Sunday Snaps...

Here are a few pics taken from last sunday, a local mooch about with a small crew resulted in a fun session at some new and old spots in the sunshine.

Thanks for the pics vez!

Hythe Life...

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Here's a clip from a little session we had on sunday at the now re-surfaced and mucho fun Hythe brick banks, pictures from that day to follow when Veran gets his finger out..hint hint!

30 years of Mongo...

Its slowly happening to us all....Adam Mondon is the next man to be in the 30 club, its Adams birthday today and all of us here at MN h.q would like to wish the Gin & Tonic fuelled lord of the death lens a very happy birthday!

Sunday Shopping...

Last Sunday was a wet one which resulted in a mountain of aborted spots due to rain and hailstones. in the end russ, steve, veran and channon ended up at tescos out of hours filming lines for the new video...

Dan K & Story...

Monster Network homie Dan Kircher (creator of the 'Forays' video) has continued his close ties with The Story Store by designing a shop hoodie and tee shirt. The use of burgundy gets both thumbs up! Click on the image to wing your way over to the electronic Sheffield skate shop and have a sniff around for purchases...

This is David Dixon and your watching 411....

Heres a clip of Dave getting ready for the next intro to 411 #75006 at a recent Harmony Demo in Manchester.

Filmed and edited by 'Captain Chaos' himself, Mr Adam Mondon.

Nuns On The Run...

Last Saturday started with a block session at the skatepark before moving on to a few street spots...starting with an east colchester school yard and ending up at the nuns skating the bar and bank as the sun set on a warm spring day...

Romford in Oz

Long time friend of the family and Romford royalty James Holland and his girlfriend Nat are in the middle of a round the world trip. Currently in Australia, James has met up with fellow Rom brother Reeves and the two have been checking out just a few of the delightful skate spots down under has to offer. Here's to you boys! Think of us here in the freezing cold will ya!

Have a good trip James and thanks for the pics.

After Midnight...

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Here's a little montage of what went on down the park last Wednesday night featuring Russ, Steve, Sandy, Dave, a brief appearance from Neils and Veran (street hawk) Tull.

Old Chelmsford Bus Station...

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We flexed our cat burglar skills back on 28th November 2004 for a final skate before the derelict Chelmsford bus station main building was due for demolition. A major Chelmsford skate spot for well over a decade, its painted curbs, stairs, little driveway and most of all its benches are still missed. Digging in the old 'Lately' tapes we found this footage of LBD skating the previously insta-bust dirty maintenance ledge as a fond fairwell. not long after in early 2005 the building was flattened. Today its an almost finished new bus station and swanky flats. Those black marble ledges out front are so so close to being a good spot too but just not quite there!

Yorkies Revenge...

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Russ grabbed some footage on Sunday of vez and mondon post yorkies...

Lately - Sandy and End Titles Fixed...

There was a problem with the hosting of sandy's part and the end titles of 'lately', its all fixed now though. go watch sandy's part immediately!

Ipswich Washout...

Sunday was all set to be an epic skate around ipswich's long forgotten skate spots thank to adam mondon's spot list. sadly the weather had other plans. once the rain finally stopped play at the skatepark, mobile phone photos were rinsed until everyone's cars formed a convoy. adam suggested a bank to wall underpass to skate which was better than it initially looked. after a few more aborted spots it was sunday lunch time, yorkies! with the collective skateboarding experience spanning 100 years you'ld think post gut-ache lunch skateboarding would obviously be ruled out as a bad idea...not so, a last hour undercover worked off a fraction of the calories before home time. a (sunny) return trip is on the cards very soon.

Dartford & Romford Skateparks...

Saturday saw the opening of essex's newest skatepark just south of the river in dartford. Paul went down to have a look and met up with mn homies Ray and Gorm for a skate. the park is a nice u shaped bowl with a raised corner and hip, etc. the street course is still under construction but looks like it will include an interesting c shaped quarter and a steep quarter to wallride. the place was packed so after saying hello to a few old friends (including long time mn friend pete king) it was decided a change of venue was required to get some skateboarding in..from essex's newest skatepark to one of its oldest, romford. at romford were dave watson, kevin parrott and si skipp plus OG colchester barn ramp local mark munson and a bunch of visitors including scottish ripper div. some fun skating went down as the sun set with the day finally ending with the indoor mini getting destroyed by the visiting scots and locals. good old romford!

p.s. gorm took the paul skate photos, check gorm's website www.gorminator.com for more photos of dartford and a bunch of other photo radness...

Sunshine at Royal London...

Friday's unexpected sunshine and warmth inspired an impromptu skate down at the royal london banks in the middle of the afternoon rush hour for dave and paul. some more skate photos on film and a few new tricks here and there. sometimes impromtu skates are the most fun, such a shame you can't plan them.........!

Two Years Later...

Can you believe it was two years ago to the day we premiered our cine magnus opus "Lately" Anyone that did attend that fateful night were true to the cause as it had been snowing all that day. Anyway "Lately" has a special place in our hearts here at MN hq, so much has happened since that video and to celebrate its second birthday you can now watch Lately in all its full glory in our videography section. "Roll them pigeons!"

Either/Or...

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Found this clip of Mr Gonella from the I.T.F tape vaults. Either or he can do blunt maydays both stances. I think everyone likes a mess about on that ramp down the park!

Wet Dry Wet Dry...

Yesterday was a weird one, one minute it was raining, the next it was drying out. and repeat. again and again. the day started with gonz taking some photos of dave's new mural in the student union at colchester institute. then a meet up with russ to go skate and take some skate snaps. at the skatepark though it was blowing a gale and after a drive to a spot the heavens opened. daffodils say spring, the weather does not. didn't stop dave getting some waterlogged tricks down and some footage and snaps. the skate photos are under wraps for the moment but here are a few others...