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Post by Belle Pullman on Apr 15, 2007 22:01:05 GMT
Hyde Park is very skater friendly, you get everything in there - quads, blades, skateboards, ski-skates (those are wierd! skis with wheels on the ends!) any invention to put motion on the bottom of people's feet... plus there's horse rides going through every now and then so it's best not to scare them. The road surface it ok - quite sloping and a bit gravelly in places tho. But there's loads of grass and benches for stopping at too.
Seeing Wicked? cool! It's a fantastic show, and the theatre is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Unrecognisable from its StEx days, when it was all black and red... it's just gorgeous now.
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Post by Ceri on Apr 15, 2007 22:05:28 GMT
Hyde Park sounds like a great place for skating! Wish I lived closer!
I had the chance to see Wicked and I didn't go...and now I feel like a fool for not going, because everyone who's seen it says it's great! Hehehe, sounds like another theatre trip is in order...! ^.^
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Post by Jewel on Apr 15, 2007 22:12:43 GMT
In that case: wish Hyde Park was a bit closer! Okay, it's not that far away, but it's not really close enough to have a spontaneous skate-around for an hour or so! Was outside skating for quite some time today because the weather was so nice. We're looking for a better place to skate in Guildford at the moment, only been skating outside our house and at Sutherland Park so far. Not very exciting... (but still fun) Am rather excited about Wicked actually, will be the first time I see a musical in London, so it had better be good.  |
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Post by Ceri on Apr 15, 2007 22:20:18 GMT
There's not many good places to skate in Fleet...or if there are, I haven't found them yet ^.^ There's a small skate park behind the library, but I don't have the guts to go there till I'm a bit more practiced and preferably have someone to go with. But my friend phoned me today (one of the ones who came to see StEx in Southamton with me) and told me she's just bought some inliners, and we are going out skating tomorrow afternoon  |
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Post by elsieoverthemoon on Apr 16, 2007 12:20:57 GMT
Belle:
will double check what I'm doing but I am free on the 29th (the sunday) sadly not the saturday (work, grrrr!) If the weather is good then expect to see me hurtling down towards the serpentine in Hyde Park!!!
;D ;D ;D
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Post by Wrench on Apr 16, 2007 16:49:16 GMT
Yay!
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Post by Ceri on Apr 16, 2007 20:17:58 GMT
Just been out skating ^.^ We skated around the close for about an hour and a half, me on quads and my friend on blades, and I don't reckon we're too bad Am hopefully gonna get hold of some protective gear tomorrow, or sometime soon...my fall count has risen to two, and it didn't half hurt this time ^.^ But my friend reckons that by summer we'll be better EDIT: I'm just watching this skate safety video that Jeremy posted...just out of curiosity more than anything else, does anyon know whether the helmets worn by the StEx cast are actually designed for protective purposes, or are they just for show? I know they don't wear them an awful lot, but particularly in the Bochum show where they actually race, do the helmets provide any sort of protection or are they simply costume pieces? |
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Post by Belle Pullman on Apr 16, 2007 21:44:47 GMT
The race helmets are built on top of proper crash helmets - at least, in London and Bochum they are. The live races are pretty damn fast and if something does wrong it can turn nasty pretty fast. The Engines all have proper helmets - but not the coaches. But then the coaches don't fight as much as the engines... quite...
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Post by Ceri on Apr 16, 2007 21:55:22 GMT
Thanks Belle I thought this probably was the case...I wouldn't want to be going half that speed without a helmet! Plus I suppose some of the bulky costume gear they have to wear must throw them off balance a fair bit. Anyway, thanks ^.^ |
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Post by Wrench on Apr 16, 2007 22:24:06 GMT
Wow... that video really shows how much StEx is a child of the Eighties!
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