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manual tricks. started landed on two new ones I've never done before, then we got kicked out before I could actually land any. it's the only manny pad in town and it's a bust you only get to skate for twenty minutes every Sunday. I'm going to be dying to go back just because I want to see if I can get those tricks despite the situation (which in a way makes it even more fun)
It is unfortunate that property damage is a part of skating, especially when it comes to manny spots. People who don't skate don't realize that there is very little to no property damage doing mannys (especially for 90% of the spots that are not high traffic). To equate it to golf, mannys are like putting. Sure, you could make a divot, but it is highly unlikely. Also, for whatever reason, all the skateparks around here don't make a simple manny pad. It drives me crazy.
I think the noise is the problem there rather than the damage. I live in a small city right now and the mentalities are just so unprepared. They just repaved the entirety of downtown as an attempt to make the city look modern, so they turned it into an insane spot with blocks and ledges everywhere and no one even expected the skateboarders to claim the place, it's pretty funny. Eventually they tried skatestopping the place, but they put the knobs on all the ledges people don't skate and you can take them off with the Allen key that comes with your skate tool, which I'm all for but, on their end, is terrible logic. So I wouldn't count on my local people to understand the technicalities of why it's harmless of me to choose to waste my time balancing on two wheels when in reality, they just don't want to see skateboarders there. This place is a hopeless shithole where I've been told my wheels 'ruined the ground' by cops on bikes and horses taking a huge shit on the road mid-sentence before, I'm done arguing...
But as someone who loves doing mannys I'm with you on the lack of manny pads in parks, we don't really have them here either unless you skate the ledges as such but that's annoying for everybody. At my local we have one slappy curb replica that's barely wider than your board and has a rail running parallel to its side and a pit on the other side (for people to grind the inside of the pit), so even basic tricks into manny / nosemanny, or fakie / sw approaches are discouraging there. But if it were a proper and legal manny pad, I'd probably spend way too many hours to admit there.
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