Skateboarding

Skateboarding is prooving quite a task down here at the moment. This seems to be combintation of a few things. Street skating is pretty sketchy, primarily because all those places that are considered the skate spots on the uk, carparks, industrial estates, shopping centers are all security lock down zones with either armed guards or razor wire fences... Then there's the skateparks, or complete lack of them, to be more precise - there's lot's of talk on the web about parks, but then no real detail as to where they are. Ask the locals and they say the parks are shut down. It's been quite a bit of investagtive work to try and eek out places and the more I look the more glimmers of detail emerge about the skate scene, but it's a pretty low level scene.

So here's a couple of mini's i sniffed out.

Number 1.
5 foot with a 6 foot tombstone with the craziest welded steel surface, complete with speed bump across the flat bottom. This place was Somerset West and had to be the windiest dustiest place i've ever been. Not a great ramp.



Number 2
6/7 foot wooded ramp, 3 tracks wide.
I think the skaters in the audince spot the problem with this ramp - yep 3 tracks, whats that about? Fun to ride though, even though there was a half inch gap between the coping and 1 foot wide deck.. This rampo was in Hermanus






I'll be posting Google Earth links to all these spots soon. - Hmmm note to self: Google Earth / Skate Sports Mash-Up.... Gotta look into this.