I guess making a skatepark with foam for the backfill isn’t such a big deal after all. John Kehoe sent in some pictures of a park under a bridge in Holland outside of Amsterdam in a place called Koog a/d Zand. (?) It was built by a Dutch company called Carve in 2005. They cut the foam by passing a current through a wire stretched across wood, like a bow strung with a toaster element. RC geeks use the same method on a smaller scale for cutting wing and fuselage elements out of foam. Although, in a link from the first time we talked about this, some people just use a chainsaw. Pics from John Kehoe after the jump.
Skatepark in Holland – Foam used as backfill
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8 comments
billy coulon
that shits tight!
Me
Its not so good, weird transistion, som annoying kinks.skateable, not really nice
mc
Holy cow nweyesk8! You have a regular skatopia NW going there.
Abegnegal
That’s how the foam part of surfboards are often shaped also.
zed-word
Yeah, Dick Cheney and his damn global warming machine. Right?
nweyesk8
what rain problem?
LINK
conahan
Holy crap. Under a bridge but lighted and walled? We could use that around here in the rainy season.
micha
Here are some more Pics from this Skatepark:
http://www.sk8mag.de/Spots/Zaanstad/