Native Skate Store Blog

26/08/2012

Job Vacancy – P/T Sales Assistant Newcastle Upon Tyne Store

We’re hiring! Part Time Sales Assistant – Newcastle Upon Tyne We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual to work as part of our team in our Newcastle Upon Tyne Store. Having grown considerably, Native is now considered the UK’s leading Independent Skate Store, with a high percentage of the business being online. The role of Part Time Sales Assistant will also include such duties as handling customer telephone calls, processing telephone orders, picking/packing and dispatch of orders as well as general shop duties, handling cash, dealing with customers etc Candidates should... Read More

25/08/2012

Bank Holiday Opening Hours

Here we are again, another Bank Holiday weekend. We just wanted to put a quick blog post up to let you guys know our opening hours this weekend. Saturday 25/8 9am – 5.30pm Sunday 26/8 Closed Monday 27/8 11am – 4pm Tuesday 28/8 10am – 5.30pm Our online store is trading 24/7 and we’re shipping next working day as per usual. Have a great weekend!

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Polar Skateboards – New Brand!

We thought we’d give you a heads up on a new brand that we’re proud to be stocking here at www.nativeskatestore.co.uk Polar Skateboards is a new European skateboard company headed up by Pontus Alv from Sweden. It features some great art direction and quality decks. The teams super hot too and their latest pro is the UK’s own Jerome Campbell. Check out Jerome’s debut pro model deck here. Also check out the clip below of Pontus and Jerome ripping it up in Beirut on a Converse trip recently. I’m sure... Read More

13/08/2012

Urban Games Skate Event – Newcastle Life Centre 18th+19th August 2012

We’ve just had some news in from an organisation called theurbangames.org.uk They are hosting an event in the Life Centre in Newcastle Upon Tyne this coming Saturday and Sunday the 18th and 19th of August. There will be a temporary skatepark set up in the Life Centre and Skatepark Competitions throughout the weekend. Please see the below poster for more details and head on over to their website for any more info.

09/08/2012
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Palace Skateboards – New Decks

A firm favourite both instore and online here at Native is the brand Palace Skateboards. Palace hail from London,England and have a rad team consisting of Chewy Cannon, Olly Todd, Lucien Clarke, Charlie Young and Rory Milanes. They’ve created quite a bit of hype recently on the internet and their clothing is much sought after, it sells out here in minutes sometimes when it goes online. Check out the latest range of decks from Palace here and keep your eyes peeled for new clothing from these guys soon…  

27/07/2012

Vans Skate Shoes – New Delivery!

Vans are one of our best selling skate shoe brands here at Native. They have been since we opened our doors back in 2003, their waffle grip sole and clean silhouette is what makes them so popular with skaters. We’ve just had our Summer 2012 drop of Vans arrive in the warehouse this week, so we thought we’d put a blog post up to highlight them. The Core Skate line from Vans features a couple of nice colaboration shoes with Spitfire Wheels. There’s a mid top TNT 5 and a... Read More

08/07/2012

Site Update – New Products Page

We’re constantly making little tweaks and updates to the website to make it easier for you guys to use. Website functionality is really important to us here, so we regularly browse the site looking for ways to improve it. Our latest change that we’ve made that we thought we’d let you know about is the New Products page. We’ve now changed the feeds around so that any new product added to the site appears at the top of the New Products page. We get lots of deliveries here everyday so... Read More

05/07/2012

Native Skate Store Is Now On Instagram – Follow Us @nativeskate

Ok well there’s a large percentage of you out there already using Instagram, if you aren’t already using it check it out, it’s a great fun way of sharing photo’s with friends and family. The growing Iphone population is fast latching on to using this form of social networking. We’ve been bitten by the Instagram bug here at Native and regulalry send an image or two up into cyberspace for our followers to see. Sometimes it’s new products, funny things that stoke us out or sometimes it’s just general stuff.... Read More

27/06/2012

Broadcast Wheels – Brand Profile

We thought we’d give you an insight into one of our latest brands. Broadcast Wheels are a wheel brand from the US that make quality skateboard wheels, their number one priority is to make quality product so you know that when you choose a set of Broacast Wheels they’re going to be a solid ride. The Broadcast team is massive and consists of a whole host of great skateboarders like Paul Shier, Gareth Stehr, Brian Lotti, John Tanner, Ethan Fowler, Danny Falla, Kevin Coakley and more Many people argue that... Read More

19/06/2012
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Skate Helmets – S-One Lifer’s Now In Stock!

It’s always good to have decent quality protection when it’s needed. We like to offer a good range of safety gear here at Native for those who need it. We have just taken delivery of a new helmet brand for us here called S-One.  S-One may be new to us in the UK but they’re not new to the skate helmet game, they’ve been in business since 1999. So after over a decade perfecting their products the Lifer is one of the best skateboard helmet’s about. Check out our range... Read More