6-8ft that’s fucking massive. Like
Honestly how many people are skating that compared to a good block?
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It’s just what you’re used to. I grew up skating big ramps so 6-8ft feels mellow to me. But I struggle to do anything even half decent on a block or ledge.
I think skateparks would be fucking amazing if they just gave you a flat price of concrete with nothing on it and let you build whatever you want on it.
As long as it’s not round the back of the leisure centre on your estate or whatever so you can get away from all the Sur-ron riding balaclava pricks and the parents and babysitters with ten kids on pink plastic bikes and can have your own space to skate with friends.
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yes, same spot
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Interesting. We’re doing the same thing at my indoor right now. Luckily I’ve got full control over how we go about designing it so so far it’s just me and a mate working on it. We’re going to wait till we’re mostly happy with it ourselves before getting input from others. I can only see opening up to a wider audience just causing headaches as you’re experiencing
Yeah it can be quite challenging and very frustrating.
I probably made it sound worse than it is because I did manage to get a whole part of the park 90% how I wanted it, and guess what? That’s the bit everybody skates now. I hardly ever see anyone skating the other part of the street course with bigger obstacles the kids (and older farts in the committee that also never really go or went anywhere else) designed. 
The worst thing about the whole situation is that most of those kids don’t even skate that much, they’re just happy to be part of the committee so they have the keys of the park and can go drink and smoke weed there as they certainly can’t do that at home living with their parents.
We are working on the transition section now, we don’t have a miniramp and they want a fucking massive bowl with spines and hips and shit. Damn.
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Just came across this post again and was curious how it ended @franc
Well, the park is like three different zones which are pretty different:
- The first zone has the bigger street obstacles, I don’t like them and I’ve never even skated there.
- The second zone has the vert ramp (which we already had), a new silly funbox for scooterers and a new miniramp that’s too big in my opinion, I sometimes skate it but I think it would be much better (meaning more people would skate it) if it was smaller.
- The third zone is the shit, I fought hard, designed most of it and am pretty happy with it, it’s not perfect but I could skate it for the rest of my life and not get bored.
You can see pictures of the zone with transitions here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOVdCAhDQdn/?hl=en&img_index=1
I’ll take pics of the other stuff and will post them on here if you want.
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Watching the Alexis Sablone Epicly Latered and she designed a low impact park and it looks perfect and for a low budget too. Depressing how councils seem to think they need olympic/SLS style obstacles.
Yeah that plus the fact that most of the time councils want an association behind a project and said association is full of teens that wish they were hesh, ask for stairs and big rails and silly shit and by the time the park is built they’ve all quit.
I’m going to sound like a twat but I think I’d be decent at designing skateparks. Would love doing that but it’s probably not as fun as it seems when I’m typing this on my couch.
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Designing the park you want looks fun, it’s designing the park other people (I.e. kids) want that doesn’t.
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Mount Hawke have truly outdone themselves with their latest refit
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQwx-ZwDObS/?igsh=MXNlNngxcXExdHBtMg==
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I thought the opposite. This is an All Terrain Trev production and he’s obviously the goat of wood skateparks….but it looks like a training facility rather than a fun park. The wall between street sections with one part just being a straight up and down rail run killed it for me.
But I would say that cos I like curbs 
Yeah i get what you’re saying.
Depressingly, my first thought was that I would have loved to have skated this 10 years ago.
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Old mate of mine looks to have worked on it looking at his instagram updates.
To be honest MH was pretty decent as it was from a quick visit in August. I was amazed that a park in such great condition had had another big massive blob of funding and was redoing the street section.
It all looks too big for my weak old legs, but I’ll defo visit next August.
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Looks quite X Games. 
Finally remembered to take pictures of that part of the park I’m really happy with, the one I helped design most of.
The idea behind this was to offer an area that would be accessible to beginners and fun for experimented skaters, with really basic obstacles, the stuff you need in every park in my opinion, an open space where you can cruise around and do long lines if you’re on your own and where you can also have a good sesh if you’re with 5 or 10 mates.
Here’s a few pictures I took tonight.
The two grind boxes on the left and the manny pad are movable, you can put them wherever you want if you want to try a special line or even do combos like grinds to manuals etc. The long rail and the long grind box are fixed into the floor.
View from the other side of the same zone.
Same shit, different angles.
I filmed a clip on every obstacle to give you an idea of how things are.
I can provide dimensions for all those obstacles if it can help anyone.
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Getting really good feedback on this by the way, from my friends but also from kids and their parents, from older farts and from really good skaters. It’s definitely the part of the park that’s skated the most. Was there with lots of people last Tuesday, some guys were playing SKATE in the whole zone while some others were cruising around or working on tricks and things were going smoothly. I’m stoked.
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I just wish we had a steeper bank but we had to connect the two banks you see here with a quarter pipe and with the zone that has the bigger ramps so you can skate from this zone to the other one.
This looks absoutely brilliant
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