Beat ’em at their own game

I got an email with some computer renders from Team Pain that made me think they were dabbling with some prefab skatepark elements:

Team Pain will be presenting their newest product line for the first time at the January 09 Surf Expo. Bringing a completely new feel to the show with some unique and artistic structures made from both hand poured concrete or solid steel! If you want to be one of the first to experience these new pieces, all you need to do is make it to the Expo and the course will be open to anybody who wants to skate.

I thought I’d get some more info before I made the post since there were bound to be questions. UPDATE: Added video.

Tito coughed up the details.

Here is a quick background. We are starting to produce some fully Custom Concrete elements for street skating.

They can be made out of concrete or steel (thick steel that is) and they each are designed outside of the box (literally) so that they can be skated uniquely. They are fully customable and can also be decorated with artwork, as you can see on these examples that I painted. These examples are shown here are all mostly all concrete with no steel edges.

Ideally we want to provide items like these as an additional option to the low budget municipal Skateparks that have created a feeding frenzy for the playground industry. Our goal is to reach that market of the Skatepark industry that is being run by NON SKATEBOARDING individuals. These are strictly core street elements, so if you want a quarter pipe, then you can visit your nearest private facility or custom poured in place concrete Skatepark.

These can also be strategically placed throughout a city in key areas to provide for fun skating elements throughout a community.

Why not? It makes perfect sense for these types of obstacles, and the money might as well go to a skatepark builder instead of a playground company. My only beef is that I don’t think I can ollie onto all those things with my old knees. Come guys, would it kill ya to make something that meets the ground? Prefab concrete launch ramps are the next big thing! Who knows?

Here’s a selection of obstacles getting ready for the 2009 Surf Expo. Photos by BW (?) Click to enlarge.

This guy’s name is Ryan.

Nollie crook

This guy’s name is Nick.

Bench in the foreground, but what’s that in the back?