Can you believe we put a mini ramp in a 700 year old medieval monument?! Amy suggested it, half joking... then we decided to ask Mia at GHT if we could do it, and she said yes!<\/p>
Once we had the go ahead we put a message out to our community to see if anyone could help us source a ramp as ideally we wanted to borrow one, although we got a \u00a32000 bursary we had already budgeted how to spend this, and ramps are expensive!<\/p>
One of our community members, Em has skated with the crew at Malmesbury Skate Park and let us know that they had a mini ramp and suggested we reach out to them. Matt from the group was up for helping us out and let us borrow the mini for free! (what a legend) He was super excited to help us out.<\/p>
A 150 mile round trip later and we had it!<\/p>
We wanted to turn the space into something more active, and give our community a sick place to skate. We wanted to bring the vibes and show Southampton how much fun skating is!<\/p>
As part of the exhibition we were hosting lots of free skate sessions<\/u><\/a>, some lessons and a jam on the opening night. Our content makes some men angry, they don\u2019t seem to like us celebrating girls, women and the queer community skating. And even less so us celebrating beginners.<\/p> Because of this our posts often receive negative comments, some more hateful than others. Sometimes it\u2019s difficult to know if we should interact with these comments, we\u2019re hopeful that we can start a conversation and understand why the troll is getting so mad about what we are posting. Unfortunately, more often than not, this doesn\u2019t happen and we get more abuse.<\/p> We find we get more negative comments when we are highlighting experiences we have had and usually get told that we are not sharing the truth.<\/p> You won\u2019t see these comments on any of our posts. We decided to remove them. 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