dream backyard skate spots

[modern life is war]

To keep things sort of realistic let's say you just have a regular sized suburban backyard to build in, like Lance Mountain's backyard for example.

You've won the lottery and you've allocated yourself $100k to build your dream spot in your backyard.

What do you build?

[Gab]

3 stair with banked wall over it, 3 foot quarterpipe, Slappy curb (double sided), shin high ledge/manny, and a flatbar. That’s all it takes for me.

[lamfordie]

I love what Ryan Gallant has at his place. Ideal skating if you ask me.

[urbneathme]

mega ramp

[Blueabyssofthisss]

I’d want a cool gap or something. But it would be unsuspecting so my yard could still look nice and not like a skatepark. An elevated part of the patio with a little water feature waterfall thing running down a steep hillside to a small pond at the bottom. 5 stair height but 7 stair length with lots of run up. Would be disguised as the eating area but we’d push the table out of the way to skate. Landing would be the bottom part of the patio right next to the pond. Where the grill or whatever is. Always had dreams of gapping a small waterfall

You’d need a mansion to make it look right I bet. A very particular hill terrain as well.

[SatanicPanic]

I would basically make a spot with a bunch of small banks with curbs at the top like some of the schools we have here. All paved in asphalt but with cement curbs. One really steep tiled bank like the school in LA. A ledge and a flat bar. And a wooden mini with a tree that shades one side.

[skippersoldballs]

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[TastyBurrito]

Colin Provost’s and Tony Trujillo’s back yard set ups are options for me.

[lurker_and_poster]

Entrance door 2 up and down stair spot,
In the Driveway one Granit ledge and in the back a clover backyard bowl.
Done - don’t need to move out of my own property
ever again.

[Aquatic Dinosaur]

A full yard of a mini bowl like those massive bowls the creature team skates in ganggreen but only 2-3 feet high.  And a huge full pipe right next to it.

[DaleSr]

Mini bowl like weird wood, some silly manual pad curb cuts all salba sauced, a bank to wall to do wallrides on and a low ledge, but probably hidden in the corner of the yard behind a breeze block wall to appease the wife. And it would all be pink

[Lou Strux]

Mini bowl like weird wood, some silly manual pad curb cuts all salba sauced, a bank to wall to do wallrides on and a low ledge, but probably hidden in the corner of the yard behind a breeze block wall to appease the wife. And it would all be pink

You forgot the “shack-in-the-back” for ol’ Lou to live in.

[A Not At All Naughty Chemist]

[DaleSr]

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Mini bowl like weird wood, some silly manual pad curb cuts all salba sauced, a bank to wall to do wallrides on and a low ledge, but probably hidden in the corner of the yard behind a breeze block wall to appease the wife. And it would all be pink

[close]

You forgot the “shack-in-the-back” for ol’ Lou to live in.

I would love for you to be my pool boy Lou, but that require you coming down from the bay to SD baby

[sluggers]

I’d be fine with one or two of these for one/one hundredth the cost.

https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2020/11/02/backyard-mini-ramps-created-lockdown/

100k would build you a pretty sweet concrete plaza, but would need to be bigger than your average backyard.

[Steely Daniel]

I'd cook up some kind of super Ben Degros skate compound but with all granite ledges and maybe a small concrete bowl off to the side if I could afford it.

[modern life is war]

I'd have a ramp that was somewhere between a half pipe and a mini ramp. 8ft high with 8ft transitions so there wouldn't be any vert but definitely steep enough to boost airs. Pool coping on both sides. No extension or any extra shit, just an honest ramp. Probably like 35ft wide. And that would be it

[landedprimo]

I want a backyard like Ben DeGros has

[sle_epy]

I'd build something where you could do street lines several ways on the same obstacles. And a fun little quarter wavy section. If I had room left over a pump track. First though I'd buy a pole barn kit and get a cement pad laid. I'd take less obstacles for shelter on fewer obstacles. Winter sucks.

[Candied cigarettes]

16 foot or wider mini ramp. As much as I’d like a hip i think those need a lot of space to be fully functional. Besides the mini I think a long double sided curb, and a manny pad/box would be on the list

[Plan9Customs]

3 stair with banked wall over it, 3 foot quarterpipe, Slappy curb (double sided), shin high ledge/manny, and a flatbar. That’s all it takes for me.

You just about named the ‘skatepark’ in Marysville.
2stair with bank up/down it, curb with ledge on top, 1’ high ledge 3’ mellow quarter, 3’ barrier quarter, and a 8” high round bar. All crammed in a 20’x30’ space.

[Lee Ralphs Dear Old Mum]

My friends mini bowl,

[Gab]

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3 stair with banked wall over it, 3 foot quarterpipe, Slappy curb (double sided), shin high ledge/manny, and a flatbar. That’s all it takes for me.

[close]

You just about named the ‘skatepark’ in Marysville.
2stair with bank up/down it, curb with ledge on top, 1’ high ledge 3’ mellow quarter, 3’ barrier quarter, and a 8” high round bar. All crammed in a 20’x30’ space.

Haha yep I been there. The only place I’ve ever done a Smith grind *gasp* on a ledge (which I believe led directly into the grass)

[Plan9Customs]

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3 stair with banked wall over it, 3 foot quarterpipe, Slappy curb (double sided), shin high ledge/manny, and a flatbar. That’s all it takes for me.

[close]

You just about named the ‘skatepark’ in Marysville.
2stair with bank up/down it, curb with ledge on top, 1’ high ledge 3’ mellow quarter, 3’ barrier quarter, and a 8” high round bar. All crammed in a 20’x30’ space.

[close]

Haha yep I been there. The only place I’ve ever done a Smith grind *gasp* on a ledge (which I believe led directly into the grass)

Pretty much. I think there’s about 3’ before you hit grass.

[Gab]

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3 stair with banked wall over it, 3 foot quarterpipe, Slappy curb (double sided), shin high ledge/manny, and a flatbar. That’s all it takes for me.

[close]

You just about named the ‘skatepark’ in Marysville.
2stair with bank up/down it, curb with ledge on top, 1’ high ledge 3’ mellow quarter, 3’ barrier quarter, and a 8” high round bar. All crammed in a 20’x30’ space.

[close]

Haha yep I been there. The only place I’ve ever done a Smith grind *gasp* on a ledge (which I believe led directly into the grass)

[close]

Pretty much. I think there’s about 3’ before you hit grass.

Just googled it, it was the small ledge that leads directly into the barrier haha. I always wondered why they didn’t put a deck on the qp, probably cost, but seems dangerous lol

[ok boomer]

Drainage ditch with curbs and ledges at the tops

[my bad cuh]

some nice smooth FLAT ground, a painted parking block, a mini qp and maybe a barrier type thing
i have no proper flatground to learn tricks on within walking distance and i cant really go to parks whenever i want to because i have no way of getting there
also no proper curbs, shit sucks