We Explore Eddie The Eagle Abandoned Ski Slope In The UK!! 

It's such shame this place closed it was a casualty of the first lockdown I have so many happy memories of this place. I learned to ski there I had my first job there in 2003 - 2018. I was a Ski Tech and later on an instructor (free training if you worked there) I also had a few snowboard lessons there that were pretty fun (again free). The hut outside the perimeter fence at the side of the intermediate or teaching slope was actually part of the complex it is the old ski hire before it was moved up to the top where you got through the fence. The chair was closed in about 2015 or 2016 after they "fixed it" they created other issues that they couldn't fix and that put paid to the toboggan ride too (what you called the flume) The garages at the side of the chair (was used for storing snow bobs and other things like that except for the rings which were stored upside down on the side of the slope. It was a really cool place but went downhill (pun intended) when they put in the new surface. Go to any other slope like Wycombe Summit (also abandoned) and you'll see what most slopes use. The bit you came in on was the quarter pipe supposed to be used for southern free style club but someone hit it really hard once and landed in the carpark and broke his back so it was never really used. inside the centre you would have found the ski hire from the slope. Down stairs there was a kind of cafe that sold fast food and drinks like Slush Puppies, burgers and the like. It faced the rink which was used for ice discos pantomimes on ice and ice hockey games (the home ice of the Bracknell Bees.). The skate hire right across from the cafe and had an exit right out onto the ice. Upstairs from ski was the hospitality suites some WC’s and a bar which and an annex right by the ski slope and a view of the slope up stairs from there was a gym which I didn’t really use, called Apex Fitness and I think it was rented from Mr Nike. Upstairs from that was a storage room used to store ski buggies and things for the adaptive skiing. You could access it either from inside the centre or up those stairs you found on the ski slope I think it was originally going to be used as a ski bar or viewing gallery but it didn’t pan out. I could see the writing on the wall for quite a long time, but I was still sad to see it go when it did. The problem is it would only have taken few thousand pounds to get it back to its former glory or to bring it back even better than it was before.

You two are like a couple of naughty schoolboys!! 😃 I laughed so much when you were on the ski 🎿 slope as your laugh is incredibly infectious. Why shouldn't two grown men have fun - life is pretty hard right now. Go for it! Gill

The stuff in the garage were Children in Need props for fund raising and some appeared on South Today when the regional programme was filmed here in the 90’s.

This is Bracknell Ski Slope. The big slope was called the Master Slope and the small one next to it was called the Nursery Slope In 1999 I had a bunch of snowboarding lessons on the nursery slope and a couple on the main slope. On Monday Nights there used to be a snowboard jump/trick night

Thank You Guy's . I love your exploring episode . Best part for me was watching . Both of you sliding down the incline . In them little red sled's . Grown men can have fun also . I think this was the best day . For both of you . Got to have a little . Fun in are life's . Have a wonderful day .

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time!!! Thank you!

That made me feel like a kid again thank you!!💚💚

That’s so cool, the sledding bit looked so much fun. 😍😎👌🏻

It's great that someone has obviously brought those sleds there, and stashed them in the bushes, So people can have some fun.

Finally! A location I recognise! I lived in this town from 1989 until 2011. I’m just down the road in Reading now.

I miss this place so much! Spent pretty much every Saturday of my teen years ice skating in the ice rink. Learnt to ski there on the slope too. Good times! Can’t believe it’s closed for good now 😢

Eddie the eagle was filmed there, it was in full working order and in use until Feb, closed in march.

The two of you make a good team😀

Hi there. Didn't that look like fun. I had no idea about this place. Thank you for the fun and silliness. Cheers to you. Greetings from Toronto Canada Sept 2020. I'm from the UK too.

made me smile! thanks guys.

That was a giggle, thanks lads. 👍

Great explore. It really looks like the place has been abandoned for years rather than months though. All the best. 👍🏻👍🏻

The sliding down the slope looked like soo much fun, I would have done it too if I was there

Nice one chaps. Might have to check this out and have a go. Looks fun!

Hahaha had to have a laugh when you guys went down and burnt out the bottom of the sleds lol 😆 🤣 😂

Haha great video!! Had me laughing along with you

Great fun guys. Loved the video

VERY FUNNY MOMENTS, WELL DONE. GREAT EXPLORER AS USUALY, TAKE CARE GUYS. GREETINGS FROM PORTUGAL😉

That was such a cool place to have some fun 😁

It looked like that even before it closed 😂😂, they closed the flume run years before the slope as someone came off and ended up in the car park.

Made me smile 😂 keep up the good work

One day Tazer is going to get you back in a massive way for all the times you've scared him

That looked like so much fun !!!

I love the no parking sign on the fence

Theres only a couple of youtube channels that i watch every video... this is one of them!

What a load of fun.

A little history... Just down the road in Woodley there is another John Nike Ski Slope and also one in Ipswich or near that area. So three (that I know of) in total The building that you couldn't get into is the Ice Rink, home to the Bracknell Bees (The Bees). On the weekends you and your friends could hire some skates for a limited time and have a skate. Great for first dates as teenagers. You had a cafe too, DJ booth, go karting on ice, ice skating lessons. Besides from skiing there was meeting rooms and a restaurant too. In its hey day it was buzzing!

That looks so cool!!

Brilliant cheered me up that so funny guys

Fabulous fun! Hello 👋 from across the pond!

I recently had a look around the slope in Yeovil which was Yeovil alpine village, building had been demolished but the slope and everything is still there

Ahhh that’s so weird- I have pictures of me here as a child for me and my sisters birthday parties as we used to come here often... I didn’t even know it had closed until I recognised it halfway through 😂 I always thought it looked fancy when I used to go, but my parents said it’s looked run down for years haha

Those things go faster than I thought they could. It's a shame it's all closed, looks like it would have been fun in its time.

Brilliant video , there was a abandoned ski centre near Sheffield not sure if it's still ere it had Tanks,,trucks and diggers there , keep the vids coming 👍

I learnt to ski there in 1991. 30 years ago now, time flies.

Really enjoy your work.....🏋🏻‍♂️ have a good life 💪🏻💓🙏👍

Love the tune in the intro. Great video as always. My only mon car related chanel 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧. Big love stay cool 😎 Stick some hi vis on looks legit get away with murder. Just say your from the council lmfao 😂👌🏼

Ye make a great team yes should explore more as a team 👏👏yer both great ould craic ❤❤👏👏👏

Lol buzzing finding a sledge

Love what do from London, Ontario

That made me smile.

Colin, I hope you did get to see the compulsorily purchased houses, some abandoned for over 35 years, around the periphery? These are also quite a spectacle to explore... and they are within public land so can be viewed absolutely legally often alongside the public roadway. If not, then it is worthwhile going back.... However, the site's owners and the Police have radically intensified efforts to prevent trespass, theft or damage and are threatening prosecution to anyone now found on the site.

The covered bit on the slope is where you hired your skis, snowboards, tubogging equipment etc. The green slide on top of the main slope had been closed for years and years as it was a health and safety risk as a bunch of people hurt themselves quite badly

I live near by and used to go here all the time! The ski slope itself, the drag lift and the ice rink inside closed down in 2020, the toboggan run and chairlift has been closed for as long as I can remember (I’m 19 years old), the steep bit under the toboggan run was a freestyle slope which as far as I’m aware, also closed a while before the main slope! Info from my parents: When the slope opened back in 1985, there was a wooden cabin bar type thing half way up the slope, which is still there but has not been used in many many years, but it used to be a very social lively place! It so so sad to see what has happened to such an important part of the community 😢

You lil' devil! Poor Nathan... Not much to see on this explore but the fun you two had was well worth it!

Big Kids, but looked like fun.

I'm sure this is where part of Eddie the eagle film was filmed

That stuff does hurt to fall on! Remember going to one at school an fell loads of times put me off for life 😂

they were popular with tour operators offering taster sessions if you booked a skiing holiday. most of those companies dont exist anymore and the dry slope experience just doesnt cut it with winter sport enthusiasts these days!

Looks like the one nightscape had some fun on about a month or so ago, pretty funny stuff 🙂

Great video mate . Have you been too Sheffield ski village yet

Electric chair is a funfair novelty, you hold a couple of sticks that vibrate. Wherever that slope is, it’s in better condition that the John Nike ski centre in Chatham.

Love the music u use I. Your video s

thanks greetings from norfolk

Nice video as always 👍 have you ever been done for trespassing on any of your explores? Just curious as to what happens if those dalek things take your picture, what actually happens?

Come on chaps fess up, how many goes up and down that hill did you really have!

That’s looks like the one I’m Bracknell 🤔 drove past last week

22:34 lol 😂

Lived up the road from that John Nike ski slope for 29 years. Literally 5mins walk lol. Went ice skating there and for other events. Kinda regret never trying out snowboarding on the slopes. Sad it's closing, but to be honest it hasn't changed since the late 80s/early 90s and needed a lot of refurbishment and updating done. Probably another reason why they decided to shut.

Looks like it would be propper fun of a scootbord

Such a shame that the company did not invest in this place, what makes it worse is that the group that owned and ran it also manufacture the artificial surface that is used on dry ski slopes as well as the mist systems, search up SkiTech Systems, they are part of the Nike Group of Companies. If I had the money I would buy this place and open it back up, with a little love and attention I think it would a profitable business.

yooo i used to go to the ski slope and those sheds every day just to chill abt with my friends but now its getting demolished 😭 it got shut down in the first lockdown due to loss in money. there used to be so many abandoned buildings around there but they all got knocked down a while ago- wish u could have saw them lmaooo, i live so close to there but i miss going there 😢

When will you be doing the Trafford Center. Won’t be to long

We was there yesterday sledging been shut for a while now think they refurbing it

That thing in the garage looked like a bob sleigh.

Looks like that artificial turf area was for snowboarding maybe?

What's the intro music he uses 🤔👍🏻 cuz I love it

When you say dry ski slope you mean cuz . It's summertime or is that how it actually is a dry snow slope. Never heard of anything like that in the states

The leisure complex closed in March due to the coronavirus lockdown and has struggled ever since, they finished the last of the redundancies in June. Such a shame!

I do figure skating at that ice rink but currently at planet ice in Basingstoke due to the closure of it, it closed due to lockdown and went bust due to not being open but it was recently bought and they’re refurbishing it not sure what’s happening with the ski slope but it was used until it closed. Hopefully I’ll be back skating there when it opens I will update up on the ski slope when it’s open again.

HAHA That looked well kool ,, wouldn't of been mind if youd of came off ouch !!!!

I was holding my breath ,afraid you were going to fall.I would say it has been abandoned for several years considering the decay.Maybe some newer repairs in places.Im surprised kids aren't taking skateboards there. Great find take care.👍🇺🇸💟💗

The John Nike leisure Center made famous by Ali G. Abandoned is a bit misleading as it only closed down recently. The lunge run had stopped years ago, but the Slope was still doing lessons before COVID.

Looking at the footage once more, it is evident the site was starved of investment, the slopes and buildings are really showing their age but had been a relatively steady income stream until COVID-19 shut the site. Sadly I fear this is another case of, 'I wanted to bin it off and COVID-19 gave me the opportunity and justification', by the estate of the deceased former owner.

Maybe it was used for practising for the winter Olympics.

There is one in Sheffield, it’s used as a dirtbike track.

I think (if it’s the one I think), this was closed years ago, but recently it was announced it will never reopen.

Your in my neck of the woods 👍

It's hard to believe the place closed earlier that year. Looking at parts of it, you'd think it was abandoned decades ago. I suppose, like many places like this, it was closed, bit by bit, in an attempted to cut back on running costs, until the last section finally closed for good. Yet another of Britain's, probably once lucrative, businesses goes down the pan!

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I think this is the most fun you’ve ever had on an explore guys 😃🍻👍🏻

In the last comment I put about the dry ski slope now I understand it's like a man-made ski slope I believe so if it was up and running that would actually have snow on it or if it was winner time. I don't know if you have them over there in Europe or great Britain we have them in the states we have indoor ski slope I think I've only seen one in Jersey and I know we have indoor skydiving. Another thing I can gather from seeing it as you wear like a skydiving suit and it's a gigantic fan. littery blows up from the floor and shoots you up to the ceiling. Well thank you for the great video be safe

939 famous last words lol

I meant to say that this venue has been on this site since 1985, I believe that was when the site was being built.

I LIVE ON THE ROAD WHERE THE SLOPE IS!!!

If I didn't know where this is, I wouldn't have believed that it closed temporarily in March and only closed for good in July. It looks like it's been closed for years. I wonder if this has been slated for closure for a while and Covid was a good excuse. Mind you, to its credit, it was getting some excellent and good reviews (apart from the food) on Trip Advisor right until the end. I'm glad to hear the Bees have found a new hive.

It's one of the very few with an actual chairlift. It should reopen when covid restrictions finally end. If it closes down, it's a colossal waste. It's one of the few slopes with a chairlift in the UK. And chairlifts are so much better because they are faster. Chairlift > T-bar > Majic Carpet > Tow rope.

Wtf I used to go there as a kid this is mad

Is this place close to Alsager

Where is this place?

Wonder where you’d been

This is really what 5 months can do?

This place has been shut down for years and years everybody been their Sheffield city

Is this the one in swad Burton on Trent ?

How’d you get in