Barcelona It Ain’t

We then drive down to the waterfront where there are some more weird curved concrete benches and an even stranger wooden affair consisting of a set of manny pads – quite surreal and reminiscent of platform levels in a Super Marios brothers game.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t time or opportunity to hook up with a few of the locals. Joe Paget was away at the time (thanks to Ranny for the pic), but we met up with Churchill and Cullen at the newly opened Haslemere park for a weekends fun and games. Nowik was awol with an injury, but we hooked up at the Ham Jam at the beginning of September. Would’ve been nice to shoot these guys within the Southampton post code area, but that’s life and its all gravy.

Like most hometown locals, there is a tendency to take for granted what you have in terms of skate spots. Ok, Southampton ain’t no Barcelona, but it does have quite a variety of session locations and most are fairly hassle-free.

The skate scene is as healthy as you’ll see anywhere, supported by guys like Tosh at Reskue, and Marc Churchill who do a great job in keeping the stoke alive and kicking. Southampton is another one of those ‘overlooked’ towns / cities, which is a great shame. It has skate heritage, skate history, and a group of keen dudes who take skating, (but not themselves) seriously.