Skatepark

A skatepark is a recreational area built for skateboarders, rollerbladers, scooters and BMX riders consisting of ramps and obstacles of various designs which test the rider's skill and help them develop their technique.

About Skatepark

Skate parks can be either privately or publicly owned. Private parks usually charge a fee and require the use of helmets and pads to help bring down the costs of insurance. Public parks are usually outside and owned by individual cities and municipalities to help bring down the costs skaters and BMXers can cause to buildings and sidewalks.

Skate parks come in three basic formats, the bowl park, the street park and the flow park. Bowl parks are designed to emulate skating in pools. Skaters in bowl parks are supposed to be able to move around the park without taking their feet off the board to push. The curved walls allow skaters to smoothly make turns as well as the back and forth skating that takes place on traditional half pipes.

Street parks are exactly what the sound like. They are designed to improve upon and be a safer alternative to skating on the streets and in public plazas. Street parks usually have things that look like stuff you'd find on the streets like stair sets, rails, planters and benches. They also have a few unnatural obstacles like quarter pipes, fun boxes and pyramids. Skaters do have to push at street parks, but that is part of skating.

Flow parks combine the best elements of bowl parks and street parks. In a well designed flow park, skaters can pump around the parks bowls and quarter pipes and use that speed to hit street obstacles without taking their feet off the board to push.

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