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6 Places to Skateboard Outdoors in Connecticut
Is your family planning a summer vacation in Connecticut? Don’t worry. There are a number of outdoor skateparks scattered across the state. Here’s a brief look at a six of them:
1. Calf Pasture Skatepark
The Calf Pasture Skatepark is located on Calf Pasture Beach Road in Norwalk. It is an outdoor skatepark that features a manual pad, pyramid, ledges, quarter-pipe, bank, stair set and rails. Remember to put your helmet and pads on before you go as the use of proper safety equipment is required. It is open daily, weather permitting.
2. Groton Skate Park
The Groton Skate Park is located within the confines of Sutton Park off Poquonnock Road in Groton. It is an outdoor skatepark that features various transitions, a grinding rail and ledges. The use of proper safety equipment is required and the park is open daily from dawn until dusk.
3. Graham Dickinson Spirit Skate Park
The Graham Dickinson Spirit Skate Park is located in Ridgefield. The outdoor park is seasonal and is open from the spring through the end of fall. A signed waiver of liability is required as is the wearing of safety gear. An admission fee is charged. Prices vary based on when you visit. You may expect to pay $5 or more to access the skatepark. The park features concrete ledges, rails and transitions.
4. Comp Beach Skateboard Park
The Compo Beach Skateboard Park is located in Westport and consists of an asphalt surface with dual half-pipes and a series of ramps and rails. There is an $8 to $10 per person admission fee and hours of operation vary. The park is seasonal and maintains hours of operation from April through October. The use of full safety gear is mandatory.
5. City of Milford Skate Park
The City of Milford maintains a small concrete and asphalt skatepark on Washington Street as part of the E.T. Austin Sports Complex. It is open at various times each day, year round. Helmets are required and access to the park is gratis.
6. Short Beach Skate Park
There is a free outdoor skatepark located within Short Beach Park in Stratford. The use of full safety gear is required and the park is open daily spring through fall. Admission is free. It is an asphalt based park with pyramids, rails and ledges.
My children are skaters and I have a history of following the sport.
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6 Places to Skateboard Outdoors in Connecticut
Is your family planning a summer vacation in Connecticut? Don’t worry. There are a number of outdoor skateparks scattered across the state. Here’s a brief look at a six of them:
1. Calf Pasture Skatepark
The Calf Pasture Skatepark is located on Calf Pasture Beach Road in Norwalk. It is an outdoor skatepark that features a manual pad, pyramid, ledges, quarter-pipe, bank, stair set and rails. Remember to put your helmet and pads on before you go as the use of proper safety equipment is required. It is open daily, weather permitting.
2. Groton Skate Park
The Groton Skate Park is located within the confines of Sutton Park off Poquonnock Road in Groton. It is an outdoor skatepark that features various transitions, a grinding rail and ledges. The use of proper safety equipment is required and the park is open daily from dawn until dusk.
3. Graham Dickinson Spirit Skate Park
The Graham Dickinson Spirit Skate Park is located in Ridgefield. The outdoor park is seasonal and is open from the spring through the end of fall. A signed waiver of liability is required as is the wearing of safety gear. An admission fee is charged. Prices vary based on when you visit. You may expect to pay $5 or more to access the skatepark. The park features concrete ledges, rails and transitions.
4. Comp Beach Skateboard Park
The Compo Beach Skateboard Park is located in Westport and consists of an asphalt surface with dual half-pipes and a series of ramps and rails. There is an $8 to $10 per person admission fee and hours of operation vary. The park is seasonal and maintains hours of operation from April through October. The use of full safety gear is mandatory.
5. City of Milford Skate Park
The City of Milford maintains a small concrete and asphalt skatepark on Washington Street as part of the E.T. Austin Sports Complex. It is open at various times each day, year round. Helmets are required and access to the park is gratis.
6. Short Beach Skate Park
There is a free outdoor skatepark located within Short Beach Park in Stratford. The use of full safety gear is required and the park is open daily spring through fall. Admission is free. It is an asphalt based park with pyramids, rails and ledges.
My children are skaters and I have a history of following the sport.
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Treaded Skateboard Turns Any Mountain Into Your Halfpipe [Skateboards]
The hard plastic wheels used on skateboards usually means they’re relegated to only gleaming the cube on smoother surfaces like sidewalks. That’s not the case with Rockboard’s Descender, which adds tank-like treads for all-terrain ollies and kickflips.
Ok, so with 36 wheels in total (3 per set, 9 per tread) you’re probably not going to be pulling off any tricks with this thing, but that’s not why it was created. The large free-wheeling treads make the Descender usable on almost any surface, whether it’s grass, snow, or even rocky terrain. So you’re able to use it all-year-round wherever you want to.
Ironically it’s probably not actually going to be useful for impressing your friends at your local skatepark, but recklessly careening down a mountainside provides more of a thrill anyways. Available sometime this spring, for kids, teens, and adults, as long as they’re under 200 pounds. [Rockboard via Coolest Gadgets]
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New Radiate Skateboard Promises to Light Up America’s Skateparks
Ever wish you could light up a skatepark with your mere presence? Well, wish no more my attention seeking, skater friends because a new product by RB Rockboards was seemingly designed with you in mind. Here’s the skinny on how to cause chaos on the concrete:
About the Skateboard
RB Rockboard has created a bright little number called the Radiate Skateboard. It’s part skateboard and part, well, night light. The skateboard comes clad with a rechargeable LED light system that rims the bottom edges of the skate deck. There are over 40 lights in all and when fully charged they’ll undoubtedly get the homies talking about your sparkling skatepark entrance. So be prepared. With such a high profile glow about your feet, you’d better have the skating skills necessary to annihilate the asphalt or the forethought to map out the nearest and quickest skatepark exit before you go. One other caveat I should mention. The skateboard is said to accommodate riders up to 90 pounds, so you’ll need to be light on your feet in order to take a ride. The skateboard comes in a variety of colors and graphics like Rasta, Burst and orange. It comes with 95A wheels, ABEC 5 bearings, 90A bushings and aluminum cast trucks.
Where You Can See It
The skateboard is expected to retail for $99 and be available online as well as through select retail locations. If you want to see this skateboard up close and don’t live near any of the designated retail locations, you have one other option providing that you’re also a member of the toy industry. You may opt to head to the American International Toy Fair this month where the skateboard will be on display. The fair is set to take place in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and showroom locations from February 12 through the 15, 2012.
Similar Skateboards
The Radiate Skateboard may be the latest one to sport an LED system but it’s not the first. There are several others including a more expensive longboard made by Flexdex. It is called the Clear29 LT and comes with GullWing Trucks, ABEC 5 bearings and see-through wheels. The Clear29 LT tends to retail for $170.
My children are skaters and I have a history of following the sport.
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Arniko Skateboards Takes Skateboard Construction to a Higher Level
Remember when skateboards were made by craftsman and not machines? Marius Arniko Arter does because hand crafting skateboards is how he makes his living. He is the owner of Arniko Skateboards and each skateboard he produces is hand carved by artisans from the Nepali capital of Kathmandu. Here are the details:
About the Company
Arniko Skateboards is based in Nepal and uses a blend of Swiss design and Himalayan tradition to create its skateboards. The decks are constructed from various types of wood veneer like most skate decks, but that is where the similarity ends. The blank decks are then turned over to local craftsmen who are based in the Kathmandu District of Patan. The district is considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which only makes these skateboards even more exceptional. The craftsmen work their magic, giving each skateboard a unique look. The decks are then sent back to Arter for the addition of trucks and wheels. In my opinion, these skateboards are a thing of beauty and adding traditional grip tape to them would be downright criminal. Check them out online and make that decision for yourselves.
About the Skateboards
Purchasing an Arniko Skateboard may not bring you inner peace or good karma but it will definitely give you a skateboard worth cherishing. The skateboards come in three styles (classic, Makalu and eighties). Classic decks are 67 cm x 17 cm. Makalu decks are 63.5 cm x 19.5 cm and eighties decks are 67 cm x 23 cm. You may expect to pay $217 or more per skateboard. You may purchase the skateboards online or through select dealers noted on the company’s website.
Other Artists
Arter is just one of many who have used skateboards as a canvas. To my knowledge, however, his are the first ones to be hand carved in Nepal and completely functional. In the spring of 2011, German museum curator Tobias Megerle had a dozen Mahim woodcarvers in Mumbai create stunning skateboards for an exhibit entitled Final Cut. The skateboards, despite being aesthetically pleasing, were not practical. They were skate art pieces for art’s sake and not art for skate’s sake. Other skate artists known to use wood carving or wood burning techniques include Piotr Woronkowicz and George Peterson. Unlike those three, Arter’s skateboards are pieces of art meant to be ridden.
My children are skateboards and I have a history of following the sport.
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Berkeley teen dies after skateboard-car collision
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