Aggressive Skate Blog

By Nick aka razorskater_11

I’m Nick, I’ve been skating for about 3 years now, and I’m going to describe my park, and why its fun, and not so fun to skate. My local park is located in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin on 8th Street. I’m 6′1″ and I’m mentioning this because I’m going to use my body as a measurement compared to the rails in the park, so it’s nice to know how tall I am. I also want to mention I live basically in the middle of nowhere, so it kind of blows. The skating scene here though, compared to many other places is amazing. There are probably close to 20 rollers in the area, ranging from 12-year-old kids with sabotages and 18-year-old kids that are sponsored. I would have to say that I’m somewhere in between them.

First thing, Mission control 1. It’s a large box basically with some stairs and a few rails and a box. The box is round on the right side and Square on the left. I like it because I do soul tricks with my left foot, so I can do soul tricks on the round, and back royales and farvs on the square. Now the handrail near the stairs, Its about waist high and slides UBER FAST! I like it to learn new tricks on, but I don’t like it because it is short. As soon as you get on it your off, its impossible to switch up on and whoever put it their should she hit really hard with a skate. Other than that, the other 2 smaller rails in the pictures are really small and easy. Mostly beginner rollerbladers and some of the skateboarders use the round one and basically no one touches the square one. The roll in is used by everyone to gain a lot of speed for spins and flip variations on the other mission control.

Second Mission Control. This is my absolute favorite part of my park. In the picture, you cannot see, but on the left there is another ramp that leads to the other mission control. I like this on because the handrail in the center is about mid-thigh high and so nice to learn new tricks on. It’s about 30 ft. long and so much fun. The 2 boxes are a lot of fun too, but there both square and rounded off, so they’re sort of hard, but that’s half the fun. The handrail is always waxed and amazingly fun. It’s at a nice angle so it’s nice for switch ups or long steezy grinds. The boxes are so much fun. The skateboarders never use these because they are either afraid to fall off of the other side (which hurts, yes iv done it) or they cant jump that high. What’s nice, is even though they are both square, its raised coping, so you can still do front royals and front unitys without sticking on your wheels if your running freestyle. The tops of the boxes are also designed for PERFECT cess slides (shuffles). And sorry it was the only picture i had so deal with my friend Erich in the picture. And those are his boxers by the way.

Fun box / Quarter Pipe. They’re OK. The rails are low and usually sticky and the skateboarders throw a fit if you wax them, so the rollers usually stick to the rails, but once in awhile a someone just doesn’t care or when no skateboarders are they, they wax them, then usually session them. On the other side of the box, there is angle iron and it’s about mid thigh high and really, really fast. The quarter pipe is always waxed and it’s about 4 ft. high. Mostly used to get speed to jump the box or do other spin variations.

Bowl. 2nd Picture. There is a 4ft; 5ft; and an 8ft. drop in. The bowl is really fun because with the way it’s shaped, it’s really easy to carve, then launch for a huge 540 or a clean 180. This is used by everyone and sometimes you can catch a skateboarder and a rollerblader switching rides and having fun. I’m not a huge fan of vert, but I mess with it once in awhile if I’m bored. It’s completely concrete and the only part of the park that is. I’ve fallen in the 8 ft. once and it hurt. What’s really nice about this bowl, is if you jump from a certain angle, there is a transition you can land in. Here is a picture of my friend doing it. It looks like he’s flying, which is kind of funny, I have better pictures, but this one shows the transition the best.

And last, the 2 fixed ground rails. The closer one is a double kink square rail that’s amazingly fun. The bottom is ALWAYS being used by skateboarders, but rollerbladers use the whole thing. The farther rail is a round rail that’s about 25 ft. long. Out of all the fun things in this park, this is my favorite because this is where I learn all my new tricks. I actually just used steel wool and cleaned it today and waxed it, so if it were longer you could go for miles, its so much fun and about shin high.

Well… This is my local park. I hope to eventually see some of you there and thanks for reading my review. My town has a very good rolling scene. I don’t have any more pictures just yet, but my town has a lot of street skating potential. Expect more pictures from me and a street review of my town. There is a rail that no one has completed yet though. Its called Hundred Stair. It’s about a 34 or 35 stair, but each stair is about 3 feet long, so it’s averaged to about 100. No one has been able to get a royale or farv ALL the way down. Definitely expect a review on that spot within the next week. Other than that, just a bunch of random ledges and average handicaps. Expect more from me guys and if you want more pictures of the park just pm me on the RW Message Board at razorskater_11

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