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not sure of the details of this project, just saw it on the greenhills skatepark facebook page and thought i'd post the pics here.

the ledge looks cool for backside 5050 3 pointers

Probably would have been safer to incorporate an Archery range into the skatepark instead of a basketball court....

Baskateball

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who the fuck designs these mixed use spaces? it's like putting a fucking hockey field on the green of a gold course!

DeathMoth is on the money. What kind of wiener thinks this will work? Do skateboards actually design skateparks? I don't get it..

There was actually a dad playing hockey with his kid on the already packed skatepark at my local recently. People are fucking stupid.

The redfern basketball setup works because there's no intersecting lines, but I don't think they can really create anything similar using this space.

There's gotta be a way to design both elements...?

Basketballs, remote control cars, frisbees, slinkys, smashing bottles, fire, syringes, chainsaws, my dick... All very fun things for kids to play with, but there's a time and a place for everything, and it's not at a skatepark

Skaters generally don't sue, or are not letigious as a group. By increasing the likelyhood of non skaters getting injured by skaters because they are playing basketball on a "skate space" is a highly propable situation.

Can we get back to skateparks being just that, and proper ones not uninspired and ill concieved 4ft yawnfests?

Fuck Australia is getting left behind. It is an easy sell for the designers because councils love that kind of stuff.

If the basketball court was there first, and putting obstacles around the outside is a cost effective way to get something for a small budget then fair enough, I get it. This could be the case I don't know.

After reading the little description on that council release, it seams that the court was there first and this development is only on one half of it

What's the other half? A tennis court/bowl?

Must just be a half court originally?

Either way who wants to become part of the Australia Baskateball team?

If the basketball court was already there and they are putting skate stuff around the outside, fair enough. I don't know why you would put the flow with everything heading straight towards the key and hoop. Ledges around the outside where flow goes around the outskirts of the court where people can play and skate at the same time perhaps?

Skatepark design facepalm yet again. Australia is so getting left behind

Just rode there today. poorly built skatepark. Days before opening they cut down the basketball hoop. There was about 30 people there and the park can't handle that many people. I don't know how it would have been with people trying to play basketball today. Over all the park has smooth transitions and a pretty big hip. This park is really only for skaters, To small for bikers. I saw a bmx ride jump from to red hip to the rock ledge above, like a step-up. And just to mention the park is slightly different than in the plans above.

im glad they chopped the hoop.

i saw it a couple weeks ago before they pulled the fences down.
anyone got any photos yet?

doesnt seem like its worth an hour drive, but nice for a little roll if you're nearby.

What are the ledges like? are they well placed or more just an after thought?

To get the funding and to appease the local wingers they had to make it more general use. Hence the basketcase hoop. The plans were tweaked 2 years ago by skaters but the hoop had to stay. A couple of weeks back during construction people were complaining on a shire facebook page about the hoop and it looks like that got it removed. It was always a basketball court but no-one played basketball and skaters were all over it so council tried to do the right thing by skaters and make it a proper skate spot.

Anyone got any pics of the park?

I'll be going there again this week, I'll post some pics. I actually had a lot of fun there, I kinda treated it as more of a spot than a park, kinda like those redfern ledges. I feel like they could have put a pyramid in the middle or a rail or something if they ditched the basketball hoop idea early in the piece.

The small curved ledge is really fun.

We dropped over a few weekends ago. It's small and pretty busy. It's a bit of fun but you wouldn't want to travel a long way to get there. Build quality seemed good but there's not much there beyond beginner fun. I'll post up some pics.

About a four foot quarter running down to flat. Learn low and work your way up.

There's a curved manual pad which you won't have trouble getting onto.