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Creation skate park heads up
Shings:
AFPMSL
Want to earn some money....
MAKE THE fookING KIDS/PUNTERS PAY!!!!!!!
Put the prices up- when I went to Corby last it cost me 50p more than when I went previously and half the park was closed.
I have watched countless kids just walk in and out and no one ever checks them... for example and I know they didn't have bikes but.... Before the start of Saturday nights session.. 6 kids just walked in off the street and sat down in the park to watch!
A few weeks ago at 10.00am as they opened and Karl, Ian and I que'd to pay about 3 "locals" just walked in... and not any of the regular crowd either....
So no wonder it makes no money.... among all the other bits and bobs that have been mentioned.
J
Voodoocars:
What does 'AFPMSL' mean?
Shings:
absolutly fookin pissing myself laughing
TwoBobRob:
--- Quote from: pickle on May 13, 2008, 03:45 PM ---11k is what it cost them! but i agree it is a tad on the tight side to be of any use.
--- End quote ---
11k???????? Jesus......... they got turned over.
All skateparks have a dilemma. They need to cater for pros, wobblers, very young kids and wannabes.. Virtually every skatepark in this country simply isn't big enough to cater for everyone. And if you could find a building big enough, you could never afford to run it.
If you build flow into a park, you rule out most wobblers and young kids. You also introduce collision lines a lot of the time. Keep the park linear and segregated and you alienate the pros and the wannabes.
It's a tricky one. Creation is big enough to mix and match though, so it could be turned around.
BUT
it would need some money thrown at it, and that in itself is more than likely a problem.
Philbert:
personally.....and this is just my opinion!
i think the guys there are all cool. and the previous owners were cool too!
that skatepark has got progressively worse ever since it opened. the biggest nail in the coffin for the skatepark was way back when they put the climbing wall in. i know why they put it in to bring revinue to the building. however. they took out the one thing that made it a good park to ride on a bike. the rythmn section! a huge spine, a huge volcano, a 17ft vert wall then on return the 'widowmaker' jumpbox and a smaller jump box then a 7ft hip so it could be done again. the amount of riders that used to sit on the deck of the bowl for that was unreal. when they built the climboing wall so many riders have disappeared. the replacement is the pathetic excuse of a jump box and step up box they have now that confines you to one small area of the park and doesn't flow with anything!
also when the wall was built a huge hip was taken out that formed part of a huge street course that had two driveways, one of which got smaller as time went on, and a step up rail thing for skaters. a subbox and quarter and flatbank that backed on to the mini ramp in its old position and formed lots of variety for tech and transfer lines.
as the park gets slowly smaller its layout gets worse. the space isn't used wisely. to ad insult to injury they take out the bowl 'because no-one used it anymore' ffs if they'd have fixed it, it would b widely used! it felt like a railway track in the end! now we have a spine street setup that was 'designed with inliners in mind'. wtf! why not build a spine that all disciplines can ride, its too tight realistically for a bike and every skater i know hates the damn thing!
the whole layout is just little pockets of different things to ride with transfer/flow lines almost non existant!
for the skatepark to have any kind of future at all it needs some major revamp, and soon too! we're now coming into the lowest revinue season as good weather is upon us.
a beginner section may bring in some schools. could be an option! but at the end of the day, and it always has been the key to a successfull skatepark. you've got to keep the local skaters and bmxers coming through the door! they are the bread and butter for a skatepark and what gives a park a large amount of its identity. skaters now have next to fook all to use at the park now. a few street driveway bits down the side, the mini and vert, and most of the vert skaters now go over to corby! personally i don't think the skatepark has too much life left in it!
my view as to what they should do: (for what its worth)
build a good bowl! every discipline can use a bowl. and its a major pulling point for a skatepark.
build a rythmn section for riders, possibly down the side of the climbing wall.
build a decent street course with a good variety of quarters, ramps, driveways, subboxes, rails etc. different sizes to cater for all
can't see it happening though!
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