Niall Neeson
World Championships of Street and Park Skateboarding headed to Sharjah, UAE, February 2023 Last month saw a groundbreaking double-header skateboarding event take place over two weekends in the Arabian Gulf. The WST World Championships are big staging posts on skateboarding’s road to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and with worldwide…
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World Street Skateboarding Championing in Rome Setting the Bar As noted elsewhere on the Rad Season site in recent days, summer 2022 has seen international air travel return to pre-pandemic levels, which is surely driven by people naturally wanting to get back into actively living and experiencing the wonder of…
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Lucy Adams has Become an Emblem of British Skateboarding These days you see girls skating everywhere, but that wasn’t the case when Lucy Adams started out skating around Sussex back in 1997. In the intervening 24 years Lucy was not only a pioneer of women’s skateboarding in the UK but…
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Czechia is a festival republic. Seriously, if there was one place in the world that benefited from the knock-on effect of the Criminal Justice Bill and Prague’s synchronous acquisition of the crown of global 1990’s slacker capital, it was here. Summertime in the Czech Republic is one festival after another,…
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By now almost 2 decades into their tenure as Europe’s only winter skate and BMX event, Tallinn, Estonia’s Simple Session have their organisation humming like a finely-tuned engine. If you are unfamiliar with the Simple Session jamboree, it is a weekend based around a sports arena on the outskirts of…
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Join a Hidden Spanish Skate and Surf Community Homies Surf and Skate is a shorefront community business in El Palmar, Vejer del la Frontera, in South-Western Andalusia, Spain. This is a very different Spain from the concrete coastal sprawl of the Med; hidden by geography, perhaps, or half-forgotten - and…
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Action sports contest circuits are a funny thing. They are a little bit like Vice Media, insofar as the self-appointed tastemakers of any particular scene claim not to follow either, and yet the happenings within both everyone seems strangely aware of. Hmmm. The power of social media to leave them…
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The Mystic Cup was a skateboarding institution back when the old European summer circuit was part of the global culture. Legends were enshrined at this laid-back, bohemian skate contest now into its 23rd year which takes place on Stvanice island on the river Vltava in the Czech Republic which snakes…
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The Battle Of Hastings are separate BMX and skate contests hosted by Source Park, the world’s largest underground skate and bmx park which is housed in a former Victorian bath-house underneath the promenade of the seaside town of Hastings in Sussex, England. The park owners have a long and storied…
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