OK, here’s our Copelands Events Schedule for July 2026: Film night – Weds 8th Second Wednesdays is Film night at Copelands with Lochie. This month we are showing San Francisco Burning from Spitfire Wheels and Thrashermag. If you missed it, you can watch it online now! Viewing is free. Please pay for the skate sesh. […]
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Copelands under 16’s shop team
We are happy to announce the launch of our under 16’s shop team at Copelands skateshop. We are keen to support up and coming riders in South London, and we will be selecting our shop team from our newly announced sponsorship pathway. How can I join the team? You can join the sponsorship programme by […]
Continue readingJune Events at Copelands Skatepark
We’ve just published our June timetable of events, including new regular nights for you. We will be publishing an updated timetable for you each month from now on, so you know what’s happening. Launch of new monthly events at Copelands We are adding to our monthly schedule at Copelands, adding to established sessions, like Blades […]
Continue readingSchool of Skate Copelands 3rd Birthday Event
We are 3 years old!! We are launching our Sponsorship pathway and will be making a special announcement about the first member of our under 16’s shop team. Please prebook the events you will be attending below! (There’s up to three!!) We are launching regular monthly nights like: comp night open mic open decks ping […]
Continue readingUnder 16’s sponsorship pathway launch
We are stoked to announce the launch of our under 16’s sponsorship pathway! You will have seen recently our new Progressing ramp & street programme tracker cards at our Copelands site. You may be wondering what happens when you complete the progressing ramp & street pathways – well, that leads to our sponsoredship pathway. What […]
Continue readingSkate mums morning session – every 3rd Weds
Following the success of our skate Dads morning session on a Wednesday, we’ve decided to do one for the Mums. In collaboration with the London Skate Mums we are going to be doing an open skate session at Copelands every third Weds. The sessions runs 9am – 11am. You can book the open session on […]
Continue readingWoodward Skate Camp 2026
We are partnering with Woodward camps this year to offer you the chance to go to Woodward Pennsylvania for a 6 days trip. With features like: Indoor & outdoor skateparks Mini-mega ramp Go-kart track Check out the Woodward PA Camp highlights of 2025. We are looking at 4 potential weeks from late July to early […]
Continue readingBeginner Skate Coaching Cheat Sheet
This cheatsheet is for running beginner group classes with students of a similar level with reference to our lesson plan. For coaches; these are the instructions you will say the most to students during a beginner class, in order of frequency and importance from 1 – 9, and reasoning behind them. For students, these are […]
Continue readingProgressing lessons vs sessions
In an effort to get you skating more, we recently introduced progression sessions for members. We’ve had some misunderstandings about the progressing lessons and sessions at Copeland Park so we wanted to clarify some points for you. When booking, whilst they cost the same, please note the important differences between a session and a lesson. PROGRESSING LESSONS A […]
Continue readingRamp & Street Progressing Tracker Cards
For a while now we’ve been doing some research on tricks, where they originated, and how they developed. We did a series of interviews and used card sorting (see pics), a technique we have used previously working in the technology industry, to discover relationships between tricks, to start to firm up a trick hierarchy or […]
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