Imagine a session with a skatepark designer prior to building a new skatepark for the express purpose of telling (and showing) what you do and don’t like about skatepark terrain. Talk about direct feedback! Well, that’s what’s going on with Portland’s Gabriel Park. Airspeed’s first “Drop In” for Gabriel Park is going down this Saturday July 28 at 5pm in Florence Oregon. There will be others held in the Portland area too. This is a fantastic opportunity for armchair skatepark advocates. It’s one thing to sit behind your computer and anonymously criticize someone else’s work, but here’s your chance to do something constructive, live and in person. Keep checking the Airspeed site for upcoming Drop-Ins, and we’ll try to keep you posted as well. Looks like the newest concept for gabriel park is a more traditional snake run.
9 comments
Mango
i 100% agree with Gozinta . some of the best designs ive seen for these parks have been the first ones.. a snake run with the weird full pipe in it would be fuckin badass..
Gozinta
Let these guys build the first desighn.Like it says in Grovers-Video Korner {IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT GO RIDE ON OF THE OTHER 19 PARKS}. I AM SICK OF YOU BABYS WINING ABOUT THIS ONE PARK, If I were airspeed I would ignore you all like dreamland does. Snake run your balls!
Kilwag
I keep suggesting a flyout track to keep the kids out of the way, but nobody every takes me up on it. Seriously, a runway with a small dip bowl at the end, essentially a sunken launch ramp. Now put two of them side by side in opposite directions and 75% of the park traffic would be taken care of. It would be and endless loop of flyouts, but out of the way of the serious park users. Best part is, the little kids would enjoy the hell out of it.
Wider decking would be great, but I think they try to squeeze as muck skateable surface into the square footage allowed, at the expense of the deck because it still counts as part of the square footage.
jj
We need small features for the little kids to skate and stay out of the way. you know, mini half pipes. They are low cost and get used a lot. Pier parks. mico bowl and battle grounds snake run, the small end. glen heven work well also. Wider decking around the parks would be good
alex morris
see that shit would suck if they made a snake they should stick to the OG
shoey
I think the first design is the best choice . No one else will ever build something like that in portland . This is your one opportunity . Sounds like some of the other parks will be street -out of state contractors- etc. Lets put one more here that will open possibilities again . Enough replicas they’re all down in california . Build it . Embrace the chance to skate something like that at home . Its the most challenging thing I’ve seen in those designs . Build it deep , real deep . That design looked like a downhill race track with the possible opportunity to have a really good day there . My favorite stuff by airspeed is their big features .
Jason {teamshralp}
looks fun but what does everyone think about the crash up factor. im worried with the round edges that will inspire a lot of people rolling in out of no where, while someone is in the snake run. anyone else think so??
danimal
i just saw some KONA footage and that snakerun looks huge, kilwag might be right about his one being too small.
i think they should scrap the little ledges/curbs/coffin box in that design and replace them with small humps/twinkies
Kilwag
Does anyone else but me think this plot of land might be too small for a traditional snake run? Seems like we need at least one extra turn iand there doesn’t look like there’s room for it. Also, it’s hard to tell about that end bowl. It looks awfully wide.