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  • 7 months, 3 weeks ago
    WTF's comment on:

    Keller changes trespassing ordinance to ease up on skateboarder penalties

    In San Antonio skateboarding is punishable under a Class B misdemeanor. That means you go straight to jail and it stays on your record. As a result, we lobbied the city for years and now have nine public (free) skateparks with more in the works. I really hope Keller will do the same. They had a skatepark on the plans years ago and nothing ever happened with it.

  • 2 years, 5 months ago
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    City of Dallas opens its first skate park at Lakeland Hills Park

    The El Paso Boys and Girls Club park was built in late 2004 or early 2005 according to my source.

    Also you can follow this thread on our SPS site. I have posted pictures of concrete parks which costs under 200k, and pictures of pros and beginners riding concrete skateparks. Plus more pics of modular parks in poor conditions.

    http://www.skatersforpublicskateparks... Skaters for Public Skateparks Forum :: View topic - New Modular Park in Dallas

  • 2 years, 5 months ago
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    New Lakeland Hills skate park grand opening on June 9

    I am here as a representative for Skaters for Public Skateparks. My name is Carter Dennis and I represent skating as a whole. I have been skating for 20 years nonstop. I skate street, I skate ramps, I skate bowls and pretty much anything in front of me. I have helped lobby for concrete street parks and helped in the design of the new San Marcos street park. Plus convinced numerous cities to look at skateparks as long term investments, not short term mistakes.

    I am also not a "hater". I have been involved with lobbying for skateparks for almost ten years. In that time, I have skated and researched hundreds of skateparks. Every time I skate a modular park I take pictures of the flaws and they all seem to be similar: warped kickplates, detached kickplates, rusting decks and platforms, sinking platforms, shifting panels, loose screws, delaminating surface, loose coping, damaged Skatelite, worn plastic surface and all around poor design.

    I think the modular park at Lakeland Hills is the step in the right direction towards campaigning against future prefab parks.

    It's great to see everybody speaking their minds and comical that the person bad mouthing SPS is potentially the modular rep. We are a non-profit group and do this for the love. We are supported by the IASC and the Tony Hawk Foundation.

  • 2 years, 5 months ago
    WTF's comment on:

    City of Dallas opens its first skate park at Lakeland Hills Park

    Mike,

    The New Braunfels park is about three years old. Ill find out about the El Paso Boys Club.

  • 2 years, 5 months ago
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    City of Dallas opens its first skate park at Lakeland Hills Park

    Hondo's concrete skate park is 5000 sqft and costs the city 43,000 dollars. The new concrete street addition to Round Rock is a 8000 sqft area built for under 150,000 dollars. The truth is an excellent concrete skatepark can be built under 100,000 dollars.

    However, companies like Skatewave will tell cities the opposite, and often refer to a concrete skatepark as an "in-ground" park. Which leads city officials to believe that all concrete skateparks are huge 12ft deep bowls. This is not the case. An excellent above ground concrete park can be built under a 100,000 dollars, and it is much lower maintenance than a modular park.

    In the article, Skatewave sales manager Greg Hawkins states, "The criticism, to be honest, made sense three or five years ago....there have been great advances in the materials used in these sorts of parks."

    This is absolutely untrue. The skateparks they built 4 or 5 years ago are still sitting in city parks. Many of them are in terrible conditions with sinking panels, protruding screws, rusting, warped kick plates and sinking platforms. Therefore, Skatewave's poor design and engineering is affecting skaters on a daily basis.

    Greg Hawkins also stated,"Skatewave's product has a 15-year warrantee. It is made of a super-durable, sound-dampened, corrosion- resistant. Low-maintenance, textured powdercoat steel surface with the perfect balance of slip and grip."

    The truth is Skatewave only warrants defects. However, they do not warrant wear and tear, and this is what affects most cities and skaters. When the ramps fall apart the skaters pay in injuries and the cities pay for the maintenance.

    Luckily, cities are starting to replace their failing modular parks with concrete skateparks. This summer New Braunfels will be demoing their failed Skatewave Park and building concrete skate plaza.

    Hopefully, Dallas will do some research on their next skate park project and no longer use a "playground vendor" that calls themselves a "skatepark builder".

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