A Skating Adventure
Friday, August 18, 2006
So we changed what is becoming a regular arrangement and went to skate the R-Kade park, Redcar, on Tuesday night instead of Wednesday. We were dumb asses - because when we got there we realised that the skatepark closes earlier on a Tuesday evening. 50 minutes from home and stading in the first few drops of rain, it looked like a wasted trip and no skating for us...
But hey, you gotta drive through Middlesbrough on the way back from Redcar, and Middlesbrough is home to a new skate park - the Prissick Plaza. Despite the rain we decided to go check it out. None of us had seen the park before and taking a look, even if it is raining, has got to be better than just driving to Redcar, turning around and then driving back. And besides, there's always the chance that it will stop raining.
And it did. Well, not at first, but after about 20 minutes the rain stopped and it started to dry out - and I don't know what type of concrete it is, but it dried real fast!
But none of that came before us first climbing over the fence (note: if you ever need to, climb the gate as it doesn't have spikes on the top), nearly falling into an insanely big bowl and then sliding around on some freshly waxed, and wet ramps. You know what it's like when you go somewhere new and there's nobody else there: you're running around trying everything out and you don't know what to look at next...
We played around in the bowl a little, which is massive, skated around the place and just as it started to get dark we tried to ollie the gap between the kicker and the raised middle section. Cock-eyed plans aside, our little adventure in to Middlesbrough turned out to be a good night. Here's some pictures and a few clips. I heard the track on DC MTN.LAB - it's "In a Big Country" by Big Country, from their album The Crossing. Great Tune.
