Terrain
Have you been to Southsea Skatepark before? If you haven’t, here’s a little introduction to the layout at the skatepark.
Southsea Skatepark reflects it’s age, mixing the legendary concrete from the 70s as one of the first skateparks in the UK (along with Romford, Livingston and Harrow) with the contemporary street/park section, which includes a state of the art vert ramp, spine mini, and a 4ft metal mini around by the cafe.
Southsea Skatepark covers a range of styles, from the snake run bowl that encourages carving and creative lines to the pool slalom run bowl that has just had a small box jump added to the top of the run. Next we have the mogul and keyhole bowl that link together and have brought so much history to the park, I think it’s fair to say visitors come and go and respect anything done in the keyhole bowl which is approx 16ft deep. It definitely adds that legit tag to anything you can do in it.
What was originally the banked freestyle kick turn area, has now had a state of the art 14ft high / 40ft wide vert ramp with skate lite surface added. Next to the vert (surrounding the iconic bandstand) we have a flat bank hip and pyramid grind rail that flows into a 4ft hip into the skate rink. Back in the 70s and 80s the rink was only used for roller hockey.
Around the back of the cafe area, we have a mellow 4ft metal mini that is popular with skateboarders and scooter riders.
In the cafe end of the rink we have a 6ft quarter either side of the 9ft quarter (one of the oldest ramps in the skatepark) that links up to the 4ft hip into plaza section.
In the middle of the skatepark we have one of the biggest fun boxes in the country, next to step up, in and out ramp used for trick in’s and out and some grind ledges and rails that can get set up in various different positions around the park. Following the faster section, we have a 7ft high quarter with flat bank wall ride next to it, 5ft quarter the other side with up and down ramp with rail down the side sheltered by the vert ramp.
We’re very proud of our ‘Resi’ ramp, specialised for learning new tricks with a padded surface and rubberised surface. This is one of the few in the UK and we believe the only outside in the sunshine. This ramp was launched with a special event with BMX Olympic medalist Declan Brooks.
Towards the back of the vert ramp we have the 5ft wooden spine mini with pump bump that is popular with BMXers and rollerbladers – so as you can see the skatepark mixes the heritage of the park built in 1978 with the contemporary modern day street course ramps.
Come and celebrate one of the oldest skateparks in the world with us.
