Places you can go to learn to skate, refresh your old skating skills, get some skatey-exercise, build your confidence or get a bit adventurous. For those with their own skates or needing to hire, here's a round-up of the nearest spots...and THEN, join us!
Smooth and flat.
This vintage postcard shows the epic Hoe Promenade in all its glory and except for the long gone Pier, nothing has changed. There's tons of space to skate even on a busy summer day and plenty of parking around the area. Find it here. Bring a picnic with your skates and make it a long session!
Roller Discos
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Small and friendly disco held at our training venue hall in Plymouth, once a month by the Roller Hockey team.
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Torbay area based Revolution Skate have 3 indoor venues and an awesome outdoor Velo-Park too!
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Exeter based ReBoot Roller Disco have a variety of sessions to choose from.
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Sk8House hold HUGE, very busy, Saturday roller discos.
Skating Rinks....yes!....they exist!
All of these options offer a variety of different session types for all ages and of course, skate hire. Perfect for getting your confidence up if you're trying to decide whether to come and join us.
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North Devon Arena is in Illfracombe.
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Born To Skate is a 'pop-up' rink outfit based in Barnstaple.
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Rollers Roller Rink is in Redruth.
Skate Parks nearby
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Plymouth Central Park skate park (see pic' left). You'd be surprised how much flat smooth space there is to practice on in many outdoor parks if you don't fancy the more adventurous aspects.
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SaltMill skate park (outdoors) in Saltash near the bridges..
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Prime skate park (indoors) in Plymouth's Coxside. Variety of sessions.
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Junkyard Skatepark in Saltash (indoors) is for those of you who like vert!
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Hundreds more places to skate can be found using this handy website.