Hayling Skatepark
Hayling Skatepark
S'up crackerjackers, I got the word from Head Honch at Herbal Headquarters, and he said he wants me to tell everyone about Hayling Skatepark. First of all, to truly understand Hayling Skatepark you need to know the history of it, it used to be a sack of shit, with a way too skinny spine, two burly quarters and some tiny little funboxes that were good for a laugh, but not to be taken seriously.
That, two rails and the tabletop with the rail thingamajig. But the inbred-hick island locals, who had nothing better to do than shred it on a thrice-daily basis became tired and weary of skating the same old sub-standard bollocks day in day out, and began discussing pimping the skatepark out with the local council. After something like a year or two (I wasn't really paying attention) work began on the skatepark taking out a few bits and pieces and making some gnarly modifications.
Anyway, in between the two burl quarters there's another less burl quarter, leading to a wider and generally way better spine (no round coping though, fuckers) and that leads to this big fat quarter that stretches most of the width of the park, with a bank at each end. On the left (or right, depends where your standing innit) side of the park, the funbox had some hubba attatched up along and down for bear grinding oppertunities, where the two rails used to be there's now a 1ft high box that's long enough to grind for days, and a curb box with a round-rail on the side which is pretty funny, but looks a little hazardous to begin with.
The tabletop/rail thingamajig is still in-tact, leading up to the larger of the two banks, the long quarter means you can get yo grind awn all over the park, sharking bladers and children with the greatest of ease. During the summer- beware kids circling the park with their eyes closed over and over again, it happens. The locals are very terratorial, you'll be lucky if you skate there thirty seconds without getting bottled. But for serious, I'm only having a joke with you, nobody'll give you any jip for skating there. Unless you're skating flat ground Mullen-style getting in everyone's way, but let's not get into that.
If you see anyone nollie heelflipping everything and just generally taking the piss with 50ft melons and whatever, that's Marcus. Ask him for his skateboard. He'll say no, but it'll be funny. Out.
posted by James Shepod on September 14, 2007
