MSCH
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Manchester, UK |
| Website | Official website |
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| Andi Fill Matty Mike Tomm |
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MSCH or Misspent childhood. A skateboard team from Manchester, England was founded by four friends. The creation of the team took on average 6 months to get fully established. Starting with the long process of the name decision and designing the logo, once a final decision was made a website on free hosting commenced, and has been re designed and improved a number of times. The Team of School pupils has grown and expanded and are now in further education. Fully established in 2004, professionalism has always been a goal. And looking at the outcome of MSCH over the years it has come clear that this team is constantly improving in all aspects.
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[edit] Team
The team’s original line up was:
1: Andi (Andrew G)
2: Fill (Phillip E)
3: Matty (Matthew P)
4: Tomm (Thomas W)
Over a year later a fifth member joined.
5: Mike (Michael P)
[edit] The Website
The site has been re-designed, updated and improved countless times. Once the site was at the address of www.mschildhood.co.nr there was a huge boom in visitors, the site was publicized through the school of Moorside High School where the team were attending, and the address was spread around all the local schools and residents, the games section was the biggest attraction which lead to other pages being viewed and the forum being used. The address got changed to www.msch.co.nr on account of the length and this made it much easier to remember. The site had reached thousands of visitors with in a few weeks before the counter failed. The Salford council blocked the site in 2005 which sent the team’s publicity crashing, most of the regular visitors went else where leaving the hit site broken.
The team decided to scrap all unprofessional domains and bought www.mschsk8.com this site was built from the ground up once again and far more advanced than any of the previous websites, the fan base and visitors has never recovered to its previous record as publicising the new site was hard as people found it to be “old news” and the only real way of publicising was by having the word spread round to as many people as possible. Problems with hosting and poor server quality has made updating and improving near impossible so most of the factors that attracted people can not be replaced.
[edit] Media
In late 2004 the team gained full access to a video camera and filmed most sessions either out on the streets or at parks. Clips were updated to the “Media” page of the website regularly. A full length Skate DVD was planned and production took over a year and was scraped near the end of completion as the team had advanced with their skating so much the footage seemed irrelevant and the older footage was constantly being replaced. The team decided to officially stop production and decided it was a goal to aim for and keep them busy. Future features may occur.
The gallery of the current website has been moved to a private server and some files have been left off, new media gets updated as soon as it has been produced and when the site is settled on a fully functional server the gallery will be redeemed.
[edit] Location’s
The starting place of the teams skating lives was out side a local medical centre and they still hone their skills there, their “home from home” as an old video was titled was Bones Bolton, the team went there on a regular basis until its closure in 06, this caused a major blow to the whole team’s spirit and things went a bit quiet for a while, now the team’s priority park is Central skate park in Manchester’s centre, occasionally a trip to “Projekts” park. A few pieces of media coverage show a few members a “R-Kade” skatepark in Redcar.
[edit] Products
A small clothing line was produced containing T-shirt’s, Hoodie’s and even underwear for both male’s and females. The logo was redesigned making the majority of the garments out dated and were no longer publicised along with the rest of the range.
“Decks” or the actual wood part of a skate board have also been designed, these are still available Here and although the range may be limited you can at least appreciate what is on offer.
[edit] The End
The memberes of MSCH decided to have a change and start a fresh, so the long process of names started. The team decided on the name "Network" and the change over has commenced, a new website will be made and maintained, the logo is due to change and MSCH will be left as the starting point of all the members journeys in the skateboarding world. The MSCH site will be left up until the Network site is fully operational.
Misspent childhood was closed on Wednesday the 16th of appril. and Network skate team was born.
