New Member - Skatepark Designer
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I cant stop coming back to this and thinking how much fun that must be!
Mate BTW what is the material you use for the surface, looks like concrete but that could be deceiving given the temporary nature of the installation?
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Richard, about the random pieces by the fence -- whenever I put something together I usually find random pieces still in the box when I'm done... I just throw 'em out. Maybe it's the same thing here?
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Could be mate! Yeah I get the same when I pull something apart and put it back together. Spare bits!
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Those extra pieces on the deck are actually rotating banner space for the event sponsors. They scroll through to get as much air time for each sponsor on TV as possible.
Believe it or not, about 70% of what you see is concrete (later recycled) poured in place and the rest is made up of steel frame structures and wood sheeting covered in a 1/4" thick layer of Skatelite...designed for skatepark use. We do dress up the parks with a bit of paint.
Here are a couple of pics I did of the Street Course that same year.
Glad to see you are stoked.
Cheers!
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dude, could you send me some love? cos im gonna be designing a skatepark for my thesis. i want to know some details before starting.
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Mate you could have blown me down that this is mostly cast concrete. My God!
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So a competitor to Jeff Hammond
[flash=560,315:ufqkvmrm]http://www.youtube.com/v/4Jgj30l29DE[/flash:ufqkvmrm]
[flash=560,315:ufqkvmrm]http://www.youtube.com/v/k4xqXl57888[/flash:ufqkvmrm] -
Fantastic stuff Dug!!!
At some point I might have to pick your brains about building a mini concrete bowl in my back yard.
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@z1ck said:
dude, could you send me some love? cos im gonna be designing a skatepark for my thesis. i want to know some details before starting.
Sure, dude.
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@unknownuser said:
So a competitor to Jeff Hammond
[flash=560,315:20zgv1yi]http://www.youtube.com/v/4Jgj30l29DE[/flash:20zgv1yi]
[flash=560,315:20zgv1yi]http://www.youtube.com/v/k4xqXl57888[/flash:20zgv1yi]Nah. I don't feel like anyone is a competitor in this field. I am just stoked to see so many rad spots being built all over the world. There are some really creative and talented designers out there.
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@hieru said:
Fantastic stuff Dug!!!
At some point I might have to pick your brains about building a mini concrete bowl in my back yard.
Thanks. What are you thinking about putting in?
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At the moment I've got a timber 2ft micro ramp and it's taking up patio space and is a pain to maintain maintain in the UK climate.
After doing a lot of remodelling and landscaping on my house the last thing left to do is the back garden. So I was thinking of creating a patio area in the middle of the lawn with a sunken concrete kidney bowl that could be covered with decking when not in use.
Something like this (starts around 1:10):
http://video.mpora.com/watch/oz2OzM4us/
Either that or basic sunken min-ramp with just a transition at two ends.
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@hieru said:
Fantastic stuff Dug!!!
At some point I might have to pick your brains about building a mini concrete bowl in my back yard.
Cool. What did you have in mind?
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@hieru said:
At the moment I've got a timber 2ft micro ramp and it's taking up patio space and is a pain to maintain maintain in the UK climate.
After doing a lot of remodelling and landscaping on my house the last thing left to do is the back garden. So I was thinking of creating a patio area in the middle of the lawn with a sunken concrete kidney bowl that could be covered with decking when not in use.
Something like this (starts around 1:10):
http://video.mpora.com/watch/oz2OzM4us/
Either that or basic sunken min-ramp with just a transition at two ends.
That bowl looks pretty sick. I always love those tight tranny pockets.
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@unknownuser said:
So a competitor to Jeff Hammond
[flash=560,315:tk6lqupx]http://www.youtube.com/v/4Jgj30l29DE[/flash:tk6lqupx]
[flash=560,315:tk6lqupx]http://www.youtube.com/v/k4xqXl57888[/flash:tk6lqupx]nah. I am just stoked to see so many parks and spots being built all over the world.
Many talented designers and builders out there. -
@z1ck said:
dude, could you send me some love? cos im gonna be designing a skatepark for my thesis. i want to know some details before starting.
What would you like to know?
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@dugketterman said:
That bowl looks pretty sick.
Like the guy says 'everyone should have one'. I was also thinking of creating seating and planters with transitions - I'll look at modelling it up later today.
The problem is that I don't know how to go about construction. Some people seem to think you should just dig a hole and build up thin layers of concrete - ghetto style. Others suggest marine ply spines and rebar?
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Just think noise mate! The worst could happen that you get it built and complaints stop it's use!
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I'm not sure about that. I've always thought that the resonant clack, clack, clack of a wood ramp is probably more annoying if not louder than concrete.
Luckily I live in a detached house and I havn't had any complaints about either the noise of my ramp or the music I usually play when skating.
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@dugketterman said:
@unknownuser said:
So a competitor to Jeff Hammond
Nah. I don't feel like anyone is a competitor in this field. I am just stoked to see so many rad spots being built all over the world. There are some really creative and talented designers out there.
well, aside from the thing about you guys patenting a ramp that i designed and built, then yeah no competition in this field..
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