'85 UK King of the Skatepark

[stan71]

Here are some clips of Neil Ruffell (Rip) Craig Campbell, Carlo Griggs , Jess Dyrenforth from Southsea King of the Skate parks in 1985.  Apologies for the quality, but the tapes been in the garage for 15 years.

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[Trev]

cool clips stan.  looks like you have a treasure of video footage. looking forward to seeing some more. 

[QUADROPHENIA]

cool footage never seeen any of that before

[Moose]

Wicked stuff - Campbell Rules

[dordymush]

i was there that day.
and the day it got rained off when it turned into a free for all.
the rained off day was fookin mental with camps and neil really going at it for the highest air.

mad.

[retrorider.u.k]

cool memories 

[Moose]

i was there that day.
and the day it got rained off when it turned into a free for all.
the rained off day was fookin mental with camps and neil really going at it for the highest air.

mad.

Did you travel around a bit back then? 

[Flatcap]

Neil Ruffell (RIP) was one RAD fooker!

I loved watching his balls out style of riding. That front hop drop-in may not look much or spectacular but that's one scary trick to do in that bowl!

Great find.

Daz. 

[SaMAlex]

i was there that day.
and the day it got rained off when it turned into a free for all.
the rained off day was fookin mental with camps and neil really going at it for the highest air.

mad.

Wasnt the rained off day, the day when the US Skyway team were there? The pool comp didnt happen but it cleared up for the skyway demo on the hockey rink? I def remember getting the train down to southsea two weekends running to watch it all.

I'll dig out my (Very poor) pics I took.

[lazychubs]

cool vids and the little lad riding was that mark likley lol
and some cool tunes apart from the last one

[QUADROPHENIA]

i brought a load of photos off the bay of that day, so who wants to scan em 

[Trev]

i brought a load of photos off the bay of that day, so who wants to scan em 

if you haven't found anyone by the time you next come to rom, i'll do them for you. i bought my first ever scanner about 4 months ago and so far have only scanned in about 5 photos....  i need to justify buying it.

[QUADROPHENIA]

cool trev, there is a few of hugo going BIG

[welsh denny]

some rad riding on there. didn't make it to the comps in the early days but still got all the old mags and remember the pics like yesterday. maybe a few of us should all pool together what old footage we have  together and make a vid( should read dvd)?  now thats a subject to debate.