Skateboard Simulator Hire

The skateboard simulator - sometimes called a mechanical skateboard, a skate board simulator or an inflatable skateboard ride - is a powered skateboard deck mounted in the middle of an inflatable landing bed. The rider stands on the board and tries to keep their balance while our operator works the tilt and roll from a separate control box, much the way a half-pipe would move under a skater. When someone comes off, and most people do, they land on the padded inflatable bed around them rather than the floor.

The bed is done out in skate-park graffiti: a grey base with red padded sides covered in spray-can lettering - "SLAM", "FLIP", "GRAB", "SKATE", "SLIDE" - plus skulls, stars and a cartoon skater. One rider goes at a time, and because the operator sets the difficulty we can keep it slow for younger riders and first-timers and turn it up for anyone in the queue who reckons they can stay on. It draws a crowd of watchers as much as a queue of riders, which is why it tends to work well at fun days and fêtes as well as at parties.

Specs

• Powered skateboard deck on a tilting, rolling base
• Inflatable cushioned landing bed around the board
• Skate-park graffiti theming on the bed walls
• 15ft x 15ft footprint
• One rider at a time
• Operator-controlled difficulty, from a gentle ride for first-timers up to harder settings
• Suitable for children and adults
• Runs indoors in a hall or outdoors on grass; if you're indoors, let us know the ceiling height and we'll check it fits

Where it suits

• Birthday parties and private celebrations
• Corporate fun days, team-building and office parties
• School, college and university events
• Youth groups, summer fairs and village fêtes
• Festivals and community events

How we hire it out

We own all our kit, so the person setting it up and running it on the day is one of our own staff, not a sub-contractor. Everyone on the road has passed the RPII operator and supervisor exams, is first-aid trained and is enhanced-DBS registered, which matters if you're booking around children, a school or a faith community. The inflatable bed is PIPA-tagged and inspected annually by our in-house RPII inspector, and the control box and electrics are PAT-tested annually. If we're setting up outside we run the anemometer and the standard 24mph wind-speed cutoff, the same as we do with any inflatable.

Joanne and David have run Monster Event Hire from our unit in Havant since 2002, covering Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and into London. The policy carries £10 million public liability with additional licensed-premises cover for pubs, clubs and bars, and the certificate and risk assessment are on request.

If you want to compare, the surf simulator is the same ride with a surfboard on top and the snowboard simulator is the winter version. The rodeo bull is the original stay-on-or-come-off ride, and there's the rest of our simulator hire range if you want a look. For an idea of where we travel, have a look at our Hampshire, Havant, Portsmouth, Surrey, West Sussex and London area pages, or contact us to tell us about your event.