Brunswick Skatepark 2013

Every now and then there are great people to deal with that have an interest in skateboarders needs. Alli at Moreland has been an absolute champion. She was the driving force for Fawkner, sorted approval for the tiles at Coburg and gained approval for Fawkner stage 2. Fawkner stage 2 didn't go so well as she was on leave and the people looking after it were, to be blunt, fairly useless in my opinion.

She is back and sent me an email.....

Hi Josh, I hope this finds you well.

Great news – Council is working towards a skate park for Brunswick in 2013/14 financial year.

Before we start any designs - I am putting together an application for additional funding from SRV.

It would be great to have a letter of support from some local skaters / riders to attach to the grant application.

Could I trouble you to put together a short letter (email is fine), outlining your support and why there is a real need for a skate park in Brunswick.

Much appreciated & catch up with you soon

So if anyone would like to be involved please email/facebook me. We need to have a reasoned, clear and united proposal for when design consultation is near.

My thoughts are always to have something very different to anything already built, no duplication of existing facilities already in Melbourne. Brunswick is a prime location and the budget will be decent.

So what don't we have and what will have something for everyone? My two cents is a proper plaza, with flow (something like Stoner) and a Oregon inspired snake run (like Nimbin) surrounding it like orcas island snake run surrounds the inner park. Hey this is just my opinion.

If any locals would like to send me a letter of support for the proposed park I will fwd it to Alli. We don't need to flood them with emails.

Please use this thread to submit ideas and keep each other in the loop. Pictures are great. Please keep this constructive, if you say you don't like an idea have an alternative to offer.

I promise I will keep you in the loop. This is a great opportunity, let's fully utilise this.

PS I put this here as no one looks in the parks section!

As someone who will be moving to brunswick early next year I approve of this message.

Comic book guy Brunswick is a great area. Killer bars/food/crew.

OHHH MYYYY GAWDDDD!
this makes me jizz!
ok ok ok...
too many ideas!
WORLDS LONGEST MINI RAMP??

quarter pipe hubbas

Melbourne doesn't have a decent kidney bowl except franga, which has the unfortunate flaw of being where it is...

So that might be a good starting point for a bowl if you wanna check off some transition and allow the rest of the park to concentrate on other more interesting street and street orientated bank/transition features.

Something like Belco park, but better... that would be amazing

Yes some of the features of Belco are rad. Nav all input is great but there is a kidney in Coburg, next suburb to Brunswick.

To consisely collaborate ideas pictures are great. Street spots, park obstacles and sculptures ect.

Links to trawl

http://www.premiumskatedesigns.co.nz/design-process

http://www.newlineskateparks.com/Projects/

Have a look through. Some of the newline parks are so rad. I'm going to push for a wider tender process as opposed to just going through Convic. They have constructed some great parks but I am of the opinion they have become very complacent. Australia is falling behind.

Fish bowl replica, more parks needs legit pools.
For reference:
http://www.skateboard.com.au/bandits/read.cfm?forum=10&thread=86015

YES

snakerun is the single most important thing here. that is all

build it in carnegie

Comic book guy that pool looks epic, however there is a pool replica in Coburg, the next suburb.

Lets work of a few assumptions. Melbourne is best served by not replicating existsing terrain. Lets also work from another assumption that skaters travel to skate, so we need to consider terrain throughout the greater Melbourne area. Transition wise we have a load of spines, loads of tacos, couple of cradles and loads of 5-7 bowls.

What transition don't we have in Melbourne?
-Full pipe
-Clover bowl (could be modernised rad)
-Keyhole (Well there is Corio....)
-Snake run

An Oregon inspired style snake run surrounding a diverse plaza would be epic. Think Nimbin snake run surrounding Stoner Plaza perhaps?

Melbourne has tranny well covered in terms of bowls. There is an unfulfilled demand for a properly rad plaza. I am not so busy tomorrow I will start posting some images. If people want to start posting plaza pics or street spot pics that would be great.

make a bank with a chain at the top so you can flyout over it or tom penny into it.. or kanteen russel it if thats your thing

or JT Aultz it

jt is super under rated

i would like to suggest that we try and have it made without the ridiculously polished concrete (fawkner, taylors hill etc).

sure its nice and smooth, but i really find that it is never consistent when you are doing grinds/slides. tail slides seem to always stick even if you wax the ledge, and it seems that you could even get chalkies off a grain of sand.

the more i think about it the angrier i get.

BRING BACK NORMAL CONCRETE!!!!!!

also, i think we need some less conventional street obstacles.
we need to think about what is actually fun about skateboarding, i would suggest that mucking around doing slappys and and boardslides on parking blocks is a lot funner that kickflipping some 9 stair. obviously some people would disagree, and im not trying to say that the skatepark should be made up of parking blocks. but i think that the more unusual obstacles are often the most fun.

the stuff in this clip looks like it would be pretty fun.

i realise internet rants are not the best way to get things to happen, so let me know if you ever need more people onboard with this Josh.

clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH9mZYyS2QM&feature=player_embedded#!

I remember a bunch of parks that people used to complain about the slipperyness to begin with.. eg riverside and newport and new belco. 6-12 months on they are ok. My concern is starting off without the slickness would mean parks would be super haggard 90s style crete in no time. I dunno, bring in the experts.. flaz?

whatever it has in it, make sure it has 1 decent flat bar, one decent ledge, one decent QP and a hip/funbox.

any other out there weird obstacles are great, but get old for locals pretty quick, and they are the ones who will skate the park the most.

if you get the essentials right the park can't suck all that much.

fair enough chip.


i guess your right Drew, if they made parks that were already worn in. they would be haggard in 10 years.

but i still think that you can make a smooth parks that aren't sticky to grind.

Heidelburg west and Stratford skateparks seem like good examples.

I like hermans idea of putting in some weird stuff, its nice to see parks with something unique apart of it, it makes them easier to recognise, not to mention it makes it more fun.. Like cunce will come from all over to skate something that is retarded looking, cause they wont be able to skate it anywhere else.

Unique is great, unique keeps skateboarding fun. Let's aim for something iconic.

Think more of this......