What makes up a basic skateboarding park?
Posted by Your Guide on May 24, 2006 5:00 PM There are three basic pieces of equipment that allow for you to call your slice of concrete a skate park. Some of these things will have different names so if you mention one of these and get a funny look, then just describe it and that person will probably know that piece of equipment by a different name. The first basic piece of equipment is a ramp. Ramps range from small-sloped ramps without a lip that only measure a couple feet off the ground to more speed effective ramps that have a lip and could be over ten feet off the ground. The size of the ramp will tend to generate more speed coming down from the higher ones so that you can move into bigger and faster moves. The lip on some of these ramps will allow people to plant, which is basically just sustain a position for more than a second, or possibly grind along the top of it for a few feet before coming back down the ramp. Most skate parks should have both varieties of ramps because of
