For the first time ever, the UK portion of the Wild in the Parks tour stopped in London. Mile End skatepark was the destination and the sun shone all day for a solid session with the locals, visiting crews and Parlour Skate Store folks. For those of you who have yet to visit - the plaza at Mile End is an incubator for the next generation of street skaters. With ledges, banks, hips and gaps of all types the ability to destroy the place requires a little more board control than your average back and forth style park to stand out from the crowd. The sheer volume of flip in, flip out and switch tricks which went down during the session is testament to this. After some coffees (...and they really know how to knock one of these up. Highly recommended) with the Parlour boys, Ben Raemers, Harry Lintell, Kris Vile, Gav Coughlan and our regular Featured Artist friend French took to their judges seats for the day. ...and the Under 14's division was on! The hip and the Grom Gap (Or Gromsbad as it was renamed for this session) were the favourites for these guys. Hips and Gaps mean flip tricks - and it seemed that most went away with what they tried. For the 15 and over crew, things got a little more heated. As I am sure you can see via the footage - Daniel West owned this division. He skates the bank like a pro and nonchalantly throws out ledge tricks like it just doesn't require any thinking about. The Five O to Switch K all the way along the bank and over hip is no joke. Niall Creaney was no joke, either. He's happy to flip into anything he likes on the ledge and has a style more suited to cruising towards the pub rather than the robotic technician his trick list might suggest on paper. The Pro/Am division was the one everyone was waiting for, though. Charlie Birch was the youngest in the group by a good 4 years - and he showed why he should be involved here, shredding every obstacle. Kelley Dawso