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Sometimes we wake up and just think we are dreaming. For many
of us who have been skating for allot of years, we have seen many great
skate parks come and go like Big O, Skate City, The Pipeline and Del Mar
to name a few. Yet now it seems like everywhere you turn there is a new
skate park being built. This is a really good thing for skating since it
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Right now there are a ton of parks here in southern California and the problem is to know where they all are and how bitchen they are or how bad they suck before you get there. A website called SoCalSkateparks.com that went live back in June of 2003 really helps fill the information void on getting the low down on all the parks. The site is the most comprehensive you will find online that covers all the parks here in So Cal. There is over 100 parks from Santa Barbara to San Diego that are covered on this site. |
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Every listing gives you plenty of photos of any given park to let you see if the park has what you want to skate, a review of the park on it’s high and low points, complete address and directions to the park, the hours the park is open, if the park is free to skate or if it costs, general rules on if they require pads or not and it even tells you the current temperature and weather conditions at the park. A slick feature of the guide is that you can put in where you live and it will give you exact driving directions to that park –fricking technology rules! |
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There is even a part of the website that lets you know where future parks are being built and if they are in the planning, design or under construction. |
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The sic part of this site is that it is the work of just some
Punk skater by the name of Mike Hirsch who goes way back to the early days
of the OC Punk scene. He grew up skating in OC and was a member of the
Variflex skate team back in the day. He was turned onto Punk at and early
age by a neighbor which has served as a perfect sound tract for an
activity that he has done all his life. |
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Mike on any given weekend can be found skating the parks all
over, talking to the people behind the creation of the park, taking photos
of the parks and documenting the action that takes place there. All the
work has been done for you on where to find some new places to skate this
year, all you have to do is just go shredd them. |
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