This ramp is apparently in Mardid, Spain, and I found the flick here, via Mike Ferry, a fellow Giraffe. I think this is an awesome idea, and gives non-skateboarders a better frame of reference for what a mini-ramp is. Going to session a ramp with some friends is the same as getting together for a pickup game of basketball.
Haveboard, I don’t know if I agree with your basketball metaphor. You guys remember the Skatenerd shirt that said “If I thought skateboarding was a sport I never would have started.”? I always thought that was pretty on-point. Not to knock traditional sports. They have their place and I enjoy watching and playing them. But I don’t know that you can compare a mini-ramp session to a pickup basketball game.
Didn’t take long for someone to take the sports metaphor too literal. I’m not saying ‘skateboarding is a sport’. It IS a recreational activity for some. And there are plenty of under used tennis courts and basketball courts(etc.), and not enough mini-ramps and satellite street parks and things like that.
it would have been radder if they panted a mural of THE PEOPLES COURT
paint on ramps sucks. go with a nice varnish. sand her down first. and no drips for chrissake!
silly americans…this is not a basketball court…its painted to look like a futbol field…or how you americans would say “soccer”
A bunch of skaters talking about sports is like skaters talking about politics. No one knows what the hell they are talking about! Love the link Jon, the ramp looks rad. Wish more skate spots had interesting art.
I KNOW IT IS A FUTBOL FIELD, I just used a basketball game in my analogy. Are their pick me up games of soccer(futbol)?
Nugget, please stop assuming that skaters are less than highly intelligent.
I think it’d be funny to see some kids play soccer on that ramp. You know it’s gonna happen.
Nugget you’re normally on point but I have to disagree with you here. I know what I’m talking about with sports and politics as I have an interest in both. My interests in politics though is definitely a love/hate thing as it usually just ends up pissing me off.
dfiant, you may be correct. YOU may know what you are talking about, but most of us don’t. It was really just a joke.
could this be a way of sneaking shit in under the radar? camo?
Sports and politics suck. Get out of the vortex.