Productive, creative individuals willing to take risks have always been essential in the skate scene. The actions of these individuals at times have helped shape this culture and provide important footsteps in our history and have been the catalyst for some our our best (and worst) memories.
Grey Lynn's Dale Sutton is one of these individuals trying to create some memories and add another interesting chapter to New Zealand skate history by creating a temporary, skater built skate park in the unused 'hole' in Ponsonby.
Skaters have a uncanny sense for turning something unusable to others into something that means so much to another group of people- some of you may remember skating the abandoned waterpark (pools) on Leisure Island at the mount, skating the unused 'oriental markets' the list goes on and on.
On a smaller scale I think street skating is based on using your environment in a different way be it from dumping a wooden pallet on the ground for a manual pad to mixing up a bag of concrete at 3am to create the perfect bump to ledge set up. You can also look overseas for examples of larger scale projects such as Burnside. This is what keeps skateboarding fresh, original and most importantly dangerous.
This is a chance for us to come together as a scene, culture, community (call it what you will) and work together on something productive, make some friends outside of Facebook for once, (I heard its called 'networking' nowadays), share our ideas and create something killer! Its a chance to prove to others that skaters are not just lazy, unproductive kids but a community with ideas and the balls to make them happen.
So, close Facies already, meet your homies and get building something to bring- even if its just a old sheet of plywood in your dads garage (we are creative- we will find a use for it) and email Dale at: ponsonbyskatepark@gmail.com and share your ideas with him.
Get behind this and one day you may just be sitting in your wheelchair in the retirement village telling your Grandson skaterat how you were part of NZ skate history popping nollie flips in 'THE HOLE' .
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