Please Ohio can we hire some skatepark construction professionals? New Concord gets funds for skatepark.
Kent gets 15k for skatepark
Bellville Ohio Amvets park gets $ for skatepark.
Then there's this idiot who thought it would be cool to drive his truck onto the skatepark and take pictures of it.
Not Ohio. But I dig it! .. Sun Prairie Wisconsin Skatepark design. poached from sunprairieskatepark.com
As the Marietta times article describes it, a "cradle is a half sphere". That's pretty accurate I suppose. They forgot to mention that skaters go fast and get upside down! You can do it if you're GNAR like
Dale Busta in the cradle at Skatopia
! The article goes on to say that the skatepark should be open to thrash in October!!! Go get some!
9.16.09 - Dreamland Skateparks behind the scenes!
Oh and here's an update on the marietta skatepark. click wheel for map -->
9.15.09 - Z town
Here's some good news! Zanesville skatepark is recieving 66k for improvements! Could someone whisper grindline, artisian, or dreamland into councils ear.. and just maybe...
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Grants
Summit City of Green Develop a skate park at Green Skate Park $13,327
Stark City of Louisville Develop a skate park at Wilson Skate Park $24,958
Logan Bellefontaine Joint Recreational District Develop skate park at Blue Jacket Park $49,141
Clermont Village of Bethel Develop skate park at Burke Park $18,750
9.14.09: Builders day was the 9th. Oops
Skatopia builders day was supposed to be Saturday the 12th. Turns out they poured concrete on Wednesday the 9th. Little miscommunication but oh well. Anyway skate and annoy has a link with some pictures from what they added onto the Lula Bowl. The new pockets are really nice and they open the bowl up so much more. Not that there wasn't a million lines already.. now there's even more! I shot some video from this past weekend. I will cut some up and share so stay tuned...
I also heard someone spoke to mayor jackson about getting grindline in Cleveland. like those little birds on the powerlines. chirp..
the erie pa grindline skatepark is done. erieskatepark on Flickr has some pictures for you to scope.
9.10.09
Tear down that 40 thousand dollar fence and throw it in the lake along with the ramps! IT'S GARBAGE! It's skatewave for cryin out loud. It's made by a company that manufactures playground equipment. What am I talking about? I'm talking about this article I found. Jackson wants to move the park and build a restaraunt. Hopefully they just throw that piece of trash they call a skatepark in to Lake Erie and call it a day. I'm pretty sure no skateboarder will miss it. Argh! I'm so pissed for many other reasons.
So it was my grandpa's 89th birthday! I mailed him a postcard and a picture of myself thrashing the wheeling park on the back of the picture I told him that this is what Coshocton Ohio needs!
Then I got an email from my mom saying...
Grandpa came over this evening and said he'd received your pic from West Virginia.
He took it over to the Mayor today but he wasn't in. He gave it to the next man in
charge, Jerry Stenner who said the Mayor mentioned that he'd talked to you about
this. So anyway Grandpa made a pitch for you about the skate park. I don't know
how this town will support putting money into it when there is so little money
around to do anything else that needs done but maybe theres grant money that
they're considering for it. Who knows. Just wanted you to know Grandpa was
taking care of things. Mom
Stumbled upon this Xtreme Park in Singapore then read the captions that it was built by convic. Punched in the site and was blown away!. These aussies do some nice looking skateparks! go check it for yourself it's pretty sweet!
Then I stumbled on this article about Massilion Ohio ("Football is a priority") and there skater haters