Ollie Griffiths - Nollie Kickflip

After all the hassle with the last post I have had confirmation from several sources today that Norwich skatepark is now officially open and skate-able at last. Although the opening jam etc won’t be until sometime in June or July more news on this when I get it.

Backside Lipslide - Chris Yeomans

Norwich Skatepark is not finished yet I have been informed, and that the police may be involved, so I would not encourage anyone to skate it before the fence is down.

Further update: Undesirables (rude boys?) have become attracted to the park now that people are skating it (even though they shouldn’t) and a JCB bucket was dropped into the bowl, which means it will need to be patched and take slightly longer than expected. It’s recommended everyone waits until the fence is down officially so to to attract further problems.

So word seemed to get around pretty quick that the new Norwich skatepark was skateable, with maybe 40 people on bikes and boards showing up on Tuesday night as the builders were leaving, so they left the fence open so the fence didn’t get broken by anyone climbing over it.

The park is probably 99% finished with all the concrete set and skateable, although it’s still a building site whilst they do the landscaping. This means you shouldn’t really be on it as we were told by a couple of people from the council, although they couldn’t really stop everyone once they were on there. Although some burly builders to arrive later on to give everyone the boot.

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Just in time for summer and the opening of the new Norwich skatepark, the third skate game from EA is about to be released, to lure you away from a real board where you get hurt and into a darkened room to twiddle your thumbs instead.

The demo is already available to download on xBox 360 and PS3, I’ve played it a bit and it doesn’t seem to add a huge amount. However new things include new places to skate, Jason Lee as a character and also an improved hardcore mode which makes the game pretty realistic.