If you haven’t checked out the new park in Lacombe yet, it’s definitely worth the trip. It’s about 15 minutes north of Red Deer and the park is located just off the highway.
If you haven’t checked out the new park in Lacombe yet, it’s definitely worth the trip. It’s about 15 minutes north of Red Deer and the park is located just off the highway.
That park kind of blows, the benches aren’t long enough to pop up & hit the rail across the back, the big bank hip thing in the middle is partly useless, elevations seem off with the high point / deck of bowl area being too high compared to the rest of the park…the qp that you hit after landing the bank to bank gap is too small…it just doens’t seem to work all that well. I had fun for sure, but a lot of pushing required where it shouldn’t have been…height relationships seemed off for sure.
Interesting comment. You must be a skatepark designer with comments like that. I’ve seen people from Red Deer, Edmonton, and Calgary rip this place with no problems with pushing or “height relationships”. Yes, they even shredded the “bank hip thing in the middle”. Come out with us next time and we’ll show you how to skate it!
That would be cool to skate with some of you guys next time, thanks for the invitation! It just seemed weird. I guess it was pretty windy too which made it even harder to get speed, plus I was skating with nobody else at all in the morning. Maybe I just didn’t get it…anyway I’ll see about hooking up next time for sure, thanks that’d be sweet!
No not a skatepark designer, I’m an Engineer who has skated a lot of parks. Maybe my snap just isn’t quick enough, but I couldn’t hit that rail on the back of the benches, or even pop up on the bench & then ollie the gap in the middle…that stuff just didn’t seem to work along with the little QP after the bank to bank gap…and to me, the heights did seem to not relate properly. There was def some cool stuff. Anyway. Maybe “kind of blows” was too strong, but anyway, my take on it is I didn’t like it that much.