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The park is nearing completion - we're looking at opening officially on April 25th. It's amazing, to be honest! What can I say about it? We've been working on this for something like 12 years now; that's when we started campaigning and working for a proper skatepark in Dorchester (Dorset, UK) and I'm stoked to help out and get something decent made - and the skatepark is looking wild. It combines mini ramps transitions, modern shaped bowls, classic bowls, street areas, pump bumps, hips, volcanoes, ledges, flat banks... and more.

It is nice when your local council gets it. In Middelburg they can't complain. They've had the indoor Meker skatepark for a while now (a cool little ramp set-up inside an old sports hall) and now only 50 meters away from this place a new outdoor spot is shaping up. Making the most out of a little space, and a limited budget of course, is tough but it looks like there was some good

Al D went to the newly constructed JOE TISEO MEMORIAL SKATE PARK located in Bloomfield NJ on Saturday. A huge crowd of supporters showed up for the opening ceramonies which dedicated the park in honor of the late pro bmx rider Joe Tiseo.
All of the Bloomfield township polititions were on hand to praise the hard efforts of those involved in making this park become a reality. Ralph Sinisi gave a speach in Joe T's honor in which made you feel happy you had known Joe but also brought on tears to all in the crowd how deeply he is missed.

Afterwards we rode the park and shook off the fridgid winter temperature and did a few tricks for the spectators.

If there is ever going to be an Empire Of Dirt event in Newton Abbott again, the riders have now an extra spot to session. Gravity Engineering just finished up a concrete park next to the Decoy trails and BMX track. The opening was held on 15 November and Brendan sent us some photos of the session. The grippy park has tons of lines so if you're heading west in the UK, check it out.

In Sondershausen a new, exceptional indoor skatepark is going to be realized in the nearer future. Camp Ramps is responsible for the design, planning and the realization of the setup. Through its open design and its variety in ramp-structures, the skatepark is going to attract skateboarders and BMX riders of all riding levels at the same time.

In order to ensure proper skate area planning and conception, it is necessary to understand exactly what kind of sports skating, BMX and inline are. Skating emerged at the end of the 1960s in California, and was joined by BMX at the beginning of the 70s and inline skating during the mid 80s. The first official skate park (made of concrete) was opened in 1976 in Florida, though a considerably more famous example is Carlsbad Park in Carlsbad, California, which was 

Everyone who has been involved in getting a spot to ride knows that it can be a long process to make things happen. The Helm trails in Helmond had received some support fromt he local council which was a good start but with the bad dirt and open playground style of location, it needed some help. If it wasn't for Mike van de Kerkhof, not much would have happened. He was the driving force behind getting the Helm Trails back off the ground. After numerous phonecalls and visits the place received an upgrade, and a good one at that.

It takes forever to convince a local council to spend some money on a skatepark. In Antwerp, Belgium it was time for a new set-up and they did it right. They hired Team Pain for the job, had some of them Americans around in Belgium for a few weeks to get the job done and the result is a killer park. Since it's made of concrete you can expect it to be around for a while too so props to the Antwerp council for coming through on this. The place is public, open at all times to bikes as well and basically has a lot to offer for everyone. Seeing someone like Gary Young, Morgan Wade and Alistair Whitton

The Helm Trails in Helmond, Netherlands were plowed with the intention to make it a bigger and better place. 20 truckloads of good dirt were dropped, a container (starting hill) will be placed next week and the opening jam will happen very soon. This weekend shaping the jumps is on the program. Bring your shovel, lend a helping hand, name a take off after yourself, just show up.

They used to be the " GT Actionbike Show team " in the old days, remember? Bernd Froehner and Matt Pingel. These days they finished a neat new concrete bike park in Bayreuth, Germany.

Super smooth to ride and all Banks got transitions on the bottom, so you don't loose speed at the usual bottom kink. A pretty unusual center obstacle is there as well, the curved volcano. All good stuff.