Foam skateparks

More foam used in skatepark construction

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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Foam skatepark in Holland

Foam skatepark in Holland

Foam skatepark in Holland

Foam skatepark in Holland

Foam skatepark in Holland

Discussion

8 thoughts on “More foam used in skatepark construction

  1. Here are some more Pics from this Skatepark:
    http://www.sk8mag.de/Spots/Zaanstad/

  2. Holy crap. Under a bridge but lighted and walled? We could use that around here in the rainy season.

  3. nweyesk8 on October 28, 2008 - Reply

    what rain problem?
    LINK

  4. zed-word on October 28, 2008 - Reply

    Yeah, Dick Cheney and his damn global warming machine. Right?

  5. Abegnegal on October 28, 2008 - Reply

    That’s how the foam part of surfboards are often shaped also.

  6. Holy cow nweyesk8! You have a regular skatopia NW going there.

  7. Its not so good, weird transistion, som annoying kinks.skateable, not really nice

  8. billy coulon on October 31, 2008 - Reply

    that shits tight!

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