Rampworx Inline Summer Clinic
By Dale Travers

As most of my adventures start, i received an email from Be-mag asking me if id like to head to Liverpool to shoot for a week with Brian Aragon, Chaz Sands, Jenna Downing and Steve Swain during the annual Rampworx Summer Teaching Clinic. I met most of the guys from Rampworx in the first month of moving to the UK as it was a must stop on my skating tour last year. Ian from Rampworx was organizing everything including hotels and travel so there was no way i was going to miss this.

Starting on Wednesday, i caught the train from London to Liverpool (2hrs 30) and made it to the park. Already on the first day, Brian just got off a 10hr flight and was skating to beat his jet lag, Chaz, Steve and Jenna were sessioning everything and already get used to the huge skatepark. Brian informed me he just got home from another trip long enough to wash his clothes and pack and get to the airport to catch his flight. Chaz was in Spain and had to change his flight to make it and Jenna just got in from Cali were she competed in an all girl street comp. A 2 hr train ride seemed like nothing compared to their busy schedule and i didn’t even have to skate.

Getting all the Kids together

Jenna, Topacid true mizou

The teaching began with everyone getting broken up into groups then rotating around the park and with different pro’s. Soo many kids had signed up but almost everyday turning up late. The Rampworx team consisting of Matt D, Ian and Tony all put in allot of hard work to make this clinic happen. Ian was telling me about he had to pitch the idea of the clinic to the council so they would help fly Brian over for the clinic. Matt and I were in the office on our laptops when we weren’t filming and shooting out in the park. Si was on filming for a podcast, Tony was on nice healthy lunches for the kids and Ian was overall trying to work things out. We spent 3 days filming, teaching and shooting, the skaters skated hard, i mean they were sweating after about 10 mins and kept this going all day. Most days just ended up with a session with the kids and even some them would start pushing themselves and try new tricks and progress. Here’s a few of the best photos from around the park.

Brian Aragon boosting a Parallel 540

Steve Swain, Backslide

I’m not sure if it was the big night out in Liverpool we had on Friday night or that these guys were really stuffed and injured from the 3 days before, but the Sat session didn’t quite go to plan as Brian was not feeling well at all. The same was for Jenna and Chaz but they powered through it and had a good session. Both killing the bowl with long grinds and amazing switch-ups. Steve Swain was a power house all weekend, this kid had his skates on the whole time, even through lunch we had to tell him to stop and eat. Here’s some photos.

Steve Swain, Huge Flat spin 360

Chaz Sands,360 topacid to truetopacid

Andy Gilbert, full cab topacid, 540 out

Jenna Styling out a topacid on the new Sub-box

One of my favourite shots of the week, Brian Aragon, Fakie Wallride over the channel into the mini ramp
Sat night, Ian was amazing setting up dinner for all of us in the city and pre-drinks at the bar. Everyone was really greatful for his hospitality by drinking the night away before we all heading back to respected homes on Sunday.

Somehow i ended up with the biggest hotel room in the place, Chaz, Me,Jenna, Matt D, Si and Brian

Dinner

This is the line-up at the Tequila Bar in Liverpool. Just about any flavour shot,1 pound!!

From the Left, Chaz, Brian, Jenna Me and Krisztina at the Tequila Bar. Brian got a coffee shot which tasted shit..

I really have allot of respect and gratitude for Ian and Matt for hooking me up with a sweet hotel room and lifts in cars all week. I’d suggest to anyone, if they get a chance, get to Liverpool and experience Rampworx. The night life in Liverpool is just as wicked. Slamm Jamm 10 is coming in 2 months promising pro’s from all over the world for the skating and one awesome party as well. Get there anyway you can. The skatepark is huge and they are working on building new things for the comp.

This is Tony, One of the organizes of the clinic. Nice Guy
Here’s all the details for Rampworx.
http://rampworx.com
We did live updates for Be-mag each day so everyone could see what was happening, Check em out here. I thought I’d put up quality pics rather than quantity on the updates
http://be-mag.com/articles/show/1240