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Overview Video Screen Shots Design Plan History Team Design
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Vertigo Design Arenas City Park The park provides most of the challenges
of the streets, minus the cars. It also has the same level of variety as
the skateboard park, although without the smooth transitions from one skate
challenge to the next.
The park features empty fountains, stairs, rails, and curvy statues. Similarly, the park skaters are a mellow group who appear to have drifted over from the Haight. They skate with style and grace and are courteous to moms with strollers.
Curbs, empty fountains, stairs, rails, statues.
Basic object and move points are augmented by style points that emphasize grace. Points are deducted for collisions with other skaters and obstacles. Points are awarded for smoothly executed maneuvers.
The Yups are a happy bunch of weekend skaters. They move in smooth formations from object to object. They don’t catch big air or execute the most demanding of street-skating moves, but there is a sparse poetry to their motion. Keeping up with them yields new skills and reveals useful power ups. The Yups don’t respond directly to aggression, but park rangers are constantly on the prowl for rude skaters.
This overhead view of the city park shows the major points of interest:
Layout Details:
The swimming pool provides smooth curved surfaces for excellent ramp skating. The pool is much deeper than the cement curves of the skateboard park, so it provides a faster ride and more risk. Skaters tackling the pool should be ready for some hard-core skating.
3. Pipe-cleaner sculpture. This structure resembles the famous landmark at Justin Herman plaza. It is small enough to skate on, though. Adventurous skaters can perform ramp moves mid-air between pieces of the sculpture. Treacherous sharp edges and joints make this sculpture a place for wiser skaters to tread carefully.
Those crazy Californians are always conserving water! This big fountain is just as empty as the swimming pool. Its interesting shape provides ripe opportunities for ollies, kick-flips and an endless variety of ramp moves. Getting into the fountain requires a well-timed ollie.
The playground has some unique
surfaces. The children’s slide is a very narrow, very steep ramp. Skating
here for any length of time is bound to attract the attention of the park
rangers, though.
6. Curvy statue. This massive smooth statue is
an ultimate ollie target. It also serves as a good nosegrind / tailgrind
surface. Skaters can launch off of it to catch big air and also ollie completely
over other moving skaters.
7. Park bench. Park benches are skattered all over the park. They are excellent surfaces for practicing railslides, noseslides, tailslides, fifty-fifties, five-ohs and more. Spending too much time grinding across a single park bench will attract the attention of a park ranger. |
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