ON8 BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, 2025

The skate community is one of the most diverse spaces in the city — every race, religion, age, and sexuality are represented and welcomed. The only price of admission is the tarmac tax: the willingness to fall, get up, and skate again.

In these increasingly polarised times, when parties like Reform would have you believe the streets of London are overrun by danger and disorder, the reality on the ground tells another story entirely. In car parks and side streets, in empty basketball courts, skaters of all generations gather to share freedom, flow, and the pure rush of flying around a circuit without brakes.