Welcome to boardriders.co.uk -the official website of Ocean Sports Board Riders, the legendary boardsport outlet store in Hove (nr Brighton). If you're looking for outlet priced surf, snow or skate gear from guys who know what they're talking about then come see us!
We've been around since 1989 and we know our stuff. We specialise in both latest season surfing, snowboarding and skate hardware, clothing and accessories - plus discount outlet priced deals.
Whether you're looking to buy or service a snowboard, skateboard, surfboard or purchase a wetsuit, we have the experience and knowledge you would expect to find in the UK's no.1 boardsport store. We are also the largest wetsuit stockist in the UK with over 4000 wetsuits in stock.
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We carry an extensive range of technical clothing and accessories as well as the latest surf and skate fashion lines for men and kids. Open 7 days a week we are here to help and give sound advice, so come down and take advantage of our convenient free parking. See you soon!
Win a Go Pro HD Hero 2 Outdoor Edition Camera!
Fancy a free Go Pro HD Hero 2 Outdoor Edition Camera? We'll here's your chance... We're giving away one of these top of the range, latest edition action cameras (worth a whopping £300!) on our Facebook Competition.
GoPro cameras are used by more professional athletes, sports filmmakers and core enthusiasts than any other camera in the world. Wearable and gear mountable, waterproof to 60m, capable of capturing professional full 170º wide angle 1080p video and 11 megapixel photos at a rate of 10 photos per second, the HD HERO2 is the world’s most versatile camera.
To enter the Go-Pro HD Hero 2 Camera competition and win this awesome prize head over to our Facebook page Facebook.com/BoardridersGuide and LIKE our page to become a fan (if you're not one already!)
You'll see the competition post at the top of our wall - just LIKE & SHARE the competition wall post to enter the prize draw!
Entry closes at Midday on Friday 31st May 2012 and the winner of the Go Pro HD Hero 2 Outdoor Edition Camera will be announced on Facebook.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
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Ocean Sports team rider and Brighton legend Cliff Cox had the surf trip of a lifetime recently to Hawaii’s North Shore. |
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Wear your lids!
OLD SKOOL DAYZ 2 – SUNDAY 2ND OCTOBER, 2011
This weekend sees the 2nd Annual Old Skool Dayz retro skate day down at Shoreham Skate Park. The Park has already hosted everyone from Tony Hawk to Darren Navarrette to Ben Raemers – this day is for guys that skated back in the day (and probably still skating now…)
There will be lots of retro skating on retro boards – plus a vintage skateboard display, skate raffle, t-shirt shack and pizza stall. So if you were skating in the 70’s and 80’s then this is for you….
Get down to Old Skool Days 2 – this Sunday from 10.30am: Ham Skate Park, The Ham, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 6PW
FACEBOOK EVENT: details click here
HAM JAM – SUNDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2011
What a day...... the weather really wasn’t on our side this time but the vibe meant the crowd weren’t going to give up - when the sun finally did come out the skating was some of the best we have seen at Shoreham so far - Big thanks to everyone that stuck with it despite the rain, all those who helped with drying the bowl and of course to Geordie for 110% Effort..... Ocean Sports crew Emmett, Alex, Eden, Josh and Marley were skating really well. Glad to hear James is on the mend after his slam too
The whole thing was mad but highlights for us... Oakley going so high... seeing T-bag skate... and anything that involved those pool steps...
See you at Shoreham next time it stops raining...!
"Skate Till You Puke edit" is on MAS "Videos section" - here too if you haven't seen it yet:
With registration from 10am the skate park facility in Shoreham-by-Sea for a second year will witness some of the best UK Professional Skateboarders competing for a share in £1000 of prize money at second Annual HAM JAM Skateboard festival. As sponsored by Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Trucks and Ocean Sports Boardriders (Kings way, Hove) with additional Bones Wheels and OJ Wheels.
Opened in May, 2010, Shoreham skatepark on Ham Road (off Eastern Avenue) has quickly established itself as one of the leading skateboard facilities in the country. The Skatepark and more specifically the ‘bowled area’ has attracted some of the best skateboarders in the world (Tony Hawk) and has raised the bar for local authority skate park provisions in the UK.
This is the second year of the Ham Jam and the event organised for the skate park and its local community. Not only will this event give the opportunity to celebrate the success of the local skateboard user group, but it will also be a chance to peek into the future and get a glimpse into what this facility will provide for the area and its users.
The fist skateboard ‘Jam’ will commence at midday for the Under 16’s category, with the Masters Category (over 40) at 1.30pm and the PRO/AM category running from 3pm.
For those that choose to come and join in with the celebrations there will be Music with live DJ, MC’ing of the event, as well as prizes and give aways from sponsors for both athletes and spectators. Expect to see a superior spectacle of skateboarding with massive Ariel manoeuvres, ridiculous technical tricks and an abundance of the best skateboarders in the UK (if not some of the best in the world).
Skate with DEATH!! The footage!
The Death Skateboards Tour hit Shoreham Bowl last Sunday 10th July. Here’s a great edit from camera man extraordinaire Geordie, featuring skating from Benson, Aaron Sweeney, Lee Blackwell, Greg Nowik, Sean Goff, Jim the Skin, Joe Atkins, Mike Day, Iain Young, Jake Snelling, Jo Howard, Eden (On Board Riders..) James Breeze, Stevie Thompson. Other Board Riders skaters Marley, Emmett and Josh were there too skating really well.. of course!
Vote for our very own Quiksilver boardshorts!!! - GET LIKING!
Have you voted for our custom Quiksilver boardshorts yet? Seen the pics? Wanna know what it’s all about? Well…..
Quiksilver have a select few surf shops around the world called ‘Union Stores’ – one of which is Ocean Sports, Brighton (US!). This summer all European ‘Union’ stores were given the opportunity to design their own exclusive Quiksilver boardshorts with a free reign to design a boardshort that reflects where they are from and their store…
We thought a little outside the box for our design, choosing to draw from Brighton’s 60’s MOD heritage – inspired by aspects of MOD culture from the iconic scooter to the fishtail parka. MOD’s used to keep their sharp suits clean while out on their scooters! Our shorts feature army green coloring with badge style initials, targets, retro music images and scooter embroidery, along with black & white checks and red white & blue eyelets.
Quiksilver have only produced approx 200 pairs of each short worldwide – so they are pretty unique. Each store has a bunch of their own shorts, plus a limited run of six pairs of each of the other Union Store shorts in store now – so call in and have a look.
Quiksilver are running a competition amongst the Union Stores that designed shorts via Facebook, the idea being we ask Ocean Sports friends to vote for the short they think is the best (ours ours ours!!!)
So help us achieve victory over the other shops and
CLICK THIS LINK: http://union.quiksilver-europe.com/boardshort.php?b=17 and LIKE our shorts!! Then go tell your friends to do the same - yeeeeaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Big thank you in advance to all ‘likers’
Skate with DEATH! Sunday 10th July @ Ham Skate Park
Feels like we only just said bye to the Creature guys, now the Death skate team rock up! It's a hard life! If you wanna meet and skate with the Death guys then get yourself down to Shoreham Skate Park this Sunday 10th July.
Due to appear = Benson,Steak,Rhys Grogan, Boots, Moggins, Ronny Calow, Adam Moss, Mikey Patrick, Timmy Garbett, Craig Questions (Death Urethane), Greg Nowik (Death Urethane), Aaron Sweeney (Death Urethane), Kev the Plasterer (Death Urethane), Cov Sid (Death Urethane) + (hopefully) special guest/s! + rocking tunes from DJ Random Shuffl
Aftershow head down to The Hydrant, Preston Circus and catch U.S BOMBS playing!
More info available on Facebook:
head to http://www.facebook.com/BoardridersGuide#!/event.php?eid=231086360245579
or on the Shoreham Skate Park website - http://www.shorehamskatepark.co.uk/?p=1465
We'll see you Sunday!
Paddle Round the Pier - THIS WEEKEND
The Ocean Sports Mobile Skate Store is on the road again, this weekend we're at Paddle Round the Pier Brighton. As they have three mini ramps there this year, plus the slalom skating, we're gonna be right next to the ramps and the slalom skating. Our team riders Jez, Paul, Marley, Emmett, Josh and Eden will all be representing this weekend - you won't miss them as they'll all be rocking the new shop skate tees.
Witchcraft team riders Jamie Morley, Garret McNevin, Max, French, Nico, and Joe Habgood will be at Saturday's Pro Jam. Witchcraft's artist / owner "French" is going to put some of his infamous artwork on a blank deck which will then be auctioned on the day - all proceeds go to the paddle charities. . Prizes have been rolling in all week from Death, Vans, Shiner, Santa Cruz, Independent, Surrey Skateboards, Dwindle so the tricks for prizes jams are going to be off the dial...
The skate store will be jammed full of new stuff from the likes of Creature, Witchcraft, Real, Indy, Krooked, Bones.... We'll have a big range of longboards from Loaded and Santa Cruz plus old school favourites from G&S, Powell, Alva and more. There will also be lots of deals on the day on Santa Cruz tees and hoodies so come and say hi.
Don't forget to check out the slalom skating too which is happening right on the sea front - this year they have two start ramps plus drag strip style lights watch some of the best slalom skateboarders in the Uk in action. For more info on everything that's happening at the Paddle this weekend check out www.paddleroundpier.com
Ocean Sports Save The Day! Creature Crue-sades Visit
Here’s some pictures of the Creature USA / UK skateboard team visit to Ocean Sports 12th June. Shoreham locals waited all day for the weather to break and a chance to see Creature pros skate their park - but with the downpour showing no let up it wasn’t going to happen…!
We had a quick re-think and a convoy was formed to truck locals back to our shop, Ocean Sports, where we opened up and arranged to meet there.
After the obligatory board, t shirt, hat, sticker toss outside Woodies Diner the creature team including Al Partanen, Darren Navarrette, Taylor Bingaman, Sam Hitz, Alex Horn, Adrian Mallory, Stu Graham, Carl Wilson, Colin Adam and Ben Divine rolled into the store to meet with the few lucky locals.
Pros signed boards, t shirts, bits of boards etc and spent time hanging out which was very cool and much respected considering they had only arrived in the UK that morning and had come via Hastings!
Determined to get some skating in, the Creature guys made a 'weather permitting' promise to get down to the bowl the next day. Fingers were crossed for fine weather for the next morning – we got the call just after 9am that Emmett and Geoff had hand dried the bowl and it was now skateable! Phew! We made a quick call to the Creature Crew to give them the heads up and the session was on.
News went round like wild fire -lets just say school attendance records took a dip that day!
The Creature USA and UK team skated with the Shoreham locals from 11 till 3 – the pictures below tell the story.
Pictures Courtesy of Shoreham Skate Park / Geoff Mckeown
Big thank-you to Jerome Shiner / Creature Team for visiting us and all the Freebies – Jelly, Andy Geoff and Steve for getting everyone to the Shop!
Lots more shots on : www.shorehamskatepark.co.uk
Creature Team to Hit Shoreham Bowl - Sunday 12th June
You've probably heard already....but if not, the Creature Team are visiting Shoreham Skate Park to skate the infamous bowl this Sunday! This is the American Creature team plus members of the UK team too!
It's all part of the 'Creature Crue-sades' tour (see poster). A one off opportunity to see some of the best skaters in the world skate your local park - not to be missed!
So, if you fancy a quiet roll in the bowl Sunday you'd best head off to Crawley as the Ham is gonna be mobbed!
Powell Peralta want YOUR pics n vids!
Did you skate the 80's? Fancy your five minutes of fame c/o Powell Peralta?
Do you have video or a photo at a contest or demo during the 80's of Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Mike McGill, Tommy Guerrero, Rodney Mullen, Mike Vallely and/or Ray Barbee? If so it's time to get under the bed dig through your old boxes....!
Skate ledgends Powell-Peralta are working on a new documentary and want to include some of the international highlights of their world tours and contests from the 80’s.
They're looking for footage or pictures that they can include.
If you have something that you'd like to be considered for the Powell-Peralta Documentary, send a jpg of it along with your name and address to ppfb@skateone.com. If they choose your picture/video and use it, you'll get a photo credit in the documentary.
O'Neill Freak Academy, Brighton - WIN GOLDEN TICKETS!
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Back in the day! What were you doing 10 years ago?
Take a step back in time with us...we've found a stack of our old catalogues from back in the day! Before boardridersguide.com existed there was Board Riders Guide the mail order catalogue (yep we've been around a while eh!) and though it seems like only yesterday, the pics look so retro now! We've had a good old giggle at some of the fashions (mmm baggy trousers!) and theres some snaps of the shop and how it used to look.
Here's a few of the pics (below) - to see a slideshow of the full set CLICK HERE
