The Home of UK Vert Skateboarding
Welcome to the UK Independent Vert Series
This is the UK Independent Vert Series official website. You’ll find all the details of the year’s competitions, results after each event, news updates and all you need to know about sponsors and prizes.
Keep checking this site and the supporting social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram to keep up-to-date with all things going on in the UK vert series.
To read news for past years, check the News Archive.
Shut Up and Skate, Southsea 2018
A great way to help celebrate 40 years at the legendary venue! The rain held off (just), the crowd gathered and the skating was amazing from all groups.
We had 3 different judges for every group this time, proving that the skaters are keen to keep the scene together by putting something back. So thanks to Jim Langran, Noddy Rands, Alex Griffiths, Lee Blackwell, Ethan Hardiman Doody, Nicholas James Rains, Street Nowik, Leon Bennett for manning the clipboards.
Special mention to Kat Marlow for bashing the laptop for hours to keep the scores in order and let us run comps back to back.
MCs Christopher Hudson and James Threlfall kept things tightly wound and got the crowd pumped all day long. I was briefly allowed to pic up the mic 😉
Toggs on the platform keeping the event on film were Stu Bennett, Gavin Swaffield and Richie Styles with Elliot Mallinson doing the moving pictures.
We had another successful live stream with 50k+ viewers thanks to Brett Dye from The Skateboarding Show and EXTREME making sure there wasn’t a single kickturn missed.
Big Love!
Here’s the numbers…
A GROUP
1. Jake Anderson
2. Jim Langran
3. Oakley Liddell
4. Ethan Doody
5. Alex Griffiths
6. Lars Stout
7. Rio O’Byrne
8. James Threlfall
9. Lee Blackwell
10. Jack Tonge
11. Nick Rains
MASTERS
1. Jussi Korhonnen
2. Dave Allen
3. Greg Nowik
4. Chris Hudson
5. Leon Bennett
6. Richard Styles
7. Gareth Hughes
8. Mat Marlow
9. Lee James
10. Mick O’Byrne
11. Martin Pope
12. Brett Dye
13. Murray Dolan
14. Kieron Bhargava
B GROUP
1. Noddy Rands
2. George O’Neil
3. Ben Plumb
4. Jakob Adams
5. Charlie Hart
6. Darren Quinn
7. Rhys Bevan
9. Stanley Bhargava
10. Fergus Bhargava
11. Reuben Marlow
12. Kris Tyger
14. Ruby Dolan
15. Martha
16. Matt Treece
17. Roscoe
18. Poppy Dolan
19. Ben Delaney
20. Archie Waye
Available on the results archive as always.
Round 2 Results from Blackpool
Great weekend in Blackpool with some seriously amazing skateboarding! Thanks to all involved. Here’s yer numbers… also available in the results archive.
A GROUP
1. Jake Anderson
2. Jim Langran
3. Oakley Liddell
4. Adam Williams
5. Zak Kutz
6. Alex Griffiths
7. Logan Del
8. Finley Kirkby
9. Lucio Oliveira
MASTERS
1. Dave Allen
2. Greg Nowik
3. Paul Atkins
4. Sean Goff
5. Chris Hudson
6. Mat Marlow
= 7. Richard Styles
= 7. Gareth Hughes
9. Jon Nixon
10. Lee James
11. Chris Harris
12. Matt Leese
B GROUP
1. Judah Cross
2. Cam Marlow
3. George O’Neil
4. Noddy Rands
5. Indiana Tracy
6. Jakob Adams
7. Darren Quinn
8. Joe James
9. Carl Shelley
10. Reuben Marlow
11. Lily Grace
LIVE streaming all competitions on EXTREME
In a first for the UK Independent Vert Series, we’re going to stream all our contests LIVE on the Extreme facebook page throughout the entire 2018 series.
Brett Dye – the intrepid skate reporter from The Skateboarding Show will be your manic commentator to take you through the finals in all three groups. He’ll tell you who’s riding and even have a stab at naming some of the tricks!
The videos will be available on the site long after the comps have happened so you’ll be able to wear out that pause button checking out how rad look look doing rock fakies.
2018 SERIES – £5,000 up for grabs from Vans!
Welcome to the 2018 series!
We’re lucky enough to get support again this year from Vans who have cemented their commitment to UK vert with a £5,000 cash prize fund for the A Group. This will be split amongst the top riders on the final series podium.
Our other sponsors who are with us throughout the series, are Pig City, Keeping Vert Dead and ProTec. Watch out for sme cool product in those prize bags.
See you at Mount Hawke on 22nd April.
Gearing up for the 2018 season
The 2017 series is over. If you didn’t know that, you’ve been under a rock. There’ll be a break from comps for the next 5/6 months, which will most likely start in April 2018. Keep checking on the website and social feeds for news of the 2018 contest dates.
You’ve probably seen by now that we’ve got a new logo. The old one was never meant to stay very long as it was a rushed-in hack job so that we had something to launch the 2015 season with. It stuck around a while but now we’ve got something with a little more thought behind it and hopefully some longevity to reflect our hope for a long future of the UK Independent Vert Series.
We’re once again aiming to get the best support from familiar brands to help out with prizes for the comps. We always try to make sure everyone who enters gets a prize and that was certainly true in 2017 thanks to Vans. If there is a particular company, brand, shop or organisation you think might like to get involved with the next series, just drop us a an email at uk@vertseries.com.
So get your new tricks down, see you on the platform!
Series Sponsors
Competition Sponsors
We will publish sponsor logos here when our first competition sponsors are confirmed.
Each sponsor gets a logo placement with a link to their website.
Please email uk@vertseries.com if you would like to help support the UK vert scene.
Competition Dates & Venues
Mount Hawke, Cornwall
Sunday 22nd April, 2018Gover Waterworks
Truro
Cornwall
TR4 8BQ
01209 890 705
Ramp City, Blackpool
Sunday 27th May, 2018Cropper Road
Marton
Blackpool
FY4 5LB
01253 699005
Southsea Skatepark, Southsea
Sunday 17th June, 2018Clarence Esplanade
Southsea
PO5 3NZ
River Road Skatepark, St Neots
Sunday 29th July, 2018Riverside Park
River Road
St Neots
Cambridgeshire
PE19 7SB
Adrenaline Alley, Corby
Sunday 19th August, 20186 Priors Haw Road
Corby, Northamptonshire
NN17 5JG
01536 202049
Skaterham, Surrey
Sunday, 23rd September 2018The Chapel (opposite Tesco)
The Village, Guards Avenue
Caterham,
Surrey CR3 5XL
Creation, Birmingham
Sunday 14th Obctober, 2018582 Moseley Road
Birmingham
B12 9AA
0121 449 8000