Where is this curb please and can we all arrange a meet up at it. Possibly with bbqs?
don’t you see the palm in the background? clearly its the med somewhere. we’re gonna have to all book a plane flight
i love going to skatepark manufacturer’s websites and seeing other parks they’ve built
edit - @BDF they built godmanchester!
Div works for Maverick, they’re sick. Canvas are good too even though I think Beanhead works for them.
canvas is alright. that park in Acton West London is a fantastic park but they put fucking flower beds in the middle of it -
i fucked up a trick and my leading foot slipped into the flower bed and i mega rolled my ankle. was not stoked. such an unnecessary thing to put there
edit - the two parks they built in Cambridge are trash too but then they had very limited space so not necessarily on them
Ah…haha! I don’t have much experience I always just think of Campus Pool which I really like.
Canvas built the park in Leamington which I think is a right laugh, but a certain subset of locals in Leam, Stratford and Cov aren’t keen on it. Everything’s quite compact and whippy, which I think is super fun, but it’s not to everyone’s taste.
I know we had some problems with tree roots to contend with which squeezed the available space a bit. There are some weird design decisions with the layout but compared to the pre-fab rubbish I grew up skating in Coventry it’s great fun, and I’m still finding new ways to skate it 5 years after it was built.
Speaking of which I tried to go skate it at lunch but got rained out by a torrential downpour after it had been dry all morning
man i can’t believe those prefab parks are still everywhere. they were terrible to begin with and have not aged well at all. some of them are proper death traps now. i will admit though, the black metal ones that have the long mellow hubba’s are fun as fuck
The company who built my local growing up like to go on about how their parks are guaranteed to last for 50 years by a study from Warwick University, but I’ve long thought that was bullshit. My old childhood local didn’t even last 10 years before the pre-fab panels started sinking into the ground and the poured concrete on the floor became as rough as a cheese grater. 20 years on and the place is just crumbling apart.
Lets not forget that Maverick was born from GBH!
Just kidding, I think they have earned the right to sever that link forever.
Really nice to see more imaginative ideas like the one with the amazing kerb, I think if I got into designing parks for real i’d have really enjoyed going in some creative areas.
Was it built by bencrete?
I didn’t want to name and shame… but yeah
I remember when I heard that connection I was sceptical of them. They quickly proved there was no need to doubt them. I’ve never had a bad time at a Maverick park.
Any Bristol people on here and up for a skate I’m heading to centre spot with these later around 6/6.30
Thought it was sounds like my local growing up. Concrete ramps dropped into place, the ground rough as sand paper. That made a euro gap that sunk into the floor or something and had to get knocked down.
Used to skate with a mate down there who was living in Cov for uni - said he enjoyed skating our local because it reminded him of home… the layout was exactly the same, pulled out of a catalogue
Hi Ade! It’s mofuggs. Nice to be seeing you here
That’s amazing
When I was in Liverpool a couple of weeks back a couple of lads brought a portable ledge that looked like it slotted together.
No way!!! Stoked to see you on here!