easy. There’s a feeling that you ought to be writing about the skating, because it’s a competition, when so often the stuff going on around the event seems more interesting. I suspect we were always happier about trying to share the experience, rather than list the tricks and dish…

In an era when big stadium skateboard competitions were confined to Munster (as far as Europe was concerned) and skating on TV was non-existent, this Dundee event was a typical event. The non-competition skating and the social side of things were more important than the organisational details: More people joined the session, having grasped what…

Skate and Meditate The line up of teams included notables Team Team, Team Omelette, Boils n’Warts, D.H.S.S. (Dundee Hardcore Skate Squad), Team Manic (England/Scotland), Factory Sensibles, and Angel Lights (A & B). The street and ramp team competitions were to be on Saturday, with the individual over and under 16 street and ramp events on…