Gumeracha Skatepark
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Concrete park with square bowl opening onto a street area with fun box, rails, ledges, flat banks and a euro gone wrong I think.
41 Albert St, Gumeracha SA 5233, Australia
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park is a half star at best. was built by the local tradies who did the best they could. but doing someones driveway and building a skatepark are complete opposites. nothing here is remotely fun, theres too much in such a small space. the bowl is a weird shape and u cant hit most of it. one part has a gap in the coping, the funboxes are too small to skate and the ledges are again too small. basically curb height. the euro part and the bank its on is too steep to skate as a hip. the 2 rails have no run up at all and are cramped in general. the stairset rail as u can see is way too steep and super low at the bottom. basically the park is a waste of 110 grand which is roughly wat it all cost. i live within 20 minutes of the park and had no idea they were building it which sux as had i known i wouldve hit up a council meeting and just said put in a small bowl. a manny pad and a rail or something because that wouldve been 100% better than this. legit waste of time and money. also emailed the hills council that had it built and congradulated them on wasting the cash. didnt get a reply. but when the town is full of coked out footy players wat do u expect
this looks better then half a star,check out the mackay skateparks and compare.
sussed mackay, without having skated there obviously im still gunna put it like this mackay > gumeracha incase ur wondering wats wrong with the euro, look super close and u can see the stairs arent cut into the cement they actually stick out as if there built on top of the cement and not into it. and bcoz the bank that theyre on is so steep and the transition from flat to bank is so sharp aswell there being only a boards lenth of kicker u hit the bank and before u can pop to go up the stairs ur nose actually hits the stairs sticking out. legitimately the most retarded design and building fault at a skatepark ive ever seen. i tried for half hour to ollie up it and 100% couldnt do it. all they had to was go to the design of prospect and they would have a park i would visit every single day.
I went on a day trip with the Adelaide Hills council around to different parks with a bus load of skaters and we got 1 hr at each park and at the end we had to right up what features we wanted and shiz for this park here, so they did do a fair bit of planning and the design would of been good if there was just a little bit more space inbetween features and just constructed a bit better... hopfully they learn from there mistakes..