So, i was wonedering, if there is any decent skate parks in south wales. And i came up with a simple answer..... Yes and NO! there was one in porthcawl.... but its cloed down there is one in newport there is a tidy one in swansea a half pipe in mumbles and a crappy park on aberavon beach (where i live)

Does any one know where any other skate parks are?!

There is A petition for new skate parks in south wales......... id you want a copy, tell me on a_hill_2005@hotmail.co.uk and i will send you a copy. PLZ get 1 from me, if we dont get enough done we cant have any more bigger skate parks. Thanx

Llanishen Skatepark, Eastern Skatepark, Leckwith Skatepark, Caldicot. Thats all i can think off, but there is more.

What Spence said and Chepstow park.

Newport coucil is spending quarter of a million on a new park.

quarter of a million, wow, thats alot.

I always go to this crappy little park in Newport (the little village in pembrokshire) when I go on holiday.

Theyve just shuved a street coures diagonaly across the square yard with no other ramps. Quite shit!

Hmm, never heard of that. You been their trix?

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I had no idea anything like that was going on!

its not definate

Oh Darnit, how definate is it?

i can get funding for a street course and bowld in port talbot the probem is we dont know where in port talbot ( south wales, near neath) to put it does any one have any suggestions?

fuck neath, and dont but it by the beach, lets make it accesable

wheres the new park gona be in newport?

Not that far from Skate Extreme.

Trix, is it outdoor?

Looks like it.

are they definitely gonna built it? or is it just in the planning stage at the moment? would be so sick if it happend!

No plans have been made as of yet, but the area has been cleared for it.

tha funding ideas gone out da window for port talbot

tooooo much hastle neways, id rather pay busfare and go 2 pads in porthcawl on a sunday for 2pound and stick to the crappy street course on da beach front on weekdays. duz ne1 kno nething bout da street course in swansea?

There's Hanger 81 in Bargoed (about 25 mins from Cardiff) http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/hanger81/hanger81.htm which is pretty good, indoors and normally quite quiet.

There's also going to be a £250k park soon in Aberdare (again about 30 mins ish from Cardiff) http://www.aberdareskatepark.wanadoo.co.uk/ Outdoors and concrete - looks like it's gonna be killer!

ye man the swansea street course is good, i always skate it.

what do you wanna know

Alex, you gonna plan another trip to Cardiff ?

If So, Can i come?

ill be at llanishen park 2moro from about 3pm hopefully.

Spence, I'm thinking of planning a trip up to Chepstow in half-term, fancy coming?

yeah, is it outdoor?

Yeah. I'll try and find some pics of it later.

Goody.

r they?

Ment to be, dunno if its still going ahead though.

ignore this,im blind and cant read dates!

Theres sposed to be a new skate park in east Britton Ferry but i dunno where the hell it is

anybody kno?

Never heard of the place.

There building a new one at the Knap.

Good, because the one there is absolutely bollocks.

The main indoor park in Bridgend Recreation Centre has now closed down forever. It's a shame because that park was great.

However, in the car park under the recreation centre, they have a small street setup there in the nights from 6-10 apart from weekends.

This is just a rumor but there is supposed to be some kind of 'Skate Plaza' coming to Bridgend. I hope it's true as it'll be great getting a new place to skate.

Anyway, there's a skate park in Maesteg about a 2 minute walk away from my house. It's quite small but it's good enough. It's built out of this hard concrete stuff which means it will be around for a while and won't rot away.

It has 3 flatbanks, 2 quarterpipes, a small roll-in, a small spine, a pyramid, a funbox, a manual box and a hand rail. Not to mention the 'mushroom hut' there where all random chavs hang out drinking, shouting stuff at you.

If any of you plan on going there, just find the old blast furnace next to the leisure centre and walk up those huge set of steps. It's agony getting to the top.

But the thing that pisses me off about our skate park is that there's shitloads of land in that area and only about one fifth is being used.

Several rumors have been going around about the free land. Some people have said it's going to be a dirt track, others have said they're putting a bowl there and other people have said there's going to be a basketball court there but I hope not as that will interfere with the skate park a lot.

Anyway, there's a couple more things I would like to find out.

First of all, where is the Porthcawl indoor skate park and when is it open? I've heard it's in the old Jennings warehouse.

Secondly, people have been saying that the skatepark opposite the Quadrant shopping centre in Swansea is closed. Is this true?

Thanks for all your help and I hope that I have been a help!

I thought the Rec was only open in the summer.

Yeah it was. Usually, it would be open every Summer but a few months ago, they held their last annual skate jam. Now it's shut down forever due to undisclosed reasons.

Altogether now.


Bugger.

Indeed.

hmm that street course from 6-10 sounds worth checking out,ill be going up there in a few wks

heal knee,damn you

there's a new one in ferndale and a small outdoor one in ystrad rhondda and a small outdoor one in tonypandy