Shut Up & Skate
Southsea Skatepark, Southsea
Southsea skatepark is the proud home of the King Ramps “NASS Ramp” – the mobile ramp built by Pete King’s team and used for the well known NASS music and action sports festival.
While it’s not being used for festivals, it lives at the park so the locals can benefit from a real competition standard ramp which has replaced the tired old 9′ transition mini-vert.
For competition goers, there is of course the rest of the legendary park to play on. Concrete snake run, circular bowl and street section make up the rest of the park.
Parking
There are pay and display car parks near the sea front but some free street parking is available in the roads a block or two back from the front.
Staying over night
The skatepark are NOT Allowing parking overnight within the grounds. Please see above for alternative parking options.
Please check the map below for some local campsites. There are plenty of hotels nearby.
Some nearby sites:
- Fleet Farm
Yew Tree Rd, Hayling Island PO11 0QE
haylingcampsites.co.uk
023 9246 3684 - The Oven Camp Site
Manor Rd, Hayling Island PO11 0QX
haylingcampsites.co.uk
023 9246 4695 - Southsea Leisure Park
Melville Rd, Southsea PO4 9TB
southsealeisurepark.com
023 9273 5070
Click here for more Southsea Campsites on google maps.
Last year’s results
A Group
Masters
B Group
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.
Summer Shredding!
Top day in the scorching sun! Thanks to all who sacrificed a bit of skate time to help out, and thanks to our sponsors Vans, 187 Killer pads, ProTec, SCUK and Speedlab Wheels.
Well done to Southsea Skatepark for hosting this event for the second year in a row 
Here are the TOP 3s… click here for full results.
B GROUP
1. Lucio Oliveira
2. Dan Baker
3. Noddy Rands
MASTERS
1. Jussi Korhonen
2. Chris Hudson
3. Dave Allen
A GROUP
1. Matty Carlisle
2. Jesse Thomas
3. Jim Langran
2017 confirmed dates
Here are the dates we have so far for 2017 vert competitions across the UK. These dates are confirmed by each organiser and park but they are always subject to change as the vert calendar fills up with other events such as festivals and other comps, so please keep checking here and our social pages for any changes.
If we stay at 6 comps, scores will be the total of the best 5, if we have 7 (Steve Bayless Vert Session at St Neots is still TBC) then it will be best 6.
- Wheels of Steel
Adrenaline Alley, Corby
2nd April 2017 - Seaside Session
Ramp City, Blackpool
28th May 2017 - Shut Up & Skate
Southsea Skatepark, Southsea
18th June 2017 - Steve Bayless Vert Session
River Road Skatepark, St Neots
30th July 2017 - Mount Hawke Vert Jam
Mount Hawke Skatepark, Cornwall
3rd September 2017 - Mancunian Meltdown
Beast Rampz, Manchester
24th September 2017 - Blockless Combat
Creation Skatepark, Birmingham
8th October 2017
Southsea “Shut Up and Skate” information
More information has been added to the Southsea event page including Parking, Camping and event times.
Shut Up And Skate! Southsea re-born!
As you already know, Southsea Skatepark is the new home of the King Ramps mobile vert ramp and we’ll be competing there on July 31st. What you may not know is that local legend Barry Abrook – 80s/90s vert shredder and former Zorlac team member with his brother Mark – has given us kind permission to resurrect the “Shut Up And Skate” contest name! So, here’s the first flyer under that name. I’m sure we can do it justice and make it a comp to remember…
More info about Southsea Skatepark and the Shut Up And Skate competition here.
Southsea gets the “NASS Ramp” and vert series comp
While we haven’t sorted the fine print yet, we will be running a comp on the 31st July at Southsea Skatepark. This will be Round 2, only one week before St Neots – I know it close but these things happen. Southsea has a lot of stuff going on at their park over the summer so we’re lucky to get in there.
Southsea Skatepark will be permanently hosting the King Ramps mobile vert ramp so it will be unavailable at certain times dependant on other events where it might be required. It will be making its way down after the NASS festival which is 8-10 July.
| Useful info | |
|---|---|
| Phone | 023 92 295360 |
| mail@southseaskatepark.com | |
| Website | www.southseaskatepark.com |
| Address | Clarence Esplanade Southsea PO5 3NZ |
| Park entry | TBC |
| Comp entry | FREE |
Schedule Guide
Below is a guide to how the competition will be run based on past events. This is subject to change depending on number of riders and various other factors.
| The Ramp | |
|---|---|
| Height | 14′ |
| Width | 40′ |
| Vert | 2′ 6″ |
| Transition | 11′ 6″ |