Kris Vile – frontside nollie, Redditch, 2016

On a freezing cold mission to wrap up Henry Fox’s First Light feature last year, Kris Vile and a few other Birmingham locals headed slightly south into the land of roundabouts; Redditch. This area of town and this bank in particular iare notorious in local skate folklore as the drinking establishment that lays just out of frame, The Woodrow, is just about the last place you’d want to end up. The bank itself is almost as rough at the pub…

As I was setting my flashes up, two dudes dressed like they were straight out of the Breaking Bad mobile home came out of that metal door behind Kris and I heard one of them mutter “well that’s all the blood cleaned up at least”. Right, get it landed and we can get the fuck outta here! Another overly productive UK dude who always has a ton of spare photos on file.

Will Lowe – front board, Wolverhampton, 2017

It’s no secret that the long, damp winters in the UK make street skating near enough impossible for several months each year. Will Lowe travelled from Stoke with Jordan Sharkey and the only dry ground in the whole of Wolverhampton town centre was the slabs outside of this college. Zero run up and zero run out, but Will got his photo – props!

Joe Habgood – backside disaster to sugarcane, Bristol, 2017

Puttin’ the G in OG, Joe Habgood has been a magazine stalwart since his youth with everything from his iconic RAD Magazine cover right through his various Sidewalk covers and contribution as our very own Bear (answering reader’s letters whilst we were still a printed medium). I spent a few days in a van with the travelling Santa Cruz Skateboards team whilst they were in the UK, popping into the Shiner HQ (distributors of Santa Cruz in the UK and Europe) to pick up some of the latest product and stretch their legs before the Bath demo. Always keen for a quick ‘skate break’ from his day to day job at Shiner, Joe got stuck into the session on the main transition at the TF. Good to see you shred mate, true legend!

Jordan Lightowler – switch heelflip, Worcester, 2017

Arrrgh yes, the ever-recognisable yellow edging and ever awful tarmac of Worcester’s Pitchcroft Racecourse stairs. They’ve had the ass ripped out of them by many over the years but still offer one of the only bust free places to try and shoot a photo locally for me. On this particular day I needed Jordan to keep popping ollies down the set, with me shooting various different set ups and settings to demonstrate the basics of skateboard photography for a ‘how to’ guide I was working on. At the end of the session he threw a lofty, colour co-ordinated switch heelflip just for the sake of doing so.

Dom Henry – switch crook, Manchester, 2014

Yes, that’s a HUF X Wu Tang American Football jersey! My only real memories of this particular mission were that it was as hot as hell and the tarmac was like a lump of gritty cheese. In on the session was Lewis Threadgold, who landed a frontside nosegrind revert alongside Dom’s switch crook.

Sam Beckett – indy fastplant fakie, Livi, 2017

I shot this during the Sidewalk X Monster Energy Concrete Dinosaurs; a trip which took us around some of the remaining 1970’s concrete skateparks of the UK. Livingston was our last and most productive stop of the week. Having been rained out on our first day and with threats of a further downpour in those clouds surrounding him, Sam Beckett got this indy fastplant to fakie shot before the heavens opened.