Author: gethnobleskateparks

A high capacity public space designed to serve the entire community. Ample space for beginning riders to safely learn to roll. Shaded benches provide comfortable viewing  areas outside the lanes of traffic.  Two bowled areas separated by central stepped seating allows for two simultaneous tranny sessions. Street features lining the periphery utilize the elevation drop from deck to sidewalk.

We will soon break ground on this bowl/chin-mini combo at Geth Noble Skateparks world headquarters in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Although it’s more accurate to say that we will soon break concrete, since this bowl will be inside our warehouse. Click on the photos to see them enlarged! 2.8 meters deep in the deep end, 2 in the shallow, 1 meter deep chin mini.

Because the shallow and deep-end pockets are egg-shaped, this bowl has mega speed lines that lead directly to blastable hips and transfers. You never have to interrupt your flow to find the hip line, it’s all included in the fastest carve lines. One landing pocket is banked for easy landings. One can potentially air every hip consecutively. The central pump bump blends into the peninsula hips, forming saddles. Sickos can ollie off the peninsulas and land on the face of the pump bump.

In Bali people have been digging huge holes to get the white limestone, it’s an excellent road base. Consequently there are many huge divots dug into hillsides. This design utilizes one such divot. Many of the architectural features of this skatepark are things I see daily while riding my Honda Scoopy around Bali’s Bukit Peninsula, where I live. The entrance plaza is truly multi-purpose, featuring a stage for performances and plenty of flat for the audiences. Plenty of stairs provide access to the upper deck, which offers stellar views of the skate action. The stairs can be skated or also used for street workouts by fitness enthusiasts. The semi-separate mini-ramp is an awesome spot for people to work on skills in a concentrated session. The troll bowl at the back of the park uses extensions running up the side of the wall to create massive speed lines for blasting over the hips. The icons and sharp pillars evoke the headquarters of a secretive totalitarian cult. Lastly, a central flow course links this design to the cutting edge of skatepark design.

This skatepark is located in a mountainous area known for its many boulders. Some of the boulders in this park are pre-existing. The ones with trees growing inside are concrete.

A troll bowl, a vert volcano, some pump bumps, shallow transfer bowls, spines, hips, roll-ins, 8 ft radius pockets for old-school pumps and mellow coping curves for those who like to stand on their grinds for days. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

A 2 meter tall central pump bump connected via curving spines to 3 peripheral bumps.

This looks like a classic troll bowl, but the vert extensions create generous speed lines for blasting over the hips.

I’ve been working on this design for 12 years, off and on. I built the first loopable funnel at Reedsport, click the link to see how it works. This new design uses big round curves for generating the speed needed for successful loop lines.