DIY concrete skatepark help

[Hank Ewbank]

hey pals. i am a part of a noble coalition to give my small, shitty town a skatepark. thing is, we don't have much money, so i thought a diy concrete skatepark would be a fun, possibly more cost-effective way to go. so, i got some questions:

- could an approx. 40x40 diy skatepark be more cost-effective than buying some lame wooden ramps (meaning, what does decent diy terrain like this

Vans Skate x Spitfire - San Francisco

cost to produce)?

- is there some concrete terrain resource anyone could point me to? our weather is rough, so wooden ramps seem like a bad idea.

- do you have any basic instructions on how to produce obstacles like this? details worth nothing?

- any other advice at all?

i appreciate any help, since as you can see, we're really not going on too much here besides a budget of about 2-4 thousand dollars. thank you for reading, and if there is a more appropriate place i can post this, please let me know.

ps: is it true jereme rogers just picked up sponsorship from pcp and shame?

[marginal way]

sift through here..... there's some good info. http://www.thrashermagazine.com/forum/board20.0/

there's also www.skatepark.org

study before you try. concrete isn't rocket science, but it's not exactly easy, either.

try a couple small projects before you go big. be prepared to fail. horribly.

don't give up.

[ice nine]

wow what the fuck that was the best fs 360 ive ever seen

[SwiftFootedBird]

a budget of about 2-4 thousand dollars.

that's a lot. me and a friend of mine have built lotsa ramps just stealin the crete and debris to fill. the thing, using debris/whatevs as filler should be: 1 bag of crete, 2 of sand and 3 of gravel for every 1m tall x 1m wide x 1m long QP.how much is that, 10 bucks? 15 maybe? shit lasts forever if well done. just practice with smaller shit as this dude said. after half a dozen of try-and-fail/win you should already be able to do it properly.

IMPORTANT: there's a pretty generalized mistake, that of designing too mellow transitions. Not bad one or two for begginners, but most of the thing should be like 1m tall for a 1.20m transition (so 20 cm before reaching vert) and so on.