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Skateboarding Stuff in Folkestone, Kent*

Folkestone, Kent Skateboard Shops, Skateparks, Skate Ramps, Waxed Curbs, Rails, Where to Buy Decks, Parts, Shoes

Skateboarding Spots

• Don't even bother boarding in Sainsburys car park now! There are CCTV camera so they see us and kick us out straight away!
• hythe green has a local skate board park which the council has made for the youths
• avoid the folkestone skatebard park, its just a funbox
• outside hop kweng, sainsburys, harbour, skatepark
• folkestone sports centre has just built a cool skateboard park
• Sainsbury curbs are super fun. Best place for beginers because of the smooth surface and grindy metal curbs. Folkestone park is good too, but expensive.
• Dat 1 nr da Sports Centre, only just been finished!! Loadsa ranps n grinds 2 try out1!!! Take a look >>>>>>.
• The Sk8 Park next to the Folkestone Sports Centre. Its only recently been finished, and there's all sorts of ramps, and grinds to try out! Take a look!
• the new skatepark at the sport centre is really good, the radnor fountain used to be good, thers a really cool flatbank round the back of iceland, nice curved marble benches in town centre, sainsburys carpark, leas carpark's got some nice ledges, magistrates court, marborough court has a nice 6 set, kingsnorth gardens has some 6 sets and nice rails, check em out
• Well, then ure a fucking geek then aren't ya mate!!
• I work in sainsburys and its not really the staff that are that botthered about the skating (unless they cause damage) i must get 5-10 complaints from people a day about "those damn kids skating up stairs" one old bloke came in to complain so i said to him that "im sure you got up to mischeif when you were their age" so he then decided to ring up my manager to complain about my rudeness!! when they do complain i just say that i will tell the security guard but i never do.
• Herdson Road near the Harvey Grammar. All the Harvey and Girls Grammar grungers+sk8rs meet on this corner.
• the skate park at the sport centre is good to learn tricks and practice they still havent finished it though.
• sainsburys car park!
• golden valley put the ploke in da while chair shop get grupy if u jump da stairs
• Loads of big empty car parks in the evening.
• sainsbury's is still cool to skate if u use ur head about it! only use it in winter (i mean who wnats to skate indoors when the sun is out!!!) and dont go in there with about 50 mates, if u keep it minimal leave it till 7ish and avoid the cars they pretty much leave u to it .........that aside its still shit!!!! but the new curved benches in town look nice. made of marble jus gotta dodge the pikies and scum bags!!!
• It would appear according to Asda that they have no further plans to build a Asda store in folkestone!! And You can check the planning permisson info on the council webiste, there is nothing on asda!!!
• It turns out that the lights in the Sainsburys town centre car park will go off at 9:00pm anywaym so we might as well skateboard in the leas cliff hall cark park!!
• DO NOT SKATEBOARD IN SAINSBURYS, they are getting soo annoyed with us doing it that they are most likely to start calling the police now!!! Go somewhere where its safer!
• Regarding the Sainsburys car park in town for skating. TOTALLY POINTLESS now that some moron decided to go and cut the bar off the fire exit so that they couldn't lock it at night has made them worse than ever! There is a brand new thicker, stronger bar in place which gets locked with an anchor point lock now, and if you insist on staying when they are locking the car park, they will simply lock you in!! Better to goto elsewhere so you dont get thrown out or locked in!
• Don't even bother going to the Sainsburys in towns car park, they chuck you out well quick now, and they lock the fire exit at night so you can't even sneak back in!
• The majistrates court - 2set and 4set Top of bouverie rd west - 6set (oaps home) b quick coz u get chucked off Sainburys Car park 1st floor The leas (good 4 cruisin) Leas Indoor car park (Up the road from Activ) Radnor park fountain at central station
• SAINSBURYS in folkestone is not great for skateboarding! It pisses the staff and security off, and you get chucked out when the shop closes!!
• SAINSBURYS, MAGISTRATES, THE FOUNTAIN, KINGSNORTH GARDENS (STAIRS), (ACTUALLY FOLKESTONE IS SHIT DONT SK8 IT GO TO LONDON)
• Sainsburys (in town) by Hop kweng
• Nowhere. You have to go to the skatepart in Ashford or somewhere.
• There is talk of a skateboard but it's all got bogged down. STay off the Leas and the West End -the police will nab ya!
• Sports centre.
• Folkestone Magistrates court. Very good for grinding etc.
• Victory's House curbs. Sainsbury's banked walls. The bollock banks and mini, mini, mini, half-pipe.

Skateboard Shops

• you have to go look in sport shops such as landal skie and argos cataloge caters for them now in the sports section
• active
• Boardwalk, Cheriton Place, and Activ next to Marrins Bookshop
• Active ~ Does allsorts, like Quicksilver, Animal and Roxy
• Go to ACTIVE in the top part of Folkestone Highstreet. They sell Quicksilver, Animal and many more.
• theres a new-ish shop called boardwalk near sainsburys, thats quite good but staff are gay, activs ok nowadays but a little expensive, renhams sells some good skate stuff, but i recommend Wrekless in Ashford, really good staff, know what there on about, good range of everything, reasonable priced, general good skateshop
• activ
• use wreckless in trahford, they got a good range of decks and will try and get in what u want if u ask nicely!!
• Sainsburys wont in town centre wont close down, as the Sainsburys HQ has already decided not to!! Also the park farm sainsburys could only be built on the condition that the town centre store stays open!!
• Actually sainsburys will not be outta business!! they are gonna be open for AT LEAST 3 YEARS, if ASDA DOES GET ITS PLANNING PERMISSION, if it doesn't then SAINSBURYS will STAY OPEN! They are already spending load of money on the shop!! The Asda planning permission didnt get submitted when it was supposed to be! bear in mind that they would have to compete with the other Supermarkets in folkestone (2 x Sainsburys, Safeway (now Morrisons - one of asdas big competitors on price) tesco and Iceland. the chances are they will goto Dover as the only supermarkets there is kwiksave and iceland.
• we probably wont be able to skate in sainsburys much longer anyway cos they are gonna build a massive asda literally next door, which means sainsburys is gonna be outta business!! best to find somewhere else now!
• Activ (Sandgate road) - Bloody Expensive
• Majestrates 2 set and 4 set. Bouverie rd west at the top, decent ish 6 set. be quick coz u get chucked off well quick Sainsburys car park 1st floor Radnor park fountain
• Aktiv I spose
• Good place on Sandgate Road - good deals to be had
• Well i wouldn't call it a skate shop but it does that kinda stuff. Active is right near Blockbusters and sells Animal,Quicksilver and stuff like that. They are more surf and bikes than skateing though.

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Last updated: 2006-12-11