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P-Rod Skate Plaza Grand Opening – Saturday, September 27th

September 28, 2008 Leave a Reply

DSCF4535, originally uploaded by spohnranchskateparks.

L.A.’s First Skate Plaza: Grand Opening Photos
Transworld Skateboarding
Carleton Curtis Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | 4,616 views |

B&W Photography by Yoon Sul
Color Photography by Carleton Curtis

[WILMINGTON, CA] If I told you the City of Los Angeles didn’t boast a 100% skate plaza, would you believe me? Well up until yesterday, the so-called skate mecca of the world didn’t have one. I know, poor Los Angeles, right? Nevertheless, the grand opening of the brand-spankin’-new Ambassador Skate Plaza in Wilmington yesterday was a monumental occasion. Technically, the park opened six years ago but its design just wasn’t cutting it anymore by today’s standards. As demonstrated by any recent contest and of course, the DC Skate Plaza project, it’s all about mimicking the streets. So Maxwell Billieon of the Ambassador Series worked with councilwoman Janice Hahn and Michael Shull at the LA Department of Recreation and Parks to revamp the park… and the rest, as you’ll soon see, is history. Big ups to co-designer Paul Rodriguez, Daewon Song, Spohn Ranch Skateparks and the City of LA for creating an amazing (and free!) concrete and granite wonderland. Plus, no pads!!!

For more photos:
http://skateboarding.transworld.net/2008/09/28/las-first-skate-plaza-grand-opening-photos/

Video coming soon!

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Grand Opening of P-Rod Skate Plaza co-designed & built by Spohn Ranch Skateparks

September 25, 2008 Leave a Reply

Skatepark Design – Wilmington Youth Destination Spot by Spohn Ranch Skateparks, originally uploaded by spohnranchskateparks.

Co-Designed by Paul “P-Rod” Rodriguez, Jr. and Spohn Ranch Skateparks. This is from Day 2 of construction. The pieces are lifted from a truck to the site.

Typically, the pieces are placed on concrete footers. When the pieces are completely fitted, concrete flatwork is poured around the pieces, seamlessly joining the slab to the SpohnCrete elements such as quarter-pipes, banks, fun-boxes and every other feature found in a poured-in-place concrete or fabricated skatepark. At Wilmington, the city already had a slab, previously home to a fabricated ramp park.

Due to SpohnCrete’s ease of install, minor customization of the slab results in a totally smooth concrete skatepark with seamless transitions from the slab to transitions and banks.

The video below shows a ledge piece craned from the truck to the site. It demonstrates the speed with which SpohnCrete can create a custom-designed (in this case, co-designed with P-Rod, one of the top street skaters in the world, and several of his fellow pro skaters.

The Grand Opening is September 27th and will be amazing. P-Rod and 2007 Skater of the Year Daewon Song will skate demos with participation by various awesome brands and people from politics, business, sports, etc… For more information about the Grand Opening, go to http://www.theambassadorseries.com

Here’s quick video of the installation:

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