After a year with their ramps in the back car park of the Island Bowl, the Guernsey Xtreme Sports Association has to move again – in just a fortnight. GXSA member P J De La Mare ponders the move while Jack Saunders takes air. (Picture by Pete Frankland, 0750336)

THE Guernsey Xtreme Sports Association is looking for a new site for its temporary skatepark.

Its ramps have been behind the Island Bowl for the past year but now the car park is needed for events such as the Muratti.

‘We are very grateful to Harry O’Neil, manager of the Island Bowl, for all his support,’ said GXSA chairman Mike O’Hara.

‘However, all things must come to an end and the Island Bowl needs the car park.’

The GXSA has just two weeks to quit. ‘If we cannot find a home for all sections of the skatepark, then we will have no option but to dismantle it,’ said PJ De La Mare of the GXSA, who said people used the ramps all year round. ‘This would be a great pity as it provides such an enjoyable facility. We’re ideally looking for a tarmac or concrete site which is solid and level.

‘We can have half at one site and half at another – it doesn’t necessarily need to be together.’