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Over the last few weeks I have been back and forth to the park to keep an eye on the construction progression. I've talked a fair bit with the guy in charge and tried to clear up some of my major concerns about certain moulded sections of the park.
It came to light that there were no profile plans of some of the most important parts of the bowl design. This is being taken care of by parties involved as I type.
To aid the guys doing the construction, Alex and I are going to try to do a clay sculpt of the bowl tomorrow.
I will endeavour to have updates as they come.
The following pics are of todays progress. I'm concerned about one section of coping that should have been 10 metres long (for Mach 10 50-50's), but it's now only 4.5 metres long. ???
Note that construction of one of that guys stupid humps and a second oververt wall is going to replace most of the old run-up to the old bowl. At the last couple of meetings it was agreed that this would not happen, as it would ruin the speed run into a back wall carve. Well, as usual, flat head has thrown it into the plan regardless. If the thing ruins our line, I'm gonna be ruining your attmpts to skate flat head.
digging the deep section where there will be vert and an oververt elbow.
the 6 foot deep bowl is on my left. the deep 2 are 7 foot with 9 foot radius, which also has the 9 foot section and 10 foot over-vert elbow.
here's the condition of the old bowl. I'm guessing that 150 G for the new, and 100 G for the old bowl resurface. It had better be the case! I wanted the whole 250 spent on a new park, not to fix one that ALL of the original locals hated from the first day.
rather then try to find the original pick. Here is a link to the thread with the design pic in it.
http://www.skateboard.com.au/forum/read.cfm?forum=11&thread=24975&p=9
Ah Fivedock bowl....I dreamt of skating when I was a kid and pictures of it on my wall (with Mick skating of course)
I got to skate it about 11 years ago in the wet but still loved it.
Sounds like my bedroom too!!
If only we had known the little fuzzy ball of hatred he was to become!! Just jokes Michael, your still one of my hero's.
How the hell do they go about re-surfacing something like that? (Why is another question to be discussed further down the track) Do they run a bit of Reo & pour 100mm of conc on it, screed as usual? Does this mean it would lose the kinks & gnarlyness & come out smooth like a new park albiet tighter curve? Perhaps that could be interesting but does raise Mick's question as if the money would have been best spent on something new all together. $150k seems like an awful lot for a bandaid.
I look at it this way Jess. All my life I have been as nice as anyone can be to a fellow being. Life taught me patience and tolerence. At a few points in my life people tested my lessons for beyond their boundaries.
I guess at some point I had to stop kidding myself and release all my anger. It's finding the right moment for those releases that's difficult.
It's bad enough that I feel some people I concidered friends have made me feel so unjustly treaded, but to see some of the things those people do affect the general skateboarding community just urges me to release on em.
I'm sick of seeing things that are supposed to be good for skateboarding turn into disasters.
Sorry Mick, I was definatly kidding. You earn my respect for your opinions because you put your name to them.
On another note, I hope we can continue our conversation about boards when I get back from the US. I havent written you off yet! You deserve to see out your final phase riding the best quality you can get.
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Five Dock CONSTRUCTION pics
Michael Mulhall 05:10 09/Aug/06
Over the last few weeks I have been back and forth to the park to keep an eye on the construction progression. I've talked a fair bit with the guy in charge and tried to clear up some of my major concerns about certain moulded sections of the park.
It came to light that there were no profile plans of some of the most important parts of the bowl design. This is being taken care of by parties involved as I type.
To aid the guys doing the construction, Alex and I are going to try to do a clay sculpt of the bowl tomorrow.
I will endeavour to have updates as they come.
The following pics are of todays progress. I'm concerned about one section of coping that should have been 10 metres long (for Mach 10 50-50's), but it's now only 4.5 metres long. ???
Note that construction of one of that guys stupid humps and a second oververt wall is going to replace most of the old run-up to the old bowl. At the last couple of meetings it was agreed that this would not happen, as it would ruin the speed run into a back wall carve. Well, as usual, flat head has thrown it into the plan regardless. If the thing ruins our line, I'm gonna be ruining your attmpts to skate flat head.
Michael Mulhall 05:12 09/Aug/06
digging the deep section where there will be vert and an oververt elbow.
Michael Mulhall 05:17 09/Aug/06
the 6 foot deep bowl is on my left. the deep 2 are 7 foot with 9 foot radius, which also has the 9 foot section and 10 foot over-vert elbow.
Michael Mulhall 05:21 09/Aug/06
here's the condition of the old bowl. I'm guessing that 150 G for the new, and 100 G for the old bowl resurface. It had better be the case! I wanted the whole 250 spent on a new park, not to fix one that ALL of the original locals hated from the first day.
Michael Mulhall 15:18 09/Aug/06
rather then try to find the original pick. Here is a link to the thread with the design pic in it.
http://www.skateboard.com.au/forum/read.cfm?forum=11&thread=24975&p=9
NIKEEEM 05:07 10/Aug/06
Ah Fivedock bowl....I dreamt of skating when I was a kid and pictures of it on my wall (with Mick skating of course)
I got to skate it about 11 years ago in the wet but still loved it.
Noble Jess 11:41 10/Aug/06
Sounds like my bedroom too!!
If only we had known the little fuzzy ball of hatred he was to become!! Just jokes Michael, your still one of my hero's.
How the hell do they go about re-surfacing something like that? (Why is another question to be discussed further down the track) Do they run a bit of Reo & pour 100mm of conc on it, screed as usual? Does this mean it would lose the kinks & gnarlyness & come out smooth like a new park albiet tighter curve? Perhaps that could be interesting but does raise Mick's question as if the money would have been best spent on something new all together. $150k seems like an awful lot for a bandaid.
Michael Mulhall 15:20 10/Aug/06
I look at it this way Jess. All my life I have been as nice as anyone can be to a fellow being. Life taught me patience and tolerence. At a few points in my life people tested my lessons for beyond their boundaries.
I guess at some point I had to stop kidding myself and release all my anger. It's finding the right moment for those releases that's difficult.
It's bad enough that I feel some people I concidered friends have made me feel so unjustly treaded, but to see some of the things those people do affect the general skateboarding community just urges me to release on em.
I'm sick of seeing things that are supposed to be good for skateboarding turn into disasters.
Noble Jess 23:47 10/Aug/06
Sorry Mick, I was definatly kidding. You earn my respect for your opinions because you put your name to them.
On another note, I hope we can continue our conversation about boards when I get back from the US. I havent written you off yet! You deserve to see out your final phase riding the best quality you can get.
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