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UKSA National Championships 2008

February 17th, 2010 by Nic

As unbelievable as it seems there had been no UK skateboard championships since the 90’s. Whilst it seemed like companies constantly blew their marketing budget on trying to come up with some stupid gimmicky format for events no one had actually got their act together and just run a standard competition properly! The first year of the Championships played host to the top 150+ UK pro/sponsored skaters in the UK under one roof for the first time ever. Everyone who is anyone in UK skating was there and it was an amazing event proving that the time for an event of this level was long overdue.

Whilst the UK produces some of the top skaters in Europe we still lag behind most other countries in terms of high level events. For example Estonia hosts an international pro skate and BMX comp while we don’t! A large part of this is down to potential sponsors attitudes in this country – sorry to point the finger. In America, Australia and many other countries being a sponsored skateboarder is respected in the UK skateboarders still have the ASBO teen image wrongfuly portrayed by the media. I know thousands of skateboarders and not one has an ASBO. One of the many reasons I run events is that it is slowly helping to break this inaccurate stereotype.

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