October 14, 2011

First World Problems

Found this on the desktop. Cool huh?

Jackal's Plymouth Park Update! By Dan

Much progress made as cement is filling in fast—they have a sign up asking people to NOT skate so the cement doesn’t get ruined before it completely sets. Probably a good idea to respect that request and suspect some rubes have already skated it to prompt the sign. Still hard to tell what the ledges will end up being. Lot packed into a small area. Three of the four corners of the park are done, hips are biggest disappointment unless you are looking for a Dew Tour training zone--bring your jock strap. If you like skating hips for lip tricks you are stoked too—they are steep enough you can probably balance a lipslide with both wheels in the air. Metal work (handrails, flatbars, etc.) all looks pretty good though pretty vanilla. Bit worried that the gravel “infield” area is going to stay gravel as we all know damn well that will quickly infiltrate the skating surface. Looking forward to skating very smooth ground then getting pitched by a wayward piece of gravel, only to land hand-first on supplemental wayward pieces of gravel.
I'm compelled to echo the sentiment of a commenter last time and say, lighten up Dan. Shit looks fun and really close to what they've got in St. Cloud. It's instantly the best skatepark in town.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry, maybe sound too harsh on the place? Just trying to provide and honest, unbiased report. As I said from start, it will probably be best park in town. I just thought if spending money on a park, make a little effort to make it best in the area, not just in town. Guess that's just me? And I'm possibly bummed that I went out of my way to participate in the planning process to steer it towards something that people won't have complaints with. Mabybe I'm wrong, but I really suspect people will have some complaints with some of the stuff there. We'll find out in a couple weeks I guess--will be interested to see what people think when they acutally skate it. Sorry, I should stop drinking before I post here.

-Dan Jackson

platinumseagulls said...

Being involved in the planning can be such a drag. I was in on planning the Overpass, look how that turned out. Just calling it the way I see it though. It'll be good just because of what it is, and it's a step on the way to getting more parks like it in the Metro. Hopefully as more plaza like places show up, they improve. Thanks for the info Dan.

Anonymous said...

Where in Plymouth is the park?

Anonymous said...

If the "where is Plymouth in the park" question is referring to the Plymouth "P" that will be a skateable bank (in the vein of the old Pillsbury "P"), this will be the 4th corner of the park & is not there yet. And note, this field correspondents feelings were not hurt by ruthless words by Platinumseagulls, Inc's brass and he vows to continue providing hard-hitting coverage of the Plymouth skatepark construction. Furthermore he will NOT accept corporate-friendly terms like "good" when "better" is/was easily attainable!

-Field Correspondent Jackson

Anonymous said...

what is the address of the park?

Anonymous said...

You're on a computer. Google it.

Anonymous said...

wow you guys are dicks, stop being so bitter and just tell him where the fucking park is, trying to be so cool is out

sprntrl said...

I drove by there yesterday. There were about a dozen kids skating what was finished already despite the signs that clearly say to please not skate until the cement is dry ( I cant front, when I was their age I would have disregarded the sign as well ). Anyways, the place looked pretty legit, but I'm gonna say Oakdale is still in the front running for 'best local park'. Either way its good that these parks are starting to pop up and hopefully other cities will follow suit. Once we get a dozen or so of these parks, then we can really debate what park is best....

Terry ferkey said...

I just wanna thank Dan for all the info. I just want a good manual pad like Oakdale and I'll be psyched. Thanks for everything you did for the scene guys.

Anonymous said...

When you google Plymouth Skatepark it just shows the address for the shitty skatewave park. So fuck you.

Sandbox said...

Dank, they got a soccer field.